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Chinese relatives of passengers aboard missing flight MH370, on Friday demanded to be taken to the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, where a wing part was found that the Malaysian government said was from the plane.

A powerful car bomb in Kabul killed at least seven people and wounded dozens of others, officials said, the first major attack in the Afghan capital since the announcement of Taliban leader Mullah Omar's death.

China is tightening controls on exports of some drones and powerful computers and will require firms to register to ensure they do not "compromise national security", state media reported Sunday. From August 15, manufacturers of certain powerful drones...

A potential hike in US interest rates dims the appeal of non-interest bearing assets such as gold.

Kuwait has broken up a new five-member cell of alleged members of the Islamic State jihadist group one month after a deadly bombing at a Shiite mosque, the interior ministry said on Thursday.

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday extended his condolences on the death of former president APJ Abdul Kalam, saying he was an inspiration to millions who worked to deepen space cooperation between the two countries.

A first-hand report from the streets of Athens and the Greek islands as ordinary Greeks grapple with the “new normal”

In a gruesome find, archaeologists have unearthed remains of 97 human bodies stuffed into a 5,000 year-old small house, possibly killed in an epidemic of some sort, in northeast China.

Describing him as one of the most "exuberant boosters" of India's nuclear capabilities, the US media on Tuesday highlighted the contribution of 'missile man' A P J Abdul Kalam to the country's atomic and space programme.

MERS infection is linked to the same family of coronaviruses that triggered a deadly outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003.

A shootout at a wedding party in northern Afghanistan has left 21 people dead and another 10 wounded, an official said on Monday.

India need not worry about China's military expansion in the Maldives under its new law allowing foreigners to own land as the communist nation has no policy to build overseas naval bases but its firms may take up land for commercial use, state-run media...

Bringing out an austerity package, Russian President Vladimir Putin fired nearly 110,000 officials of the Ministry of Interior. He had signed a decree last week limiting the number of officials in the Ministry which would reduce the total workforce by 10...

A criminal investigation has been sought to determine whether US Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's use of personal email account as the secretary of state resulted in mishandling of sensitive government information, a media report said on Friday.

The decision to bring in a two-child policy seems to have been driven by growing public opposition to family planning laws.

Shares fell on Wednesday, dragged down by disappointment over US and European corporate earnings, most notably at Apple Inc, the world's largest company.