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In a major breakthrough in transplant surgery, US doctors have successfully performed the world's first skull-scalp transplant on a 55-year-old man who suffered a large head wound from cancer treatment.

Indian insurance giant LIC has been allowed to form a joint venture in Bangladesh, becoming the second foreign insurer to operate in the country, officials said on Wednesday.

A suicide blast on Friday near the Gaddafi stadium where an ODI between Pakistan and Zimbabwe was being played claimed the life of a policeman who stopped the bomber from targeting the cricketing venue.

The Philadelphia to Atlanta flight, which usually takes about two hours, landed three hours late in the evening, CNN reported.

Washington put Cuba on its terrorism blacklist in 1982, when Havana supported armed guerrilla movements in Latin America.

The incident occurred at 39,000 ft about 3.5 hours after Flight SQ836 bound for Shanghai, operated by an Airbus A330-300, left Changi Airport on Saturday.

Vietnamese and Philippine troops played soccer and sang karaoke on a South China Sea island on Wednesday in a sign of the growing security ties between the two Southeast Asian nations most at odds with Beijing over the contested waterway.

Islamic State poured more fighters into Ramadi as security forces and Shi'ite paramilitaries prepared to try to retake the Iraqi city, while Washington scrambled on Monday to reassure Baghdad after a US official's sharp criticism of Iraqi forces.

The raging waters destroyed hundreds of homes and sent cars floating down streets, rolling and bobbing like giant toys.

Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics in 1994 for his work on game theory and the mathematics of decision-making.

Among the documents found at Osama's Abbottabad compound in Pakistan was a job application for people interested in joining al-Qaeda.

With this, a total of 248 aftershocks of over 4 magnitude were recorded since the April 25 earthquake.

Lewthwaite is believed to have risen through the ranks of Africa-based terror group al-Shabaab.

One day after his son's wedding, a Serbian man shot dead his new daughter-in-law, his own wife and both women's parents before killing himself with his hunting rifle on Sunday, police said.