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New Delhi: The police are expecting a breakthrough soon in Baby Falak's case. They say they may be close to nabbing the key suspect. "We are trying to establish the identity of her real parents," said Ajai Chaudhari, Additional Commissioner of Police, South East Delhi...

Saudi rights groups claimed on Wednesday that a decision to sentence a woman to 10 lashes for driving her car was payback by the ruling class for this week's landmark speech by King Abdullah, which cleared the way for women to participate in elections. The sentence is believed to be the first...

In what is being hailed as a cancer treatment breakthrough, three men suffering late-stage leukemia were cured in just three weeks after being treated with genetically engineered versions of their own immune cells. The findings are the first demonstration of the use of gene transfer therapy...

GENEVA — Scientists claimed a breakthrough Thursday in solving one of the biggest riddles of physics, successfully trapping the first "anti-atom" in a quest to understand what happened to all the antimatter that has vanished since the Big Bang. An international team of physicists at the...

A statement by the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) could now be the first sign of a breakthrough in the tense standoff in Punjab. The SGPC has appealed to the Sikh community to maintain calm even if the Dera Sacha Sauda centres in Punjab don't shut down by Sunday. More...