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China is planning to introduce a "baby bonus" scheme to provide financial incentives to encourage couples to have a second child, as surveys showed that many of them were reluctant to go beyond one child due to economic constraints, official media reporte...

The White House has said that the early reports coming from Kansas, where an Indian engineer was shot dead and another injured in an apparent hate crime, were "disturbing".

A fatally savage attack by unidentified assailants on a hippopotamus in El Salvador's main zoo has stunned the country, with the government highlighting "national revulsion" at the crime.

Over 350 suspects, including Afghan and Uzbek nationals, have been arrested and arms and drugs recovered from them during a series of countrywide search operations against terrorists, the Army said.

The German government on Saturday denounced Turkey's detention on terrorism-related charges of a journalist for the Die Welt newspaper, adding its voice to a growing chorus calling for his release.

Pope Francis has quietly reduced sanctions against a handful of pedophile priests, applying his vision of a merciful church even to its worst offenders in ways that survivors of abuse and the Pope's own advisers question.

After a brutal election loss in November, Democrats will choose a new leader on Saturday to begin the daunting task of rebuilding the party and heading the political opposition to Republican President Donald Trump.

A Sikh civil rights group has urged members of the Sikh-American community to exercise caution and be extra vigilant in the wake of a possible hate crime in Kansas city that left one Indian engineer dead and another injured.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Mexican leaders on Thursday to try to calm a row over President Donald Trump's trade and immigration policies.

Senior officer Cressida Dick was named the new commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police on Wednesday, the first woman to lead Scotland Yard in its 188-year history.

The order also put a temporary halt on the acceptance of refugees and an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees.

Indian-origin Labour MP Seema Malhotra was among a number of British MPs who spoke out against US President Donald Trump’s proposed state visit to the UK in Parliament.

Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed and four others today challenged their house arrest in the Lahore High Court.

As he seeks to get his struggling administration back on track, President Donald Trump is interviewing at least four potential candidates to serve as his new national security adviser.

A California university's decision to have the Dalai Lama speak at this year's commencement ceremony has sparked uproar among Chinese students who see the choice as an affront.

US President Donald Trump has said that 'Buy American and Hire American' is his new mantra as he vowed to "very strongly" enforce trade rules and stop "foreign cheating".