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Great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi elected to US State Assembly

Shanti Gandhi, 72, contesting as a Republican Party candidate, defeated his Democratic rival Theodore "Ted" Ensley by nine percentage point for the Kansas's 52nd Assembly District.

Will British boy band One Directions play for Obama's daughters?

Both Malia, 14, and Sasha, 11, have become huge fans of the band since they took the US by storm.

US punish seven Navy SEALs for secrecy breach

The game, produced by Electronic Arts, does not recreate the bin Laden raid.

India approves projects worth $100 mn in Afghanistan

The cabinet decision comes ahead of the visit of Afghan President Hamid Karzai here next week.

Pak police officer, 4 others dead in suicide bombing

The bomber detonated his explosives at a crowded market in Peshawar.

Sunita Williams votes by absentee ballot

Sunita, along with flight engineer Kevin Ford, exercised her franchise in July while stationed in Russia even before heading up to the station aboard Soyuz .

Russia's foreign minister meets Syrian defector

Russia is one of the strongest international supporters of President Bashar Assad's regime.

Bomb near military base kills at least 7 in Iraq

Authorities in Iraq say a car bomb has exploded near a military base north of Baghdad, killing at least seven people and wounding 15.

A week after Hurricane Sandy New York schools reopen

New York City schools opened on Monday a week after Hurricane Sandy killed 40 people in the Big Apple, while further stretches of the subway were rolling again and electricity was restored to most homes.

9/11 memorial reopens a week after Hurricane Sandy

The storm that claimed at least 40 lives in the city spared the core of the memorial that will again receive visitors on Tuesday morning.

Rare 'vampire' skeleton unearthed in Nottinghamshire

The skeleton dating from 550-700 AD found buried in the ancient minster town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire has shed light on rare 'vampire' burials in Britain.

US soldier appears in court for Afghan massacre

Staff Sgt Robert Bales is scheduled to face a preliminary hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle that could last as long as two weeks.

Case against former Maldivian President suspended

A higher court in the Maldives on Sunday ordered the suspension of a legal hearing on charges against the country's former president. Ex-leader Mohamed Nasheed is accused of illegally ordering the detention of a senior judge, a move that led to his ouster from power earlier this year.

Car bomb in Libya injures three policemen

A car bomb exploded on Sunday in front of a police station in Benghazi, injuring three police officers in the latest in a series of attacks on security officials in Libya's second largest city.

Pak lawyer seeks dismissal of contempt petition against Zardari

A lawyer has approached a court to dismiss a contempt petition pending adjudication against President Asif Ali Zardari for not relinquishing the political office of co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party.

Iran's parliament to grill Ahmadinejad on plummeting currency

Iran's parliament has summoned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be questioned over the country's plummeting currency.

Sri Lanka says it has completed rehabilitation of displaced Tamils

Sri Lanka on Friday told India it has completed the process of rehabilitating 296,000 Tamils displaced by the civil war and said it was fast-tracking political reconciliation in the island nation.

Cops close streets after chemical bomb threat at CNN Centre

Police closed streets and sidewalks around CNN Centre in downtown Atlanta as they investigated a chemical bomb threat

Elephant in zoo learns to speak Korean

The 22-year-old Asian elephant can reproduce five Korean words by tucking his trunk inside his mouth to modulate sound.

Four shot, wounded in US Halloween party

The incident happened around 11.45 pm on Wednesday at the University of Southern California.

Fuel tanker explosion kills two in Riyadh

The death toll could rise as rescue crews picked through the charred vehicles and rubble in an industrial area in the city's eastern district.

Brit man creates world's first music from swimming pool waves

A British composer dubbed 'King Canute' has become the first in the world to perform music created by waves — in a swimming pool.

Celebratory gunfire at Saudi wedding kills 23 people

Celebratory gunfire at a wedding party in eastern Saudi Arabia on Tuesday night brought down an electric cable, killing 23 people, a local civil defence official said.

South Dakota executes man for murder of girl

A South Dakota inmate was executed on Tuesday night for the 1990 rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl who disappeared after leaving her home to buy sugar at a nearby store so she could make lemonade.

Vietnam sentences 2 dissident songwriters to prison terms

A Vietnamese court has sentenced two songwriters to prison for posting songs online that are critical of the government.

Raid in Ghazni kills 4 Taliban, 3 civilians

An Afghan army officer says a pre-dawn raid in the eastern province of Ghazni killed four Taliban and three civilian bystanders

Two Air India flights delayed by Hurricane Sandy

Air India today said its Mumbai-Newark and Delhi-New York flights have been "indefinitely delayed" due to Hurricane Sandy which is set to hit the East Coast of the United States.

Two killed, 25 injured in Pakistan shrine blast

The police say a bomb has exploded outside the shrine of a Sunni Muslim saint in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least two people.

Silvio Berlusconi faces verdict in tax fraud case

An Italian court is set to deliver verdicts against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and 10 others in a six-year-old tax fraud trial.