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A Japanese skating rink that froze 5,000 dead fish into the ice as an attraction for visitors has been forced to close after receiving a barrage of criticism.

There was no immediate report of any damage or casualty.

Cab driver, who pretended to be a doctor, to impress Muslim women including from Pakistan secretly filmed himself having sex with them to extort money.

Cuba declared nine days of public mourning on Saturday for its late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, and said his ashes will be buried at a ceremony on December 4 in Santiago de Cuba.

Pakistan on Saturday decided to accord approval to a Russian request for using the Gwadar Port for its exports as Moscow has also showed its willingness to be part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

US President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he intends to nominate Betsy DeVos, a wealthy Republican campaigner for alternatives to public schools, as his education secretary.

China continued to set the pace for patent applications last year, filing a record 1 million that nearly all focused on its giant home market, the U.N.'s intellectual property agency said Wednesday.

South Carolina's Indian-American Governor Nikki Haley was selected by US President-elect Donald Trump as Ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday, said US media reports.

A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan on Tuesday, briefly disrupting cooling functions at a nuclear plant and generating a tsunami that hit the same region devastated by a massive quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011.

"This is not the apocalypse," US President Barack Obama reportedly told staffers at the White House which bore the look of a "funeral home" after Donald Trump's stunning electoral win.

President-elect Donald Trump and his deputy Mike Pence are true friends of Israel in the US, the top Israeli diplomat in America has said.

Nawaz Sharif termed the "killing of civilians and soldiers along the LoC" as "another act of aggression that warrants international attention".

A week after he was elected in a historic election, the President-elect is yet to name a member of his Cabinet.

Excavators arrived early with Israeli soldiers to the East Jerusalem districts of Silwan and Jabal Mukkaber, where they demolished agricultural structures.

A Muslim woman in the US was approached by an unidentified man who yelled at her and threatened to set her on fire if she did not remove her hijab, prompting police to probe the hate crime incident.

U.S. journalist Gwen Ifill, who co-anchored "The PBS NewsHour," wrote a best-seller about President Barack Obama and moderated two vice presidential election debates, died on Monday