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Guatemala, May 24: A 16-year-old girl was mercilessly beaten and burned to death by a group of vigilante mob in Guatemala. The incident reportedly took place in the village of Rio Bravo, near the capital Guatemala City. The video, which was uploaded on YouTube was viewed several times before it was finally removed. The anonymous girl, accused of killing a 68-year-old taxi driver, reportedly took a

Washington, May 18: At least nine people were killed and 18 injured in a shootout between rival biker gangs in Texas' Waco city on Sunday afternoon, police said on Monday. The shootout occurred in a parking lot between the Twin Peaks and Don Carlos restaurants shortly after noon, said local television station News Channel 25. All the dead - eight of whom died at the scene, the ninth in a local

Kabul, May 14: The Taliban on Thursday claimed responsibility for an attack during a concert at a Kabul guesthouse that left 14 people dead including four Indians and an American. "It was a suicide mission carried out by one of our mujaheddin from Logar. The attack was planned carefully to target the party in which important people and Americans were attending," the militants said in a statement

Karachi, May 13: At least 47 people were killed in Pakistan's Karachi on Wednesday when armed men entered a packed bus and opened fire. Reports suggest 25 men and 16 women have been killed. There were around 60 passengers, including children, on the bus. Witnesses say six men came on three motorbikes, entered the bus and fired indiscriminately for nearly 10 minutes. Most passengers were reportedly

London, May 12: Prime Minister David Cameron today promoted one of Britain's most prominent Indian-origin MPs Priti Patel by making her the new Employment Minister, as he continued to give finishing touches to his first all- Conservative Cabinet. Patel, who was re-elected from Witham in Essex with a big majority in the May 7 general election, will take charge as the new Employment Minister of

Kathmandu, May 13: A powerful earthquake jolted mountainous Nepal on Tuesday, killing at least 66 people, including 17 in India and one in Chinese Tibet, bringing down buildings and triggering landslide less than three weeks after a devastating temblor left a swathe of destruction in the Himalayan nation. Hundreds of terrified people rushed out of their homes and buildings toppled as the 7.3

Sydney, May 5: A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea today, sending frightened residents fleeing from their homes, but a threatened tsunami passed without incident, seismologists said. The quake struck 133 kilometres (83 miles) south-southwest of the town of Kokopo in the New Britain region at a depth of 63 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said, and was followed by a 5.9

Kathmandu, Apr 28: The death toll in the devastating earthquake that has rocked Nepal climbed to over 4,350 today with more than 8,000 others injured, as Prime Minister Sushil Koirala admitted that the rescue and relief operations have not been effective. Crisis loomed over quake-hit Nepal with an acute shortage of food, water, electricity and medicines as fear of another quake kept tens of

Kathmandu, Apr 27: The death toll from the 7.9 magnitude temblor that struck Nepal was on Monday placed at 3,815, with Kathmandu accounting for nearly 1,000 deaths. The home ministry said in a statement another 6,515 people had been injured. The Saturday earthquake, the worst to hit Nepal after 1934, had its epicentre in Gorkha district. The highest death toll of 1,021 among all districts was

Santiago, April 23: About 4,000 people were evacuated after the Calbuco volcano in Chile erupted for the first time in more than four decades, a media report said on Thursday. The eruption on Wednesday sent a thick plume of ash and smoke several kilometres into the sky, television images showed, Al Jazeera reported. Chile's Onemi emergency office declared a red alert following the eruption, which