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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that Pakistanis have given him the mandate to improve relations with India, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The award was bestowed on Sharif at a special investiture ceremony which was also attended by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

GMR Infrastructure has sold its majority stake in a highway project for about $35 million, as debt-laden companies step up sales of some assets to boost earnings in a sector struggling with a weak economy.

In November 1987, nine-year-old Christina was found sexually assaulted and strangled in the western city of Osnabrueck.

Not his favourite hunting ground, but the German has begun to like the Marina Bay Street Circuit over the years.

Myanmar will start to set up a stock exchange market by 2015 with the help of Japan, an official said on Tuesday.

The actor is going to make films in several languages including Tamil, Telugu and Kannada.

Deepika Padukone says she is keen to work with superstar Salman Khan but is waiting for something special to bring them together on screen.

China has begun flight operations at the world's highest civilian airport in a bid to boost tourism and tighten political control over the country's restive west.

Japan on Tuesday condemned the use of chemical weapons in Syria after a UN report confirmed that sarin gas has been used in an attack in August near the capital Damascus.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has tightened rules for finance companies which lend against gold in line with the recommendations of an internal panel.

Pakistani troops on Tuesday fired at Indian positions in Mendhar sector on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, in yet another violation of the bilateral ceasefire, a defence spokesman said.

In all 12 people, mostly military contractors, were killed when the gunman went on a shooting rampage inside the Washington Navy Yard.

Two Nepalese nationals were arrested on Tuesday after contraband was allegedly seized from their possession near the Indo-Nepal border in Maharajganj.

Goals by Mikel San Jose, Andoni Iraola and Benat Etxebarria gave Athletic Bilbao a 3-2 win over Celta Vigo.

Two powerful storms pummeled Mexico as they converged from the Pacific and the Gulf on Monday, killing at least 42 people and stranding some 40,000 tourists in the Pacific resort of Acapulco amid some of the worst flooding in decades.