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Paris: France's top appeals court dealt a blow to Nicolas Sarkozy's hopes of a presidential comeback on Tuesday when it ruled that wiretaps of his...

Geneva/Lesbos: The United Nations refugee agency dealt a blow to EU efforts to stem the biggest humanitarian crisis in generations on Tuesday, saying it...

Donetsk (Russia): A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to 22 years in jail after finding her guilty of involvement in the...

Johannesburg: South Africa's anti-corruption watchdog may seek state funding to speed up its investigation into a growing scandal over President Jacob...

Chandigarh: Haryana government on Tuesday ordered a judicial inquiry to probe the conspiracy behind the incidents which pushed the state into unprecedented...

Dar Es Salaam: Tanzanian authorities have launched a national audit to find "ghost workers" and remove them from civil service payrolls under a...

Lahore: Pakistan's first women-only rickshaw service was meant to provide its staff with a new way of gaining financial independence and its passengers...

New Delhi: Panic gripped passengers at the Indira Gandhi international airport on Tuesday after the Jet Airways call centre received threats about bombs in...

Seville (Spain): Howard Jackson, a man of around 40 from the West African state of Liberia, is a well-known and colourful figure at a busy intersection...

New Delhi: Asserting that SC/ST people are equally competent to do private jobs, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Tuesday asked the industry to...