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The flight data and voice recorders showed "everything was normal" until both failed at 24 minutes after takeoff, pointing to "a very sudden explosive decompression," one source said.

His crew replied that they were operating in accordance with international law, and intended to transit past the island, carrying out what US officials have called a freedom-of-navigation exercise designed to challenge China's claims to the strategic wate...

The taxus chinensis tree (a species of yew) was found in Shunhuangshan National Forest Park in Dong'an County in the city of Yongzhou.

On Wednesday, Maldives President Abdulla Yameen had declared a state of emergency, giving sweeping powers to security forces to arrest suspects ahead of a major anti-government protest rally, his spokesman said.

The bomber attacked the police club, killing five conscripts and wounding ten others, including five civilians, in the provincial capital El-Arish, officials said.

Twelve trucks carrying petrol from China on Monday entered Nepal through Rasuwagadhi trading point.

US is committed to strengthen its bilateral relationship with India, a top American official said.

India's Deputy High Commissioner JP Singh was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here by Director General, South Asia and SAARC, Muhammad Faisal, to lodge a protest over the "ceasefire violations by India", a Pakistan Foreign Office statement sai...

Clinton's appearance before the panel follows months of controversy about her use of a private home email server for her State Department work, a disclosure that emerged in part because of the Benghazi committee's demand in 2014 to see her official record...

The US has categorically ruled out any role for itself in Indo-Pak peace process unless both the countries jointly ask for it, according to a senior official who asserted that the best way to resolve issues is through direct dialogue between the two neigh...

Speaking to reporters at the Indian Embassy, India's Ambassador to Nepal Ranjt Rae said that Thapa, during his three-day visit to New Delhi, discussed with Indian leaders the upcoming visit of Oli. Rae, however, said the date of the visit is yet to be fin...

The USD 10 billion TAPI, Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India, project is expected to bring Turkmen natural gas from its giant Dauletabad and Galkynysh gas fields to Pakistan and India. The project is likely to take off in December.

The agreement was jointly signed by Pakistan Petroleum Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak in a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

The colour images of Pluto obtained with New Horizon's Multi-spectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) show a wide range of colours across Pluto's surface - from dark, red regions at the equator to brighter, bluer regions at higher latitudes.

The Supreme Court started regular hearing of the compliant in 2012 but only partially unfolded it by asking the government to start a proper probe into the scandal. After wasting another three years, the current government has asked FIA to probe it.