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The US and its allies allegedly granted "secret" exemptions to Iran in last year's landmark agreement that sought to curb the Islamic country's nuclear program: Report

The United Nations will begin providing peacekeeping troops with 'no excuses' cards as part of a wider effort to combat sexual abuse in the organisation's international stabilisation operations.

The survey of 1,668 adults also showed that some 46 per cent of British people would also support a similar ban on the burkini, against 30 per cent who were opposed to it.

Navinkumar Patel, from Kansas City, stabbed his wife with a pocketknife as she ate a bowl of cereal, and subsequently told police he had done it because his wife was "overweight".

The GKNB state security service said it was investigating the blast but provided no other details.

The coalition intervened in Yemen in March last year and has helped government troops push the rebels out of Aden and four other southern provinces. But authorities have been struggling to secure these provinces.

NASA is planning to send a submarine to Saturn's moon Titan in a bid to explore the depths of its largest ocean and search for signs of life.

At least 367 people have been hospitalised with injuries but no one has been pulled alive from the piles of collapsed masonry since Wednesday evening.

An Asian-American student has filed a complaint over being 'unfairly' rejected by Columbia University and Cornell University, prompting a coalition to seek a probe over allegedly discriminating against him and an Indian-American.

Some lawmakers in Canada's Quebec province have called for outlawing "burkinis" -- body-concealing Islamic swimsuits -- following bans in at least 15 towns in France's southeast.

Two Indian-American women have been selected for the prestigious White House Fellow programme that offers first-hand experience of working at the highest levels of the US federal government.

Turkish authorities scrambled on Tuesday to identify a child suicide bomber acting on the orders of Islamic State jihadists who killed 54 people at a Kurdish wedding.

The UN has used World Humanitarian Day to plead for help for Libya, saying millions of Libyans and migrants were engulfed in a worsening crisis.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere came out today in favour of a partial burqa ban amid a fierce national debate on integration. "We agree that we reject the burqa, we agree that we want to introduce a legal requirement to show one's face in plac...

On the sidelines of the G-20 Summit, Obama among others is likely to meet Modi, which would be the eighth meeting between the two leaders after he became Prime Minister in May 2014.

Man arrested after brutally murdering an elderly couple and chewing one of the victims' faces like cannibal.