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The Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group considered Talley to be the world's oldest person, based on available records, followed by Susannah Jones of Brooklyn, New York.

The deal is believed to be signed after the conclusion of Army chief General Raheel Sharif's three-day visit to Moscow. An agreement would be signed 'very soon', the Dawn quoted a defence official as saying.

"It is completely unacceptable that Swedish citizens are travelling to (join) IS, financing the organisation, or fighting for it," Justice Minister Morgan Johansson and Interior Minister Anders Ygeman wrote in a joint article in leading newspaper Dagens N...

Nearly two billion people across 192 nations would have participated in commemorating the first International Yoga Day by the end of June 21.

"The land reclamation project of China's construction on some stationed islands and reefs of the Nansha Islands, as planned, will be completed very soon," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said in Beijing.

Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, the former Pakistan president and Army chief cautioned India against what he calls "similar adventurism".

India's health and biopharma sector deserves better attention from the government to help realise its full potential and provide much cheaper health care and medicine to millions of patients, leading industry experts and academicians have said.

Indian economy saw the "strongest growth" in the first quarter of 2015 among large economies, including China, the US, Germany and Canada, according to Paris-based think tank OECD.

An official from northwest China's Qinghai Province allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday, less than a year after he was warned by the ruling Communist party for "disciplinary violations".

A group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for the hack and said it left messages on the US Army website.

Nepal's four major political parties on Monday agreed to adopt a federal system in the country with eight provinces.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP party won around 41 per cent of the votes in Sunday's election and was projected to take 258 seats — 18 below the minimum required to rule alone.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday called for removal of the "oppressive" western sanctions so that the country's economy can thrive.

Her visit comes at a time when China-Myanmar relations are experiencing border tensions over Myanmar crackdown on Kokang rebels prompting Beijing to conduct live military drills near the border.

"Beau Biden was an original. He was a good man. A man of character. A man who loved deeply and was loved in return," Obama said.

US President Barack Obama is committed to further intensifying relationship with India and the recent visit of a top American defence official is reflective of the depth of the ties, the White House has said.