Missouri: Most of its residents left, the school closed, the city government was disbanded and starting this week nearly every commercial building in Picher, Oklahoma, will be demolished.

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Cairo: Thousands of anti-government protesters clashed with police in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria on Saturday after President Hosni Mubarak spurned demands that he end his 30-year authori

Jan. 27: The Egyptian police fought protesters in two cities in eastern Egypt on Thursday and prominent reform campaigner Moham-ed ElBaradei headed back to the country to join demonstrators trying to

Apple removed a notorious anthem of the Nazi Party from the German version of its iTunes online music store on Wednesday, a German spokesman for the US firm said.

London: British police arrested five young men on Thursday as they and U.S. authorities conducted searches as part of a probe into Internet activists who carried out cyber attacks against groups they

Cairo, Egypt: Calm returned to the streets of Cairo at daybreak on Wednesday after a night and a day of unprecedented demonstrations calling for President Hosni Mubarak to end his 30-year rule.

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An announcement from ICICI Bank Ltd:

* ICICI Q3 net profit 14.37 billion rupees

* Consensus forecast for India's ICICI Q3 net profit 13.5 billion rupees

* ICICI says Q3 net interest income at 23.12

London: Scientists say they are close to achieving a 200-year-old goal of creating a universal system of measurements based on stable quantities, as they progress towards changing how the kilogram is

Jerusalem, Jan. 24: Palestinian negotiators secretly told Israel it could keep swathes of occupied East Jerusalem, according to leaked documents that show Palestinians offering much bigger peace conce

Islamabad, Jan. 23 : Relatives of a teenage Pakistani girl have electrocuted her for falling in love with a man they did not approve of, police said on Sunday.

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