At least 44 people were killed on Saturday and scores injured in a double bombing attack on buses of Shia pilgrims parked outside a cemetery here, a war monitor based in Britain said. ....

Sri Lanka sent the largest ever contingent of food and beverage exporting companies to 'Gulfood 2017', the world's largest annual food and drink exhibition in Dubai, a statement said on Saturday. ....

Pakistan on Saturday summoned the Indian Deputy High Commissioner to express concern over the acquittal of RSS leader Swami Aseemanand in the 2007 Ajmer Sharif blast case. ....

Recalling the tragedies of 2001, India has warned against appeasing terrorist organisations operating in Afghanistan. ....

Cited diplomatic protocol, the New York City medical examiners office has said it will not release the cause and manner of death for Russias ambassador to the United Nations, who died last month after collapsing in his office. ....

The Pakistani parliament has adopted the landmark Hindu Marriage Law to regulate the community's marriages in the country. ....

Two people were killed and one injured following a shootout in a cafe in Basel, Switzerland, a media report said on Thursday. ....

At least 22 people were killed and 40 others injured when a passenger bus plunged down some 200 meters from a highway in Nepal's far-western Jajarkot district on Thursday. ....

At least 23 civilians were killed in airstrikes by the US-led international coalition near the Syrian city of al-Raqqa, a British war monitor reported on Thursday. ....

FBI Director James Comey warned that Americans should not have expectations of "absolute privacy" after the disclosure of a range of hacking tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). ....