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Beijing, Apr 20: At least 72 people were killed and hundreds of others injured today when a powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked southwest China's Sichuan province causing massive destruction. The quake hit Lushan county of Ya'an city in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 8:02 am local time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter of the earthquake was

Islamabad, Apr 19: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was arrested from his farmhouse on Friday in a case relating to sacking of judges, a day after he dramatically fled the court to avoid detention, and remanded to two days in custody, becoming the first ex-army chief to face such action. Police officials arrested the 69-year-old former military strongman on Friday morning and took him to

Bali, Apr 13: A passenger jet operated by budget airline Lion Air — which recently sealed blockbuster orders for new planes — missed the runway at Bali airport Saturday and landed in the sea but everybody on board survived. The Boeing jet carrying more than 100 passengers missed the runway as it came in to land in good weather conditions at Denpasar airport on the Indonesian resort island

Afghanistan, Apr 8: A Nato air attack in eastern Afghanistan killed 11 children, officials said on Sunday, the latest case of civilian casualties which provoke great anger in the war-torn country. The children were killed during a joint Afghan-Nato operation in the Shigal district of restive Kunar province bordering Pakistan late on Saturday. The latest strike comes after at least five Americans

New York, Mar 10: Two commercial jets have been damaged in the aviation equivalent of a fender-bender at New York's Kennedy airport. Nobody was reported injured in the accident, which happened at around 6:15 a.m. on Saturday. A JetBlue spokesman says a plane carrying around 150 passengers bound for West Palm Beach, Florida, had become temporarily disabled due to a problem with its tow bar and was

Male, Mar 5: Former Maldivian president Mohammed Nasheed was arrested Tuesday, causing a fresh uproar and protests in this capital city. Nasheed was arrested just outside his house by around 20 police personnel, who took him away without an explanation, Xinhua news agency reported citing Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) spokesperson Hameed Abdul Gafoor. "They just took him. We do not

Dhaka, Mar 3(DPA): At least four people were killed on the fourth day of rioting in Bangladesh on Sunday after an Islamist opposition leader was sentenced to death for war crimes, police said. Soldiers were deployed after protesters torched police posts, a railway station and other government facilities in the northern district of Bogra during a strike called by the opposition. Protesters and

Jeddah, Jan 26: Saudi businessman Dr. Adel Batterjee, whose name was removed from the list of the Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee recently, said he has known Osama Bin Laden for long, from the time he was in Jeddah. “My relations with him was very good, and we moved to Afghanistan together,” Batterjee said. “Takfiri ideology was already in existence in Peshawar, but was not widespread. We fought this

London, Jan 25: Upon returning from his five-month tour of duty in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province, the third in line to the British throne, Prince Harry, says he killed Muslims to protect his people. “Take a life to save a life, that's what we revolve around,” Harry said. It is not clear how many people Prince Harry has killed during the Helmand tour, but he has confirmed responsibility

London, Jan 20: William Henry 'Bill' Gates with an estimated wealth of $65 billion is as rich as two Kenyas, three Trinidads and a dozen Montenegros but is now engaged in the process of ridding himself of all the money in the hope of extending the lives of others less fortunate than himself. Having already given away $28 billion, the 57-year-old Microsoft co-founder now intends to eradicate polio