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Amid growing dissent within Taliban ranks over succession following Mullah Omar's death, an influential Pakistani cleric has backed Mullah Akhtar Mansour as the new chief.

A gang armed with machetes hacked a secular blogger to death at his home in Dhaka on Friday in the fourth such murder in Bangladesh since the beginning of 2015, an activist group and police said.

The UN has said it is exploring a broad package of technical and financial assistance to Sri Lanka to advance the government's efforts to achieve reconciliation with the Tamil minority community.

As many as 70 crocodile heads were found dumped and left to rot in a freezer in a small town in northern Australia, media reported on Tuesday.

A former officer of Pakistan Air Force who was arrested for breaching Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's convoy has been released after interrogation, authorities said on Monday.

The Hampshire police service spokesman said an investigation into the causes of the incident had been launched.

As many as 39 US lawmakers have asked the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to change a policy requiring Sikhs and other players to remove their articles of faith, such as turbans, in international competition.

At least 25 people, including 13 women, were killed and several others went missing on Thursday after landslides triggered by heavy rains buried houses across Nepal.

The Taliban on Thursday rejected reports of any fresh round of peace talks expected this week with the Afghan government, while making no comment on Kabul's reported death of their leader Mullah Omar.

The US has issued a worldwide travel caution for its citizens including in India in the wake of increased threat coming in particular from the expanding global presence of the Islamic State.

bdul Basit was sentenced to death in 2009 and his death warrants were issued for execution on July 29. However, on his plea that in Faislabad Jail in 2010 he contracted tubercular meningitis which left him paralysed from the lower part of the body

Seif al-Islam was not in court because he is held in the southwestern hill town of Zintan by militia opposed to the Tripoli authorities.

China stocks plunged more than 8 percent, their biggest one-day drop in more than eight years, as a government-triggered rebound petered out amid profit-taking, concerns over economic health and fears of an end to Beijing's inclination toward looser monet...

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck near the South Pacific Island nation of Tonga on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday congratulated his Maldivian counterpart on Maldives' 50th Independence Day.