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Best foot forward: Thai elephant gets her ninth prosthetic leg
In Picture: Motola, the elephant that was injured by a landmine, wears her prosthetic leg at the Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation in...
Chile beat Colombia 2-0 to set up final against Argentina
In Picture:Â Colombia forward Roger Martinez (9) and Chile defender Gonzalo Jara (18) fight for the ball during the first half in the semifinals of...
Germany beat Northern Ireland to advance as group winners
In Picture:Â Germany's Mario Gomez celebrates after scoring their first goal
Paris, June 22, 2016: Germany showed more of their usual class when Mario Gomez's first-half...
#Breaking News: Suicide bomber kills at least 14 in Afghan capital
In Picture:Â Afghan security forces inspect the damage of a minibus that was hit by a suicide attacker at the site of the incident in...
Capsule carrying space station crew lands in Kazakhstan
In Picture:Â A Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft capsule carrying International Space Station (ISS) crew members, Timothy Peake of Britain, Yuri Malenchenko of Russia and Timothy Kopra...
Never too old to learn; Nepal’s 68-year-old student
In Picture:Â Durga Kami, 68, and his classmates pose for a group picture in their classroom at Shree Kala Bhairab Higher Secondary School in Syangja,...
Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion
California, June 13, 2016:Â Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) agreed to buy LinkedIn Corp (LNKD.N) for $26.2 billion in its biggest-ever deal, combining the software giant's fast-growing...
Protesters to decry Stanford rape sentence at graduation ceremony
June 12, 2016:
Students and rights groups plan to demonstrate at Stanford University's commencement on Sunday to express outrage over the 6-month jail sentence handed...
U.S. takes more steps to block North Korea’s access to financial...
In Picture: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a photo session with the participants in the Seventh Congress of the WPK in this...
Pakistan bans contraceptive advertisements on TV and radio
Islamabad (Pakistan), May 29, 2016:Â Pakistan has banned advertisements for contraceptive products on television and radio over concern that they expose inquisitive children to the...
Dubai says opens world’s first functioning 3D-printed office
Pic. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, signs on the board during the...
Hunger, child marriage, prostitution – India drought hurts women, low-caste Dalits...
Pic. Cracked soil at Manjara Dam is seen in Osmanabad, Maharashtra, April 17, 2016.
Mumbai, May 24, 2016:Â India's worst drought in decades is hurting women and...
U.S. consumers buck investors’ rush to self-driving cars : study
Pic. The rear of a Lexus SUV equipped with Google self-driving sensors is seen during a media preview of Google's prototype autonomous vehicles in Mountain...
Developers look to widen repertoire of Pepper, Japan’s laughing robot
Kathmandu,May 20,2016: Japanese developers of a robot are asking the public to come up with ideas for what their waist-high humanoid can do and...
China demands end to US surveillance after aircraft intercept
WASHINGTON/BEIJING May 20,2016: Beijing demanded an end to US surveillance near China on Thursday after two of its fighter jets carried out what the...
Microsoft to sell feature phone business to Foxconn subsidiary, HMD Global
Redmond (Washington), May 18, 2016: Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said it is selling its entry-level feature phone assets to FIH Mobile Ltd and HMD Global...
Cities ‘woefully unprepared’ for rising disaster risk
London, May 17, 2016:Â Cities around the world are failing to plan for fast-increasing risks from extreme weather and other hazards, particularly as population growth...
‘The Wire’ actor Pierce arrested after scuffle over Democratic politics.
Kathmandu,May 17,2016:Actor Wendell Pierce, who starred in HBO's "The Wire," was arrested in Atlanta over the weekend and charged with battery after an altercation...
Poo-powered pumps help Pakistan farmers grow richer, greener
Fateh Jhang (Pakistan), May 16, 2016:Â For farmer Mujahid Abbasi, switching the power source for his irrigation pump from diesel to biogas has brought economic...
Iraq takes aim at media as security forces struggle to contain...
Baghdad, May 15, 2016:Â Iraq's Shi'ite-led authorities have shut the offices of two television channels popular with Sunni Iraqis and ordered a satirical show off...
China eyes $724 billion of transport investment over next three years
pic. Blooming flowers are seen along a highway in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China, March 15, 2016.
Beijing, May 12, 2016:Â China will invest around 4.7 trillion yuan...
Baby pulled out alive three days after collapse of Kenya building
Nairobi, March 04, 2016:Â Rescue workers pulled a six-month-old baby girl out of the rubble of a building in Kenya's capital on Tuesday and reunited...
Solar-powered plane lands in Arizona on round-the-world flight
Los Angeles, May 03, 2016:Â A solar-powered airplane midway through a historic bid to circle the globe completed the 10th leg of its journey on...
Singapore holds eight Bangladeshis for planning terror attacks in home country
Singapore, May 03, 2016:Â Singapore has detained eight Bangladeshi men planning to stage terror attacks in their home country as the Islamic State in Bangladesh...
