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Despite leading in most of the pre-caucus polls, the 69-year-old real estate billionaire finished second behind Texas Senator Ted Cruz and barely held off Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who came a close third, opening up a three-way contest in the Republica...

The former secretary of state, senator from New York and first lady edged past the Vermont senator in a race the Iowa Democratic Party called the closest in its caucus history.

With Iowans ready to cast the first votes of the 2016 presidential race on Monday, polls show Sanders and Clinton locked in a statistical dead heat in the state, although she leads the U.S. senator from Vermont in national polls.

The committee held the university's vice chancellor Fazal-ur-Rahim Marwat and security in-charge Ashfaq Ahmed responsible for "serious lapses in the security management" and recommended their removal.

China, Taiwan and Vietnam have overlapping claims in the Paracels and require prior notice from ships transiting what they consider their territorial waters. (File Picture)

Police officers stand watch outside the Rocky Mountain Regional Trauma Center after a shooting at a motorcycle show at the National Western Complex in Denver, Colorado.

CIBC World Markets said its assessment is not comprehensive, but that with Ottawa and provincial governments facing revenue crunches in the wake of falling commodity prices, it was worthwhile exploring how much new revenue could be generated from legal ma...

The explosion happened in Al-Arish city when the policemen were travelling in their vehicle. Five other conscripts were slightly injured.

Health experts have been looking at 4,180 suspected cases of microcephaly reported since October in Brazil, where authorities said the birth defect could be linked to the virus and announced that 220,000 military personnel were being deployed to help erad...

The prosecution had sought voice samples to compare it with inputs from India to present as evidence against the accused.

Four explosions and 39 low-intensity exhalations of ash were recorded between Sunday and Monday at the 5,452-meter (17,887-foot) volcano, according the National Disaster Prevention Center.

At least five people were killed and two people were injured in a school shooting in La Loche, Saskatchewan, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau said.

The investigating magistrate later ordered the release of one of them and ordered the other to reappear in court on Saturday, the Belgian news agency reported.

Apart from Germany being in the first position, other countries in the top five are Canada (2), the UK (3), the US (4) and Sweden (5).

The court in Balochistan's provincial capital Quetta acquitted former president Musharraf, ex-provincial home minister Mir Shoaib Nosherwani and Qaumi Watan Party chief and member of National Assembly Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao.