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Singapore authorities have ordered local importers to temporarily suspend of the sale of Nestle's Maggi noodles imported from India amid reports that high lead content was found in the popular instant snack in India.

Amid an escalating war of words between Pakistan and India, army chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday said there is no need to worry over India's posturing as Pakistani forces are capable of responding to any "aggression".

At least 13 bodies were recovered on Thursday in Pakistan's Balochistan province after 20 people were washed away in a flash flood caused by torrential rains.

An Indian-origin IT professional based in the UK surfed the Internet on how to murder his family and then committed suicide, authorities have said.

Prime Minister Haidar Abadi, a moderate Shi'ite, can only persuade Sunni tribes to fight Islamic State if he demonstrates that he can control the powerful Shi'ite militias whose military muscle he now depends on.

China on Sunday rejected US demands to stop reclamation works in the South China Sea.

Defined as having more than 10 million yuan ($1.6 million) of investable assets, the country's super rich totalled 1.04 million at the end of last year, or twice the number recorded in 2010, the China Private Wealth Report said.

Tanishq Abraham, a native of Sacramento, California, graduated from American River College in Sacramento (ARC), California, alongside 1,800 students.

Dressed in his brother's old British army fatigues, Mohan Ghale is rebuilding his mother's home stone by stone, after returning to Barpak village, high in the Himalayas, which was demolished by April's earthquake.

The Solomons are part of the "Ring of Fire", a zone of tectonic activity around the Pacific that is subject to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Powerful earthquakes on April 25 and May 12 killed at least 8,622 people and damaged 756,000 houses and other buildings.

Malaysian court in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday sentenced a man to four years behind bars and three strokes of the cane for stealing from the bank accounts of four persons who were on flight MH370, which vanished mid air on March 8, 2014.

US President Barack Obama broke a Guinness record by becoming the fastest person to garner one million followers on Twitter, a feat he accomplished in less than five hours with his new account @POTUS, Efe news agency reported.

The 32-year-old Samantha Lewthwaite is the widow of one of the London 7/7 suicide bombers, Germaine Lindsay.

As India pressed China to open its markets for Indian IT firms, technology major Infosys on Saturday announced establishing its first overseas centre outside India in China with an investment of about $120 million to tap in the burgeoning Chinese market.