India's infrastructure sector is poised for a big leap and offers significant investment opportunities for US businesses and other investors, Planning Commission Member B.K. Chaturvedi has said.

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Two US Marines will face trial by courts martial for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and posing for photographs with them, the Pentagon said on Monday.

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Scientists said on Monday they have new evidence about why women live longer than men, from a study of historical data showing castrated Koreans far outlived their non-eunuch contemporaries.

Egypt's new Islamist president Mohamed Morsi urged the United States late on Saturday to change its approach to the Arab world to be able to repair relations and revitalise an alliance with Egypt.

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A US airline passenger who lost his iPad on board used a special app to find it, in the home of one of the flight attendants, police said.

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Ties between Pakistan and the US are improving after hitting a low point, Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar insisted Friday, even as violent anti-US protests rocked her country.

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An obese death row inmate in the US state of Ohio has asked a court for a stay of execution, saying lethal injection would be 'torturous and lingering' due to his weight.

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The city of New Jersey has been introduced with a state bill that would require drivers to secure pets in seat belts, or pay fines up to 1,000 dollars.

New Jersey Assemblywoman L. Grace Spencer, who

The visiting Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has sought a reliable and achievable plan from the US on Afghanistan and pushed for a free trade agreement between the two countries.

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The last of the 33,000 US soldiers that President Barack Obama sent to Afghanistan nearly three years ago as part of a military surge has left the country, US defense officials said Thursday.

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