Anil Bhat
Jammu, Jan 7 (PTI) The year gone by saw a record low in
violence-related incidents in Jammu and Kashmir (India's
northernmost state) in the past 20 years.

Yoshita Singh
Chicago, Jan 7 (PTI) Pakistani-Canadian terror suspect
Tahawwur Rana will have to spend more days in custody after a

Natasha Chaku
Melbourne, Jan 7 (PTI) Australian police Thursday stepped
up efforts to nab the killer of a 21-year-old Indian and

Srinagar, Jan 7 (PTI) Security forces Thursday stormed the
hotel in Lal Chowk area of India's northernmost state of Jammu

Melbourne, Jan 7 (PTI) Australia's police Thursday
stepped up efforts to identify the killer of 21-year old
Indian-youth Nitin Garg who was brutally murdered recently,

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SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth

Kentucky Fried Chicken's head office in the US has apologised for "any
misinterpretation" caused by a controversial Australian cricket ad as furious debate

Police have found knives, a machete and knuckledusters in a random search for
weapons at a Melbourne railway station, days after Indian student Nitin Garg was
stabbed nearby.

Criminal charges could be laid over a high seas crash which holed an anti-whaling ship.
Australian authorities will investigate the incident, with parallel investigations

From Kuzaimah Idris