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Oslo: An Argentine research base near the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula has set a heat record at a balmy 17.5 degrees Celsius (63.5° Fahrenheit),...

Dubai: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan agreed on Wednesday to improve ties, including in the fight against...

New Delhi: Holding of more than 10 notes of the junked Rs500 and Rs1,000 currency is now illegal, with a new law coming into effect after the...

Washington: Twitter Inc on Wednesday launched a wider effort to use algorithms to identify accounts as potentially engaging in abusive behaviour, a...

Lucknow: Campaigning will come to a close in 49 Assembly seats in seven districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh going to polls in the sixth phase on March 4,...

Geneva: Both sides in the battle for Aleppo committed war crimes, including Syrian government aircraft that "deliberately" bombed and strafed a...

New Delhi: Buoyed by higher-than-expected GDP growth, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said a 7 per cent expansion in third quarter belies...

Lisbon: A former CIA officer convicted for involvement in the kidnap of an Egyptian cleric in Italy won a last-minute reprieve from deportation from...

Paris: Conservative French presidential candidate Francois Fillon vowed to stay in the presidential race on Wednesday despite a magistrate's intention...

Oslo: Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik lost a human rights case on Wednesday when an appeals court overturned a lower court finding that his...