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The rise of early animals, not meteorite impacts or volcanic eruptions, led to the world's first known mass extinction, which took place about 540 million years ago, suggests new research.

A suicide bomber hit a Shiite mosque in the Yemeni capital on Thursday, killing at least 28 people in the latest such attack to be claimed by the Islamic State group.

Pakistan has said that its armed forces are capable of defending its territorial integrity against any aggression, particularly from India.

The two, who are in their mid 20s, were students of a madarsa in northeastern Chittagong.

The report also said that Osama is still receiving more than $100,000 a month, which are being transferred directly to his bank account.

At least six persons, including an elderly woman and two children, have been killed and as many injured in two separate landslides triggered by torrential rains in Nuwakot district of central Nepal.

Two powerful typhoons are expected to hit Japan's Ogasawara islands and Okinawa prefecture on Saturday and Sunday.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman said the terrorists demolished the Syriac Catholic monastery "on the pretext that it was used for worshipping others than God"

The hackers were detected in April ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to China in May and they are still conducting attacks, cyber-security firm FireEye said.

The Chinese military has ordered a thorough safety check of the army's storage of weapons and ammunition after last week's deadly warehouse explosions in Tianjin in which 114 people were killed and 65 others went missing.

Nuclear and biological detections teams yesterday found evidence of sodium cyanide, a deadly chemical that emits highly toxic gases if it is burnt or comes in contact with water along with other chemicals.

China's devaluation of the yuan may hit already oversupplied world commodity markets, as the surprise move increases the chances that the world's biggest coal importer will become a net exporter.

Hafiz Saeed's JuD is a front for Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba which has launched several attacks on India in the last few years.

In an unusual move, Muslims in Nepal have backed the ongoing campaign for reinstating the country's erstwhile Hindu identity, saying they are more "secure" under a Hindu state.

A freckled-faced three-year-old boy has gotten a few valuable pieces of advice from his six-year-old brother since he succeeded his elder sibling as mayor of a small town in northern Minnesota.