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The NSW parliament has unanimously backed a motion to condemn the “relentless booing” of AFL player Adam Goodes.

The Afghan Taliban has publicly named its new leader: Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, according to two commanders of the Islamic militant organization. Mansoor has-been an “active director” of the jihad, or holy war, for some years, it added.

A suitcase discovered near the debris will be studied at a criminal investigation laboratory in Pontoise, near the French capital, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Friday.

The death toll jumped from around 120 on Monday, after the discovery of more bodies in West Bengal and the western state of Gujarat where water levels have receded, allowing families to return home. Numerous deaths were due to drowning, collapsed masonry, lightning strikes and...

Pakistan executed a young man whose case touched off an global outcry amid claims he was tortured into a murder confession and convicted as a juvenile.

But unlike Thunderstrike 2, the original Thunderstrike virus could only be spread via physical access through the peripherals. The malware could “spread automatically from MacBook to MacBook, without the need for them to be networked”.

At least 12 people died after two passenger trains derailed within minutes of each other in central India, officials said Wednesday. Harda district officials said, water was flowing over the tracks when the last five bogies of Kamayani Express derailed.

He said information the family has received from law enforcement has been inconsistent, which raises concerns about what has and hasn’t been given to them.

The release of water from brimming dams has exacerbated the flooding in West Bengal after Cyclone Komen struck the east coast on Friday, Khan said.

BEARDSLEY: French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said today that he was sending police reinforcements to Calais.

Whatever the decision, the pressure surrounding the selection has been reduced immeasurably by the re-emergence of Steven Finn. He is tired of the questions of how it all went so badly wrong and prefers to concentrate on the future when he hopes to be the leader of the England attack.

Those who are suspicious of Pakistan’s role in these events believe that Mullah Omar’s longstanding opposition to reconciliation with the ill-equipped and shaky Kabul regime may have outlived its use. This ruled out his 26-year-old son, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoub, who is...

Retaining the consent and social impact assessment (SIA) clauses will make the Modi government’s Land Bill similar to UPA’s Land Acquisition Act of 2013.

There are telephones on the South Korean side for defectors from the impoverished and reclusive North to call seeking help, although it was not immediately clear if Tuesday’s incident involved North Korea.

Some Pakistani media reports suggest that Omar’s son Mullah Mohammad Yaqoub is himself hoping to succeed his father – a decision that many other senior leaders of the Taliban have reportedly opposed.