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A blast ripped through a warehouse at a US military post near Tokyo early on Monday, sending sparks shooting into the sky and triggering a blaze that burned through the night, but there were no reports of injuries.

The figures represent a significant deviation from the norm when considering the standard biological sex birth ratio at birth ranges from 102 to 106 males for every 100 females born.

Pakistan had ruled out inviting J&K Assembly speaker Kavinder Gupta saying it does not recognise and accept the state assembly as legitimate one.

Analysis of toilet waste from international aircraft can help scientists in global surveillance of infectious diseases and identification of how they are transmitted between countries, researchers have found.

Myanmar has renewed a state of emergency in a restive northern region bordering China, state media said on Wednesday, extending army control over the area during crucial November elections.

"Four of our personnel were escorting the funds," said Haryono, the head of Jayapura post office.

Tens of thousands of protesters across Brazil called on President Dilma Rousseff to step down on Monday, blaming her and the leftist Workers' Party for the corruption and economic troubles besetting Latin America's biggest country.

carter had traveled to the South American country to observe national elections. At the time, the center said only that Carter had departed after "not feeling well."

Huge, fiery blasts at a warehouse for hazardous chemicals killed at least 50 people and turned nearby buildings into skeletal shells in the Chinese port of Tianjin

More than a dozen unpublished behind-the-scenes photographs of the wedding reception of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer at Buckingham Palace may fetch at least USD 18,000 at an auction here.

Around 30 million children under 18 years of age have no parents at home and two million fend for themselves with no adult guardian, according to the study.

Troops evacuated villagers from remote mountain regions in the east of the island and helped secure their homes as rains and surging waves battered the coast.

Doctors treating a 91-year-old woman in Chile with a suspected tumour got stunned after they discovered that she had been carrying a fetus in her womb for more than 60 years.

Britain is extending its air strikes against Islamic State (IS) group targets in Iraq by a year to March 2017, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said in comments broadcast on Tuesday.

The White House has again warned that if the Republican controlled Congress kills the historic nuclear deal with Iran, it would be impossible to assemble an international coalition, including India, to back sanctions against Tehran.

Obama, is very enthusiastic about the prospect of increased Indo-US collaboration, economic growth for American companies and investments in India, the White House has said.