United Nations, April 20: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that UN staff members have increasingly become targets of attack despite the world body's efforts to ensure their safety and security.
Women's tennis icon Maria Sharapova Sunday said Sania Mirza was a great singles talent but it was right for the Indian to focus on doubles due to the demanding nature of the game.
Four people were injured in a blast at a garbage dump in Uttar Pradesh Saturday, police said.
At least nine people were killed and 20 security personnel injured when a riot broke out at a prison here Friday.
An army colonel was killed early Saturday when a fire broke out in a barrack in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district, an army official here said.
A 36-year-old property dealer was found dead in the back seat of a car in the capital, police said Saturday.
The man who shot a former US congresswoman in the head during a rampage that left six people dead and 13 wounded has been sentenced to a life term.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday travelled in a bus with cabinet ministers to the venue of the party's strategy meeting here, said sources.
At least 52 people have been killed, 22 missing and 1.2 million others affected by the 7.4-magnitude earthquake which hit the country's Pacific coast Wednesday, said Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina.
Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor Friday said there is a need to think beyond the 2015 deadline of millennium development goal (MDG) for education for all (EFA) as most of the countries are likely to miss the target.
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