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The largest jackpot in USA history shot up to $1.5bn on Tuesday, driven by record sales as people flock across state lines and worldwide borders to buy tickets, a lottery executive said. A victor Saturday night would have been a record; the estimated pot for Wednesday’s...

If disputes or other problems arise, Kerry told reporters, a 20-member multinational group that has promoted peace talks will convene immediately after the Geneva meetings end.

Separately, police arrested four men in the northern state of Uttarakhand on Wednesday on suspicion of planning an attack in New Delhi.

One turning point was the Taliban attempt on the life of the schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai in 2012, transforming her into a global icon of courage and energizing other education campaigners in Pakistan.

On Monday, he will hold talks with Modi and inaugurate the offices of the International Solar Alliance in Gurgaon. Officials said they did not know who sent the letter.

Duties of Appa Rao will be taken over by Vipin Shrivastava, who is now heading the executive committee.

“Iran’s missile program has never been created to be capable of carrying nuclear weapons”, said foreign ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari (pictured above), according to state news agency INSA.

The blizzard surpassed the storm of 1888 and came in second only to a 2006 blizzard that left 26.9 inches of snow, a tenth of an inch more than Saturday’s storm, WABC, New York, reported.

Mr.de Blasio also said that too much power is in the hands of billionaires in the country, a reaction to the possibility of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg getting into the presidential race as an independent candidate. “I think I’d do very well against...

Meg Hillier, who chairs the Common’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC, ) will call Google and HMRC figures before MPs to explain the deal, which she said showed the taxman “admitting it pulled in too little tax from Google for nine out of 10 years”.

“Prime Minister should stop this pretence of emotions and the expressions of words of sympathy”. He has a moral and a constitutional duty to take action.

North Carolina lost a 20-point lead but made enough plays in the final moments to prevail in a tense 75-70 victory against Virginia Tech on Saturday at Cassell Coliseum.

In the 35-second ad titled “A Message from Barbara Bush”, the former first lady offers up some praise of her son who has been struggling to break through in the presidential race.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Gulf Arab countries in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for talks aimed at pushing the Syrian peace process forward and calming their concern about the worldwide agreement over Iran’s nuclear programme.

Noted US historian Leonard A. Gordon, who penned the book, Brothers Against the Raj: A Biography of Indian Nationalist Leaders Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose, said in Kolkata,”Files should have been opened much earlier”. Netaji’s role in Indian freedom struggle...