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President Barack Obama was not on the premises when the incident took place at around 3:06 PM.

Ecuador's national geological institute, which measured the quake at 6.8, said it struck at 2:57 AM local time (13:27 IST) in the South American country's western Manabi region.

Seven people died at the scene on US Highway 83 about 46 miles north of Laredo and another died later at a Laredo hospital, Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Conrad Hein said.

According to the Pentagon, China is working on a range of technologies to attempt to counter the US and other countries' ballistic missile defence systems.

The Islamic State group and a Bangladeshi branch of Al-Qaeda have said they carried out several of the killings.

The report in Saturday's Le Parisien, citing French and Belgian intelligence material and police recordings, lists repeated occasions when authorities allegedly failed to catch Abaaoud, even though he had been considered a major threat by several European...

Voters began casting their ballots after polling stations opened in what could be a make or break vote for Texas Senator Ted Cruz in his bid to stop Trump.

Authorities are investigating whether the killing of Nikhil Joarder was connected to a 2012 complaint against him for alleged comments he made against the Prophet Muhammad, said Aslam Khan, a police officer in the district of Tangail, where the attack too...

The biological parentage of the egg is unclear, and zoo keepers also don't know yet whether it is fertilised.

Obama and the prince, formally known as the Duke of Edinburgh, got in the front of the Range Rover while the queen and First Lady sat in the back.