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Four guilty of Delhi gang rape to be sentenced on Friday: judge

Demonstrators with their heads covered by black cloth take part in a protest outside a court in New Delhi September 10, 2013. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A judge will deliver his sentence on Friday against four men convicted of killing a woman they gang-raped and tortured on

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A riot policeman catches fire from a molotov cocktail bomb during a protest marking the 1973 military coup in Santiago, September 8, 2013. September 11 marks the 40th anniversary of the coup d'etat in Chile that ushered in a 17-year dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (CHILE - Tags: CIVIL UNREST ANNIVERSARY POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTX13D4I
Four men found guilty in landmark Indian gang-rape trial

NEW DELHI: Four men were found guilty on Tuesday of the rape of a woman on a bus in the Indian capital and her murder, closing a chapter on a

Miss World starts in Indonesia after protests

Bali (AFP):  Miss World began in Indonesia Sunday amid tight security after days of Muslim hardline protests that forced authorities to order the whole beauty pageant be held on the

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (C) meets Alaeddin Boroujerdi (L), head of the Iranian parliamentary committee for national security and foreign policy, in Damascus September 1, 2013 in this handout released by Syria's national news agency SANA. REUTERS/SANA/Handout via Reuters
Assad denies chemical weapons use; U.S. presses case for strike

WASHINGTON/LONDON: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied that he was behind a chemical weapons attack on the Syrian people, as the White House on Sunday pressed ahead with the uphill effort

Thai Airways Airbus 330 skids off Bangkok runway‚ 14 injured

BANGKOK: An Airbus 330-300 operated by Thai Airways skidded off the runway at Bangkok’s main international airport after the nose wheel collapsed on landing late Sunday night, injuring 14 passengers,

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Tokyo wins bid to host 2020 Olympics

BUENOS AIRES: Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Olympics on Saturday, capitalizing on its reputation as a “safe pair of hands” and defying concerns about the Fukushima nuclear crisis. Tokyo defeated

U.S. President Barack Obama makes remarks on the situation in Syria, at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington August 31, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Theiler
Obama appeals for backing to hit Syria‚ Europeans urge delay

WASHINGTON/VILNIUS: President Barack Obama urged Americans on Saturday to back him in launching an attack on Syria, as diplomatic pressure grew on the United States to wait for a U.N.

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Man arrested in Buckingham Palace ‘after scaling fence’

A man has been arrested on suspicion of burglary, trespass and criminal damage after scaling a fence to get into Buckingham Palace, police have said. He was found “in an

A worker repairs a diesel pump machine at a fuel station in Kolkata January 18, 2013. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/Files
India eyes diesel price rise‚ fuel consumption curbs

NEW DELHI: India may announce more measures to curb fuel consumption later this month and raise diesel prices by close to 10 percent soon in a bid to cut the

A family votes at Sydney's Bondi Beach on September 7, 2013, in Australia's general election (AFP, William West)
Australians vote with Abbott set for landslide win

SYDNEY: Millions of Australians voted in national elections Saturday with conservative challenger Tony Abbott heading for a thumping victory over Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Polling booths opened at 8:00