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Over 2,000 have died at sea so far this year, including 30-40 on Friday who were reported drowned off Libya's coast.

"It is a privilege to be back amongst the most talented journalists and executives in the business," she said in a statement. Brooks will replace Mike Darcey, who became chief executive in 2012.

Posturing on Kashmir gets Pakistan nowhere but its leaders feel they need to do it any way to maintain support, said a former Pakistani envoy.

Egypt's legislative elections, the first since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took office, are to be contested in phases starting October 17, the electoral commission announced on Monday.

Internet sensation Grumpy Cat will become the first feline to have an animatronic wax statue at Madame Tussauds museum in San Francisco.

The Israeli leader is on a tour of Italy, his first major overseas visit since being re-elected in June

Pakistan's National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz on Sunday accused India of acting as a "regional superpower".

The Hawker Hunter fighter jet crashed onto the A27 road, close to an airport in Shoreham where the airshow was taking place, near the city of Brighton.

Finance Ministers of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) including from India gathered in Kathmandu on Thursday to discuss closer economic cooperation in the region, including connectivity.

The UNP won 45.7 percent of the popular vote, ahead of 42.4 percent for Rajapaksa.

The US on Monday offered help to probe the terrorist attack that killed Pakistan's Punjab province Home Minister at his ancestral home.

At least 80 people were detained when they were trying to enforce a general strike for the second day on Monday to protest plans to restructure Nepal as a federal state with six provinces in the new Constitution.

Gul remained ISI chief during 1987 and 1989 when the US-backed Afghanistan's war against the then Soviet Union was at the last stages.

Malaysia, China and Australia will meet in September to "refine" the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after part of the plane's wing was discovered on an Indian Ocean island in July, more than a year on from its tragic disappearance.

President Mamnoon Hussain on Friday said Pakistan wants peaceful coexistence with all its neighbours, including India, but any threat to its security will be thwarted.