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san antonio: Ammonium nitrate was the cause of the explosion at a West, Texas, fertiliser plant last month that left 14 people dead and some 200 injured, investigators have confirmed.

MADRID: A Spanish court suspended charges against Princess Cristina yesterday, stating a lack of evidence that King Juan Carlos's daughter, 47, had been involved in a case of embezzlement involving her husband.

three women found alive after vanishing in their own neighbourhood a decade ago were rescued from a house authorities tried to visit several years ago.

LAHORE: Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan injured his head after falling off a mechanical lift raising him on to a stage at a rally four days before national elections, party and medical officials said.

A prominent politician in Curacao was shot dead on a beach in broad daylight, sending shockwaves across the small Dutch Caribbean island.

The uncle of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has arrived in Massachusetts to arrange for his burial.

RUSSIA fears the likelihood of foreign military intervention in Syria is growing in the wake of Israeli airstrikes around Damascus, which Moscow says are of "particular alarm".

Faced with hefty operating costs, the foundation building the 9/11 museum at the World Trade Centre will charge an admission fee of up to $25 (£16) when the site opens next year.

Syria has condemned Israeli airstrikes against targets around Damascus, saying the attacks give direct military support to terrorist groups fighting the government.

The wreckage of a Russian light aircraft that disappeared last June with 13 people on board has been discovered by hunters just a few miles from where the plane took off near the Urals city of Yekaterinburg.

Islamist-ruled Egypt is open to visitors who drink alcohol and wear bikinis as it sets out to boost numbers by at least one-fifth this year, its tourism minister said.

Independent online media in Malaysia have said that in the run-up to today's election they have been targeted in attacks which filter content and throttle access to websites, threatening to deprive voters of their main source of independent reporting.

AS a poster boy for the new, less violent Rio de Janeiro, Diego Raimundo Silva dos Santos could hardly be improved upon.

Afghan president Hamid Karzai has said the director of the CIA has assured him that regular funding his government receives from the US agency will not be cut off.