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In an unusual ruling by a judge in the US, a man accused of punching his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend was given a choice between marrying her within 30 days or go to jail for the crime.

A key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, Yakub Khan alias Yeda Yakub, is believed to have died in Karachi in Pakistan, as per information received by police here.

A fourth debate is set for January 17, 2016 in South Carolina, while the fifth and sixth debates are in Florida and Wisconsin, in either February or March.

A cleaner at a mall in China's financial hub Shanghai had his leg amputated as it got stuck in an escalator, less than a week after a woman was killed in a similar tragedy, sparking concerns over the safety of users.

Five days after the discovery of a Boeing 777 wing fragment on La Reunion island, French and Malaysian aviation experts will meet together with police and magistrates in Paris on Monday to coordinate their work in the investigation into the disappearance...

During aerobatics at the event some 200 km (124 miles) south-east of Moscow, an Mi-28 helicopter went into a flat spin before crashing.

The White House has again warned that if the Republican controlled Congress kills the historic nuclear deal with Iran, it would be impossible to assemble an international coalition, including India, to back sanctions against Tehran.

The storm, currently southeast of the city of Chittagong, was packing winds of only about 54 kilometres an hour and was expected to lose strength after making land, meteorologist Abdur Rahman said.

Two Afghan commanders present at a meeting of the militant movement's most senior figures said on Thursday, following reports that Mullah Omar is dead.

Napoleon Bonaparte likely would have conquered Russia in 1812 if not for a life-saving brain surgery performed on Russian general Mikhail Kutuzov by a French surgeon, scientists have found.

Boeing said in a statement it remained "committed to supporting the MH370 investigation and the search for the airplane".

The unclassified email network used by America's top general and hundreds of military and civilian personnel was taken offline after suspicious activity was detected, the Pentagon said.

An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted Pakistan in the wee hours Saturday, forcing people to rush out of their homes in panic, media reported.

A US air strike in Afghanistan killed a senior Al-Qaeda commander in charge of suicide bombing and two other militants, the Pentagon said on Friday.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and Chief of Army Staff General Dalbir Singh Suhag will visit Drass in Kargil tomorrow to pay homage to the martyrs of the 1999 war against Pakistan.

The Chinese firm, which reportedly manufactured the drone downed by Pakistan along the Line of Control (LoC), said the unmanned aircraft was not sold to any government, reinforcing India's stand that it was not in its armed forces' inventory.