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Madrid: A fire broke out at a Spanish tyre dump near Madrid on Friday, generating a huge black cloud of toxic smoke that led authorities to order residents...

Sochi: A ballistic missile defence shield which the United States has activated in Europe is a step to a new arms race, Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Brussels/Ankara: The number of migrants arriving in Greece dropped 90 per cent in April, the European Union border agency said on Friday even as Turkey said...

Diyarbakir/Istanbul: Eight Turkish soldiers and 22 Kurdish militants have been killed in clashes over the last two days, authorities said on Friday, as...

Oklahoma: An experimental airplane powered solely by energy from the sun has flown from Arizona to Oklahoma on the eleventh leg of an historic bid by its...

Vienna: Rail boss Christian Kern will become Austria's next chancellor, the country's president confirmed on Friday, after the Social Democratic...

New York: The world's oldest living person, 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones, died on Thursday in New York City, a research group said. Jones'...

Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of Congo): Congo police fired teargas on Friday at thousands of supporters rallying outside the prosecutor's office...

New York/Dhaka: Investigators probing the cyber heist of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank connected it on Friday to the hack at Sony Corp's...

Rampara Kisana (India) : For Indian farmer Sompal Singh, the light bulb that flickers outside his mud hut home is a symbol of progress: the first time...