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With his commitment to end open defecation, Prime Minister Modi is breaking taboos while making sanitation a national priority," Secretary-General Ban said in his message on the launch of the exhibition 'Water for Life' in Mumbai on Tuesday.

In the past, the army had toppled the civilian government four times to directly rule the country.

Turnbull will be the country's fourth prime minister in just over two years, part of a recent Australian political tradition of swiftly removing failing leaders.

In the hastily-arranged late night party leadership ballot, 57-year-old Abbott, who had been plagued by poor opinion polls, received 44 votes Turnbull's 54.

The woman was charged with two counts of felony child endangerment.

Only one in 10 of the 226 prisoners executed since December was convicted of a terror attack, according to human rights activists.

Germany alone expects 800,000 asylum applications this year, including those who have crossed the Mediterranean, others from Balkan states and some who arrived in previous years.

a Yazidi hostage who managed to escape from ISIS captivity says she was abused by ISIS chief Baghdadi himself. "They would lock us in, one night we got keys and tried to escape, we were 6 girls. We ran for 3 kms, we saw a house in a village," she said.

You can send your name that will be embedded on a computer chip aboard the InSight lander.

Iraq ordered 36 of the $65 million Lockheed Martin Corp planes, but initial deliveries to Balad air base north of Baghdad in 2014 were held up because of security concerns after the militants overran large areas of Iraq.

The dead included five children among them Aylan’s 5-year-old brother — and one woman. According to the Independent, the woman was the boys’ mother, Rihan, 35.

The US has launched a separate and secret drone campaign managed jointly by the CIA and Special Operation Forces in Syria to target the leaders of the dreaded ISIS in Syria.

Two journalists, including an Australian editor, were found not guilty of criminal defamation by a Thai court on Tuesday, their lawyer said, over a report implicating the kingdom's navy in human trafficking.

A son of a samosa vendor in Pakistan has secured the top position in Class 12 examination, a media report said on Monday.

A day after the Virginia shooting incident, President Barack Obama, on Thursday expressed concern over the gun culture in the US.

Following the designation of a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, Aziz Haqqani comes under the ambit of US sanctions, which prohibits any US national from maintaining any relationship with him