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London/Edinburgh: It would be impossible to hold a legal and decisive referendum on Scottish independence in the timeframe demanded by First Minister Nicola...

Rome: The Italian government won a confidence vote in the Senate on Wednesday on a fiercely contested reform of the justice system aimed at preventing...

Karachi/Peshawar: Fast-growing Pakistan, estimated to be the sixth-largest country by population, kicked off its first national census in 19 years on...

New York: A late-season snowstorm that swept the mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States began to weaken on Wednesday after killing six people,...

Beirut: Two suicide bomb attacks killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens more in Damascus on Wednesday, state media reported, in the second such spate...

Manila: Eleven Philippine legislators who voted against a bill to re-introduce capital punishment lost key posts in the country's Congress on Wednesday,...

Jaipur: A Sukhoi aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed in the western Indian state of Rajasthan's Barmer district on Wednesday, leaving three...

Tripoli: Armed groups aligned with a U.N.-backed government in Tripoli took over a compound occupied by a self-declared rival prime minister in heavy...

Kolhapur: The set of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film Padmavati was vandalised on Wednesday by unidentified persons at Mhasai Pathar in Kolhapur district....

Mosul: Iraqi government forces battling IS for Mosul took control of a main bridge over the Tigris river on Wednesday and advanced towards the mosque,...