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Expressing sadness at the devastation caused by earthquake that shook Nepal, the Tibetan government-in-exile announced a financial aid of Rs 12.5 lakh to the neighbouring country.

An infant died of suffocation after her 25-year-old mother allegedly put her in a plastic bag and hid in desk drawer minutes after giving birth.

Army officer Santosh Nepal and a group of rescuers worked all night to open a passage into a collapsed building in the capital Kathmandu.

The worst quake to hit the impoverished Himalayan nation in 81 years also caused damage in neighbouring Indian states and Bangladesh.

In a hard-hitting statement, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Zeid Ra'ad Al Husein said Katie Hopkins had used language similar to that employed by some Rwandan media outlets in the run-up to the 1994 genocide, and by the Nazis in the 1930s.

A railway route along the eastern part of Pakistan is the most feasible for the railway artery of the China-Pakista

A Chinese court has declared "illegal" a "poetic" name given by a father to his daughter, as under the new rules parents have to name their wards after close relatives to discourage new trends of fashionable or unorthodox names.

Al Jazeera on Wednesday only showed a blank screen with a message saying that "as instructed by the ministry of Information and Broadcasting, this channel will not be available from 00.01 hours on 22nd April till 00.01 hours on 27th April 2015."

Muslims and others fear it is profiling disguised as prevention and worry it could compromise civil liberties and religious freedoms.

"Canada overwhelmingly stands by the unity and integrity of India," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said during a reception hosted for his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.

The ships, sent by the government, had reached Djibouti with armed naval commandos and under naval escort on board on April 5 and departed from there on April 12.

Its romantic. The romance of pen on paper - the feel of pen on paper when writing, and the romance of holding the postcard in your hand when you get it. Its almost like holding each others hands.

The trip will cover roughly 1,000 miles between Clinton's home in New York City's suburbs and Iowa.

"These terrorists want to cause divisions in our society, but we shall tell them, 'You will never prevail'," the archbishop said.

The moment when the moon was completely obscured by Earth's shadow lasted several minutes, making it the shortest lunar eclipse of the century.

The South Jakarta District Court convicted Neil Bantleman and Ferdinant Tjiong on Thursday of violating Indonesia's Child Protection Law and Criminal Code.