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PARIS: From round disks to oval clusters; many galaxies in the Universe have undergone a dramatic transformation over the past eight billion years...

UNITED NATIONS:  The Palestinians on Thursday asked the United Nations to allow their flag to be raised at the world body ahead of...

SAN FRANCISCO: - Apple Inc on Thursday invited journalists to a Sept 9 event, where it is expected to unveil new iPhones and...

SRINAGAR:   Soldiers killed four suspected rebels and captured another during a day-long gun battle in Indian Kashmir near the border dividing the region...

OTTAWA:  Fighting to liberalize booze sales, Canadian drinkers and distillers argued in separate legal challenges this week against "unconstitutional" restrictions on the sale...

Student protesters Joshua Wong (left) and Nathan Law (centre) talk to the media outside the Wanchai police station in Hong Kong, yesterday.   Hong...

KARACHI: A Pakistani anti-corruption court yesterday issued an arrest warrant for former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, in a case alleging millions of...

ISLAMABAD: After a year of restraint over the blatant violation of the Right to Information (RTI) law by the highest constitutional office of...

Members of the Communist Party of India (Marxists) grapple with police during a farmers rally in Kolkata, yesterday. Kolkata: A farmers’ rally called...

Army troops clear road blocks left by protesters in Ahmedabad, yesterday.   Ahmedabad: Ravaged by violence since last Tuesday, Gujarat limped back to normalcy...

A girl cries at the yard of a school sheltering people displaced by Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen’s northwestern province of Saada, in...

  GAZA/RAMALLAH: President Mahmoud Abbas is acting to shake up Palestinian politics with peace talks with Israel in deep freeze and unity efforts with...

Students pose for a selfie as they celebrate Onam at a college campus in Chennai, yesterday.   New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee and Vice...

People drive past piles of garbage in the area of Jal Al Dib in the northern outskirts of the Lebanese capital Beirut, yesterday....

A Syrian migrant runs after crossing under a fence as he enters Hungary, at the border with Serbia, near Roszke, yesterday.   Baghdad: A...

  VIENNA: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that everyone had been "shaken" by news that up to 50 migrants had been found...

ATHENS:  Greece on Thursday named its top judge as caretaker prime minister to organise early elections expected next month, the fifth in the...

BANGKOK: A Thai court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for a man over a blast near a Bangkok pier last week which...