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Scientists have found a towering rock structure deep under East Asia by using 3-D supercomputer simulations of data from 227 earthquakes that hit the region during 2007-2011.

Al-Baghdadi, an ambitious Iraqi terrorist believed to be in his early 40s, has a $10 million US bounty on his head.

More than 20 dead whales were found on the beach in southern Chile, maritime officials have said as they tried to determine what killed them and when.

The US Justice Department will conduct a federal probe into Baltimore's police department following riots triggered by the death of a black man under police arrest, the Washington Post has reported.

The princess is the second child of William and his wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge. The baby will be known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, royal officials said Monday.

Lifting the gloom on a day marred by more aftershocks that kept people in Nepal on edge and a rising death toll that topped the 7,200-mark, rescuers on Sunday pulled out three more survivors from under the debris of their homes who were miraculously alive...

The iconic central stupa, with its gazing eyes of the Buddha at Kathmandu's iconic Swayambhunath temple still stands tall at the hilltop, but the surrounding structures inside this famed Buddhist temple complex has been reduced to rubble.

Five days after the massive quake, UN aid trucks were finally arriving - after a few false starts.

A 24-year-old woman has been pulled out alive from the wreckage of a building in Nepal on Friday, 128 hours after a deadly 7.9-magnitude tremblor devastated the Himalayan nation.

The panel said Hindu groups also reportedly give monetary incentives to Hindus to convert Christians and Muslims to Hinduism.

Expressing sadness at the devastation caused by earthquake that shook Nepal, the Tibetan government-in-exile announced a financial aid of Rs 12.5 lakh to the neighbouring country.

The second IL-76 plane, the IAF's transport aircraft, took off from its air base at 7.23 AM on the rescue and relief mission to Hindon airbase (near Delhi) and will go to Kathmandu with the given load and task, an official release said.

Normal call rates to Nepal from India varies in the range of Rs 7 to 12 per minute.

The latest aftershock hit at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres at 12:39 IST, according to the US Geological Survey.