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SYDNEY: An Australian man who raped and strangled his Indian student neighbor and threw her body into a canal in a suitcase was jailed yesterday for 45 years for the "horrifying" murder.<

LONDON: One quarter of British lawmakers believe there is an "unhealthy" drinking culture in the Houses of Parliament, according to a survey published yesterday.

MANILA: A clan whose chiefs are on trial for the Philippines’ worst political massacre secured big wins in local elections this week, results showed yesterday, deepening fears that justice ma

TAIPEI/MANILA: Taiwan’s leader yesterday called for calm and promised to protect Filipinos on the island amid widespread anger at the Philippines over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman.

HONG KONG: Sixty-two people were injured when a two-car train derailed on Hong Kong’s light railway in the north of the city, throwing passengers onto the floor, police said yesterday.

CANNES, France: Jewelry worth more than $ 1 million due to be loaned to stars treading the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival was stolen in a pre-dawn heist yesterday but the coveted Palme d&r

BUENOS AIRES: Former dictator Jorge Videla, who ruled Argentina during its “Dirty War,” died in prison Friday while serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity. He was 87.

After scrambling up a steep mountainside in north Afghanistan, Morad Ali crouches beside a gap cut in the slope and touches some reddish-brown rock. “The gold is in here,” he says.

WASHINGTON: The Sun has unleashed four potent solar flares this week, marking the most intense activity yet this year and causing limited interruptions to high-frequency radio communications.

LOS ANGELES: NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system