At least six more birds died here yesterday due to avian influenza, taking the toll of migratory birds from the disease to 64, Delhi Animal Husbandry Minister Gopal Rai said.

Yesterday’s s attack as the deadliest Maoist incident this year

A historic Muslim shrine in Mumbai yesterday agreed to lift a ban on women entering its inner sanctum, after a bitter legal battle about the restriction in the deeply religious country.

Pakistan was praised yesterday by IMF chief Christine Lagarde for emerging from an economic crisis and stabilising its economy, after the country completed its bailout programme.

Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party was in turmoil yesterday as party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav publicly admonished his son and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav at a meeting which ended on a fiery note with sacked minister Shivpal Yadav calling Akhilesh a “liar.”

Hundreds of women marched again in Polish cities yesterday to oppose proposals for tight restrictions on abortion after earlier protests effectively scuttled a near-total ban on terminating pregnancies.

More than 1,000 migrants sang hymns, danced and clapped as they sailed into Palermo yesterday, along with the corpses of 17 people who did not survive another series of tragedy-tainted rescues in the Mediterranean.

Miss Nepal Barsha Lekhi poses while visiting the Owakudani volcanic zone in Hakone, Kanagawa prefecture yesterday.

A total of 2,318 migrants were “taken to shelter” on the first day of the French authorities’ operation to dismantle the notorious “Jungle” camp in the port of Calais, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said yesterday.

Students in northern Sri Lanka yesterday launched a protest and submitted a petition to the government over the death of two university students in Jaffna town last week.

The United Nations yesterday said it was adapting and refocusing its work in Sri Lanka with evolving global and national development priorities.

One person was killed and 18 others were wounded, some of them critically, when a bomb exploded outside a noodle shop in Thailand’s far south, police and witnesses said yesterday.