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Britain's Anthony Joshua will defend his IBF and WBA heavyweight world titles against Kubrat Pulev of Bulgaria on 28 October. 36-year-old Pulev is the mandatory challenger to the IBF title held by Joshua. The bout will take place at Cardiff’s Principality...

Florida police say a couple flew 8,000 miles (13,000km) from India to the United States to help their son “discipline” his wife. 67-year-old Jasbir Kalsi and his 62-year-old wife Bhupinder Khalsi reportedly travelled from the Punjab region of India to...

Tajikistan has introduced legislation requiring citizens "stick to traditional national clothes and culture" – widely regarded as a move which is an attempt to stop women wearing Islamic clothing. Women in the Muslim-majority country wear a scarf tied behind the head...

City council leader John Clancy is under-fire after a leaked email showed he misled the public over the deal which would have ended the bin strike. Clancy claimed recently that no deal was struck between the authority and Unite with...

Junaid Hussain tried to persuade an undercover BBC reporter to carry out an attack on London Bridge, a year before terrorists struck killing eight and injuring others. BBC’s Inside Out London said, in a special report, that Hussain encouraged their...

In a cabinet reshuffle, India has appointed Nirmala Sitharaman as its first full time woman defence minister. The appointment of Ms Sitharaman on Sunday, who was previously a minister of state for commerce and industry, has been widely welcomed. She had...

A 12-year-old girl from Southern India has killed herself after her teacher allegedly embarrassed her over a blood stain from menstruation. A suicide note left by the girl, who jumped off a building near her home, accused the teacher of...

21 people have been killed and more than a dozen trapped after a four-storey building collapsed after monsoon downpours in Mumbai. The residential building gave way in the area of Bhendi Bazaar, where roads were drenched following rainfall which is...

A Pakistani court has acquitted five suspected Taliban members of conspiracy to murder former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Judges said there was a lack of evidence against them. Two policemen were jailed for 17 years, however, for negligence in failing...

Birmingham’s bin workers have returned to the picket lines with the strike back on following the falling through of a deal between Union and the council. The seven-week strike was suspended on 16th August after an initial agreement was made...