A cargo aircraft belonging to the US courier United Parcel Services crashed on Friday evening near Dubai international airport. Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera channels reported that members of the crew were killed.

The body found in a Bihar forest was of Lucas Tete, one of the four policemen abducted by Maoist guerrillas five days ago, and not of Abhay Kumar Yadav as reported earlier, DIG Munger Shah Rukh Majeed said.

"Our nuclear programme has ensured our survival... Nuclear weapons made the nation walk with heads held high," said the scientist in a published interview. Khan is considered the father of Pak's secret nuke programme.

Two years after the near-meltdown, with the US looking sluggish and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook -- especially for the US and much of the industrialized world.

The Hare Krishna temple in the east Midlands town of Leicester was partly gutted when suspected gas bottles used for cooking in the temple exploded. Authorities said those present in the temple were safe.

"I am not the one to keep quiet when baseless allegations are hurled against me. I am not Yeddyurappa if I do not expose them," the CM said, reacting to charges that he had given or renewed mining licences.

The Union home ministry has sent another helicopter and additional paramilitary personnel to Bihar to help the state cops in the ongoing operation to locate the three policemen who are still in Maoist custody.

Senior Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar was conferred with the Indian Air Force's honorary rank of Group Captain to honour his cricketing achievements.

"I am not the one to keep quiet when baseless allegations are hurled against me. I am not Yeddyurappa if I do not expose them," the CM said, reacting to charges that he had given or renewed mining licences.

In yet another sectarian assault, a suicide bomber targeted a rally of Shia Muslim minority in Pakistan’s volatile south-western city of Quetta, killing 49 people and injured dozens of others.

The ICC rejected Pakistan's conspiracy theory behind the suspension of three of its players in connection with the 'spot-fixing' scandal and said clear indications were given about the impending action.

Senior Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar was conferred with the Indian Air Force's honorary rank of Group Captain to honour his cricketing achievements.

Facebook is reportedly testing a new subscription feature that would allow users to receive alerts any time a specific friend takes certain actions on the social network.

Candidates have been appointed to medical posts in the Railways, Indian Ordnance Factories Health Service, Central Government Health Service, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and New Delhi Municipal Council.

Julian Assange, founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, has admitted he had sexual relations with one of two Swedish women who have accused him of sex crimes.

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The Union home ministry has sent another helicopter and additional paramilitary personnel to Bihar to help the state cops in the ongoing operation to locate the three policemen who are still in Maoist custody.

In one more reason why mothers should breastfeed their babies as long as possible, scientists in UK have found that formula milk contain 40 times more aluminium than breast milk, potentially putting the toddlers' health at risk.

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"Our nuclear programme has ensured our survival... Nuclear weapons made the nation walk with heads held high," said the scientist in a published interview. Khan is considered the father of Pak's secret nuke programme.

In a shocking case, a woman police officer was dragged on the road by her subordinates in a vehicle after she objected to extortion by them in the name of traffic checking.

The day her son Vihaan was born, Nandita Das cut off completely from the rest of her commitments.

A huge traffic jam stretching at least 120kms reappeared in northern China on Thursday, with thousands of cargo trucks stuck in a bottleneck, reports said.

According to a report, Scotland Yard officers would question Salman Butt on Friday over how marked notes were discovered from his hotel room and in his locker at the Lord's cricket ground.

Acting on the directive of the Supreme Court, government today decided to release an extra 2.5 million tonnes of wheat and rice to states for distribution among the poor at a BPL price for the next 6 months.

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A huge traffic jam stretching at least 120kms reappeared in northern China on Thursday, with thousands of cargo trucks stuck in a bottleneck, reports said.

In a first, inter-religion live-in partners have got security from the Punjab and Haryana High Court after religious heads refused to solemnize their marriage unless they converted to one religion.

Facebook is rolling out a new security feature that lets users log out of their accounts remotely from another computer.

Salman Khan says he is still at loggerheads with Shah Rukh Khan.

The Indian concerns over Chinese 'activity and presence' in PoK were conveyed by ambassador to China S Jaishankar during a meeting with their vice minister for foreign affairs Zhang Zhijun in Beijing on Friday

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Pak High Commissioner to Britain gave a new twist to the spot-fixing scandal involving Pak team, saying players were "innocent" and Indian bookmakers were involved in the whole murky episode.

Pratik Babbar was invited, along with Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao, for the screening of Dhobi Ghat at the Toronto Film Festival.

Police have arrested a teenager and are on the lookout for two others for the alleged murder of their friend, who was pushed out of a train near Burdwan station on Wednesday night.

In a shocking case, a woman police officer was dragged on the road by her subordinates in a vehicle after she objected to extortion by them in the name of traffic checking.

God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the Universe due to a series of developments in physics, British scientist Stephen Hawking said in extracts published Thursday from a new book.

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The body found in a Bihar forest was of Lucas Tete, one of the four policemen abducted by Maoist guerrillas five days ago, and not of Abhay Kumar Yadav as reported earlier, DIG Munger Shah Rukh Majeed said.