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Jakarta: An earthquake shook Indonesia's main island of Java Monday, killing at least 46 people, damaging dozens of buildings and sending residents into the capital's streets for safety. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 5.6 quake was centered in the Cianjur region in West...

Sharm El-Sheikh: Negotiators early Sunday approved a historic deal that would create a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries' carbon pollution, but an overall larger agreement still was up in the air because of a fight...

Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt): Negotiators say they have struck a potential breakthrough deal on the thorniest issue of United Nations climate talks, the creation of a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich nations' carbon pollution. “There is...

Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt): With tempers and temperatures rising, United Nations climate talks slogged into overtime Saturday, looking increasingly deadlocked over key issues such as funds for poor vulnerable countries smacked by extreme weather. “We're in limbo land,” said David Waskow, international climate director for the...

United Nations: France has reaffirmed its support for India, Germany, Brazil and Japan as permanent members in an expanded UN Security Council, underlining the need to take into account the emergence of new powers willing and able to assume the responsibility of a permanent presence...

New Delhi: The BCCI Friday sacked the four-member senior national selection committee led by Chetan Sharma after the Indian cricket team failed to reach the final of the T20 World Cup in Australia. During Chetan's tenure, India had also failed to reach knock-out stage in...

Karachi: At least 20 people, including 12 children were killed after a van fell into a deep ditch filled with water in Pakistan's flood-hit Sindh province. The incident took place Thursday when the passenger van carrying devotees, including women and children, heading towards Sehwan Sharif...

New Delhi: The United Nations published a first draft of the climate deal on Thursday and it doesn't mention a phase down of all fossil fuels, a proposal that was put forward by India and supported by the European Union and many other countries. The draft...

New Delhi: Aftab Ameen Poonawalla has confessed to investigators that it took him 10 hours to chop his live-in partner's body into 35 different pieces and that he had burnt her face until it was unrecognizable, informed sources said. AS the investigation is still underway,...

New Delhi: G20 leaders in Bali Wednesday literally endorsed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, that "Today's era must not be of war". Adopted as Bali Declaration at the end of the G20 summit in the Indonesian city, it can be...