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In an apparent dig at Donald Trump, US First Lady Michelle Obama has said that America needs a President who "plays by the rules" and "pay taxes" as she made a strong pitch for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

More than 50,000 new signatures have been added to the final count of the White House petition seeking to designate Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism, making it the most popular US petition so far.

China has for the first time deployed 10 intelligent robots who can detect suspicious people and raise an alarm as customs officers at three ports in southern Guangdong Province, after it used robots for security at an airport.

Pakistan has told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that India's claim of carrying out a surgical strike across the LoC was false.

Two Pakistani soldiers were killed in an exchange of fire between Indian and Pakistani troops across the Line of Control (LoC) in Bhimber, Hotspring Kel and Lipa Sectors in the Kashmir Valley, Pakistan Army claimed on Thursday.

Bangladesh has asked the United Nations to declare Pakistan a "terrorist state" underlining India's argument that Islamabad should be isolated in the global community as a nation that exports terror to rest of world.

Pakistan cannot take India's policy of strategic restraint for granted for too long and if Islamabad rejects Prime Minister Narendra Modi's offer of cooperation, it will become part of a case for making the country a "pariah nation", a US daily has claime...

Apart from India, Bangladesh and Bhutan have also pulled out of the SAARC Summit in Islamabad in November, saying the environment is not right for the successful holding of the meet.

The US has asked India and Pakistan to resolve their differences through diplomacy and not through violence.

Police in Pakistan are guilty of widespread violations of human rights, including random arrests, torture and extra-judicial killings, a prominent rights group has alleged.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her Republican counterpart Donald Trump on Tuesday sparred over economy and creating new jobs, in their first face-off in a nationally televised presidential debate ahead of US polls.

Milton Gan, a Sydney-based photographer, said it seemed like Trump was trying to rein in his temper for the first 15 minutes, then went off the rails.

The race has closed from an 8-point Clinton lead in early August.

All eight were arrested in the Alpes-Maritimes region in the southeastern corner of France that includes Nice.

US President Barack Obama on Monday blasted Republican nominee Donald Trump, saying he treats the presidential race as an "infomercial".

Thieves who broke into a home in the US state of Texas and swiped electronic equipment left behind notes confessing to the crime in child-like handwriting.