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Last Saturday's quake, the worst in nearly seven decades, injured around 12,500 people and left 130 missing along the country's ravaged Pacific coast.

The Guggenheim Museum will install the fully functional, 18-karat solid gold toilet by Maurizio Cattelan in one of its public bathroom stalls.

The US Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation involving the leaked Panama Papers on offshore shell companies.

Cuba's former president Fidel Castro attends the closing ceremony of the seventh Cuban Communist Party (PCC) congress in Havana, Cuba.

The exact number of casualties remained unclear as rescue efforts continued to unfold on Saturday.

The envoy said India is "not forthcoming" in resuming comprehensive dialogue with Pakistan.

The number of children involved in 'suicide' attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger has risen sharply over the past year, from four in 2014 to 44 in 2015

Pakistan Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman said the addition of the JF-17 aircraft built at Kamra airbase with the support of China would strengthen the tactical and surveillance capabilities of the PAF.

A senior police officer said that in all there were five explosions: the three suicide bombers and one grenade, but that the cause of the fifth blast was not immediately known.

The tower will be slender, evoking the image of a minaret, and will be anchored to the ground with sturdy cables, Emaar said.

Many Americans believe the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan on August 6, 1945, and on the Japanese city of Nagasaki three days later were justified and hastened the end of the war.

"This discovery defied our understanding of how faults accumulate and release stress over time," Sylvain Barbot, from NTU's Asian School of the Environment said.

The Tower in Dubai Creek Harbour, a 6-square-kilometer master development, will be a notch higher than 828-metre Burj Khalifa, property developer Emaar said.

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy had on Wednesday sought External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s urgent help to secure release of Regi Joseph.

A millionaire English teacher was seen removing a blouse from a hanger from a shop in US, rolled it up and placed it in a bag she was carrying. (Image for representational purpose only)