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The Vatican responded Wednesday to criticism that the title of Pope Francis upcoming encyclical on the postCOVID world is sexist, saying the document, Fratelli Tutti, ("Brothers All") in no way excludes women.

Hundreds of farmers staged a protest near Govindpuram grain market in Ghaziabad on Wednesday, demanding equal rate of compensation for the land in rural and urban areas, acquired for Delhi Meerut Expressway. Beginning their march from Modinag...

A couple were booked for allegedly creating ruckus at a COVID-19 testing centre, damaging patients' samples and testing kits in Ambegaon area here on Wednesday. Both, incidentally, tested positive for the viral infection.

Bodies of a man and a woman were found on Wednesday in separate incidents of suspected suicides, police said. The 40-year-old man's body was found hanging from a tree near Hindon river in Phase 2 police station area, they said.

Daniel Ellsberg, one of the most famous whistleblowers in living memory, came to the defense of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday in his legal fight to avoid extradition to the United States from Britain, arguing that the pair had very compara...

Families of 39 Filipino crewmen who were aboard a cattle ship that sank during a typhoon are pleading for a search to continue and to expand into uninhabited islands and nearby waters, two weeks after their vessel capsized off Japan.

A Katyusha rocket landed inside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on Wednesday, the Iraqi military said, a day after a British Embassy convoy was targeted on a key highway in the city.

Bosnia's police on Wednesday arrested nine Bosnian Serbs suspected of taking part in the killing and persecution of dozens of Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) in an eastern village early in the Bosnian war of the 1990s, the prosecutor's office said.

Meanwhile, the Congress, a constituent of the MVA government in Maharashtra, held state-wide protests against the Centre's decision.

Top aides to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went before a Congressional panel on Wednesday to defend President Donald Trump's decision to fire the former State Department inspector general while he was investigating weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and...

A man paralyzed in a 2016 shooting at cookout in western Pennsylvania that killed five people and an unborn baby has died, officials said.

Justice Navin Chawla, while issuing notice to the Bureau of Immigration and the Central Passport Organization seeking their response, also asked them to see how the issue can be resolved and listed the matter for hearing on October 20.

When asked if opposition MPs would be allowed to seek a clarification on the defence minister’s statement, Rajnath Singh said it would be up to the Chair to decide.

K T Ramees was granted bail by the special court (Economic Offences) in the case registered by the Customs (Preventive) Commissionerate.

Dipika Chikhlia, who is known for portraying the role of Sita in Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayana, took to social media to express grief as she lost her mother a few days ago.

The state government employees are governed by the rules/regulations framed by their respective state governments, he said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.