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Chinese shares fell for a fourth consecutive day on Wednesday, but the declines were modest as Beijing's efforts to prop up values appeared to have brought a measure of stability to its unruly stock market.

The 300 year old Gadhimai festival will go bloodless in its next edition in 2019. More than five lakh animals get slaughtered during the festival.

An Indian-American scientist has been awarded a USD 3 million grant for working on treatment of diabetes by using a virus that can reduce glucose level in blood.

A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake has struck the far eastern Indonesian province of Papua, US geologists said on Tuesday, although tsunami monitors said there was no threat of dangerous waves.

Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have developed a computer algorithm that can help scientists for the first time see how drugs produce pharmacological effects inside the body.

A new temple devoted to Lord Venkateshwara will be constructed at a cost of about $3 million in the US's state of Ohio.

The New Horizons probe has found a second mountain range situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain on the lower-left edge of Pluto.

Millions of Nepalese people, including those abroad, on Monday participated in a two-day campaign to garner public opinion on the first draft of the country's new constitution.

Under a February armistice, both the rebels and the Ukrainian forces they are fighting were to pull back heavy weapons to create a buffer zone, but violations have been frequent and fighting continues

The blast brought down several buildings in Khan Bani Saad crushing to death people who were celebrating the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan

Packing gusts up to 126 kilometres (78 miles) per hour, Nangka barrelled over the nation's main island of Honshu after making landfall near Cape Muroto on Shikoku island late Thursday.

The European Central Bank increased emergency funding for Greek lenders, although capital controls will have to remain in place to avoid a run on the banks when they reopen on Monday.

Working with women's and human rights organisations for almost three decades, Sunita is co-founder and active board member of the 14-year-old front-line women's human rights organisation, Women for Afghan Women.

Delivering the annual budget, Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat Mahat said the government will train thousands of people to work as carpenters, plumbers, electricians and masons.

A 94-year-old German man who worked as a bookkeeper at the Auschwitz death camp was convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people and sentenced to 4 years in prison.

"Around 6:30 am, two or three armed criminals went into the Primark store for what we think was initially an attempt at armed robbery," a police source, who wished to remain anonymous, said of the incident at Villeneuve-la-Garenne.