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Israel made nearly 200 airstrikes in Gaza early Saturday, the Israeli military said, destroying the prime minister's headquarters.

At least 49 school children were killed and 11 others injured when a train collided with a school bus carrying children to their school in southern Egypt on Saturday, Egypt's official state news agency said.

A Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) textbook for Class 6 students which says the non-vegetarians cheat, lie and commit sex crimes has stirred a controversy in India.

Scientists have discovered stone-tipped spears used 500,000 years ago, indicating that man had mastered the technology of hafting 200,000 years earlier than previously believed.

India has ordered a probe into the alleged foreign exchange rule violations by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the country, according to media reports which quoted law enforcement officials.

In his farewell speech Wednesday after a 23-year-long stint in the Congress, Texas Republican Ron Paul criticized the successive governments for failing the Constitution.

James Holmes, the accused in the Colorado Theater shootings, was taken to the hospital Wednesday for an unspecified medical condition that has rendered him unfit to attend a courtroom trial scheduled two days later, his lawyers said in the court. However, the local media reports suggest that Holmes tried to harm himself.

The crisis in the near-bankrupt Kingfisher Airlines compounded Tuesday as the private Indian air carrier failed to pay the pending salaries for the month of May to its over 3,000 employees before Diwali, as promised.

Diwali, the festival of lights, is being celebrated in India with joy and fervor Tuesday. The five-day festival is celebrated all over the country by lighting lamps, bursting crackers, offering prayers to Goddess Lakhsmi -- the goddess of wealth -- and by performing the traditional rituals.

Mitt Romney, who lost the presidential elections to Barack Obama, is fast losing his fans in the virtual world. Romney’s online friends started abandoning the friendship as soon as the former conceded defeat.

Iran Monday launched a massive four-day defense exercise even as tensions mounted in the Gulf after the U.S. accused that country of firing at a drone last week.

After laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to mark the Veterans Day Sunday, President Barack Obama pledged support to the veterans and said their needs would be met.

At least two people were killed and several others were injured, Saturday late night, in a massive fire explosion in the U.S. city of Indianapolis.

BBC Director General George Entwistle resigned his job Saturday, after the state–funded broadcaster apologized for falsely accusing a top politician of child-sex abuse in one of its flagship program.

A powerful earthquake hit the city of Shwebo in central Myanmar early Sunday leaving at least five people dead and several others missing.

The United Kingdom would phase out giving financial aid to India by 2015, signaling a significant shift in the bilateral ties between both the countries, the British government announced Friday.

Mitt Romney's campaign staff preparing to head back home were in for a shock late on election night, as they found their campaign credit cards cancelled.

Honoring Malala Yousufzai, the teen Pakistani activist who was shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban for advocating girls’ education, the United Nations will observe Nov 10 -- that that marks 30-days after the attack on her -- as the “Malala Day.”

Malala Yousufzai, a 15-year-old Pakistani activist who was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman, has thanked her sympathizers for their support and prayers while thousands of campaigners from the UK and elsewhere called on the government to nominate the teen activist for the Nobel Peace Prize.

United Kingdom's Diageo Plc is likely to announce a deal Friday to buy a 51 percent stake in India’s liquor major United Spirits for $1.8 billion.

A powerful earthquake in Guatemala Wednesday killed at least 48 and injured many others while several others are feared trapped under the rubble of buildings.

Six Tibetans in various regions in China committed self-immolation Wednesday, a day before the start of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Beijing.

Barack Obama’s supporters across the world are rejoicing in his re-election to the White House, and a small tribe in a remote Indian village believes they have more reasons to celebrate.

At least 100 people were missing after a boat carrying about Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar capsized in the Bay of Bengal Wednesday, Reuters reported quoting a Bangladeshi border force officer.

Barack Obama has won the election with a comfortable margin and is set to embark on his second tenure at the White House. In a presidential race that was tight till the end with volatile opinion poll results indicating a cliffhanger, Obama has come out as a clear winner.

Voters in two tiny hamlets, Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location in New Hampshire, became the first citizens to cast their votes in the 2012 presidential elections Tuesday. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney tied with five votes each in Dixville Notch while Obama won 23 of the 33 votes cast in Hart’s Location.

Americans will heave a sigh of relief Nov. 6 as Election Day marks the end to exhausting yearlong presidential campaigns. To encourage voting, several shops and organizations are offering a host of freebies or Election Day specials Tuesday.

NASA has launched an app to commemorate the twelfth anniversary of astronomers continuously living and working abroad the International Space Station. The app alerts the people when the ISS passes over their homes.

India's service sector recorded its slowest growth in six months as the economic slowdown in the U.S. and Europe resulted in a slump in new orders, the latest HSBC Purchasing Managers’ Index data released Monday show.