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Sri Lanka's main Tamil party TNA was on Thursdday declared the main Opposition in the parliament with its leader R Sampanthan becoming the first lawmaker from the minority community to lead it in the House in 32 years.

Migrants poured into Budapest's main railway station on Thursday after Hungarian police withdrew following a two-day standoff, triggering chaotic scenes.

Nepal police fired into a crowd of demonstrators on Monday, killing one person as fresh protests erupted in the country's southern plains over a new draft constitution.

The Islamic State militant group has claimed to have started its own currency by minting coins and described the move as a "second blow" to the US after 9/11, according to a newly released video.

The hardline Islamic State group has destroyed part of an ancient temple in Syria's Palmyra city, a group monitoring the conflict said on Sunday.

Sea levels are rising around the world, and the latest satellite data suggests that three feet (one meter) or more is unavoidable in the next 100-200 years, NASA scientists said Wednesday.

"There are no laws regarding surrogacy it raises many constitutional and legal questions," said Nahakul Subedi, spokesman for the Supreme Court

NASA's remotely piloted Global Hawk aircraft, equipped with gen-next weather forecast observation tools, will begin flights this week in a mission to improve hurricane track and intensity forecasts.

The temple bombing would be the first time the insurgents, who control swathes of Syria and Iraq and captured Palmyra in May, damaged monumental Roman-era ruins.

South Korea on Thursday fired dozens of shells across the border into North Korea in retaliation for an apparent rocket attack, Seoul's defence ministry said.

Another explosion occurred on Tuesday at a pier in Bangkok, the local press reported. No injuries reported.

Two American women will Friday become the first female soldiers to graduate from the elite and hugely demanding Ranger School which feeds the US special forces, the military said.

Rescuers on Tuesday discovered the black box of the ATR-42 that crashed at the accident site in Indonesia's Oksibil city, an official said.

The suicide bomber entered the building disguised as a visitor and blew himself up.

Work on a landmark Chinese-backed waterfront development in Colombo could resume after next Monday's general election in Sri Lanka, even if Beijing's preferred candidate for prime minister, ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa, is defeated.

A 25-year-old Indian student has been charged with several offences in Canada after drugs, weapons, cash and a stolen motorcycle were seized from his apartment and faces extradition to India.