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Egyptian police captured a senior Muslim Brotherhood official on Thursday and threatened to use live rounds at planned anti-government rallies, pressing ahead with a campaign that has thrown Egypt's oldest Islamist organisation into disarray.

President Bashar al-Assad's forces have removed several Scud missiles and dozens of launchers from a base north of Damascus, possibly to protect the weapons from a Western attack, opposition sources said on Thursday.

A small house in a narrow lane in Shaheen Bagh area, the home of the wife of Yasin Bhatkal, was the focus of attention following his arrest from the Indo-Nepal border on Thursday.

RBI Governor D Subbarao also said it would be "misleading" to blame recent policy pronouncements of the US Federal Reserve for the decline in rupee.

Two of the accused in December 16 gangrape case on Thursday questioned in a court in New Delhi the authenticity of the girl's dying declaration being relied upon by Delhi Police as they claimed that the same was introduced by the probe agency after her de...

One of the main accused in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case S Nalini, whose death sentence was commuted to life, moved the Madras High Court on Thursday seeking to quash the charges framed against her, in a case of keeping a cellphone in the prison cell.

Flood situation in Bihar worsened on Thursday with major rivers, including Ganga, Gandak and Sone in spate following heavy rains over the past 24 hours, officials said.

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the country's largest lender, posted a profit of 138.5 billion yuan (USD 22.3 billion), registering a year-on-year increase of 12.4 per cent.

North Korea on Thursday condemned a US-South Korea military drill as "war preparedness" and "confrontational policy", warning it would only cast shadow on the hard-won atmosphere for dialogue between the two Korean nations.

The Madhya Pradesh government has denied permission to former state Finance Minister Raghavji to have a government school teacher as his Personal Assistant (PA).

Naomi Campbell even kidnapped Kate Moss once so they could go on a vacation together.

Supporters of Asaram Bapu, facing charges of sexual assault on a minor girl, on Thursday met JD(U) President Sharad Yadav and asked him to withdraw the statement he had made against the self-styled godman in Lok Sabha.

60-year-old Arun Kumar, a senior professor in the Electrical Computer Science Department of the Institution was found murdered at his flat on Wednesday.

Jaitley said The UPA, who in 2004 had inherited a booming economy is leaving a disaster behind on the verge of their departure.

"No doubt that there is some talent. It's just a case of harnessing it," said Dave Staniforth.

Hyderabad icon player Saina won a tense decider after she could not finish off the match in the second game to emerge 21-10, 19-21, 11-8.