Twelve people, including eight police personnel, were killed and over 20 injured on Thursday in a powerful bombing in Pakistan's Quetta city.

Gurgaon - the most progressive city of Haryana has figured among districts having lowest sex ratio even as overall sex ratio of Haryana has increased to 879.

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt on Wednesday has been shifted to high security Yerwada Jail in Pune from Mumbai, a jail official said.

Over 90 people, including 20 children, were killed after a monstrous tornado ripped through the US city of Oklahoma, flattening entire neighbourhoods, crushing two elementary schools and turning the area into a war-zone.

Alaska's Pavlof Volcano sent ash and steam skyward but not enough to raise the aviation threat for international air carriers.

Twelve people were killed and 25 others injured when two blasts ripped through as many mosques in the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan on Friday.

A total of 95 people, including 23 Hezbollah members, have been killed in an intense fighting in Syria's Al-Qussair city since Saturday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday.

Actor Sanjay Dutt will remain in the 'anda' (egg-shaped) cell in the high-security block at the Arthur Road jail here for some time, a top police officer said on Monday, as authorities in Maharashtra debate whether to shift him out of Mumbai.

At least 20 people were killed by a series of car bombs in mainly Shi'ite districts of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Monday and 11 others were killed by attacks in the southern city of Basra, police and medics said.

Four blasts within minutes rocked the centre of the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk on Friday, injuring at least 27 people in what prosecutors believed was a terrorist attack, officials said.