UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed a call from US president-elect Donald Trump for unity after what has been described as a bitter and divisive presidential campaign....
    
  At least 43 people were killed and around 100 injured on Saturday in a bombing at a Sufi Muslim shrine in Pakistan's Balochistan province. ...
    
  The top leader of the Jihadist Islamic State (IS) has fled Mosul, last extremist enclave left on Iraqi soil, according to the governor of the Nineveh province in Iraq....
    
  The opposition parties on Saturday said the central government's move to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes had caused enormous hardship to people, with the Aam Aadmi Party and Trinamool Congress demanding its rollback. ...
    
  The opposition parties on Saturday said the central government's move to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes had caused enormous hardship to people, with the Aam Aadmi Party and Trinamool Congress demanding its rollback. ...
    
  Acknowledging the hardship being faced by people in India post the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the government will go through all personal records since Independence, if required, on the issue of black money and no violator would be spared....
    
  Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said around Rs 2 lakh crore has been deposited till 12.15 p.m. on Saturday in banks across the country, following the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes....
    
  Several customers have vented their anger at automated teller machines after failing to take out money from their accounts, according to officials....
    
  Tempers ran high as millions of anxious cash-starved people waited for hours for the third day in a row on Saturday outside overworked banks to deposit or exchange their spiked denomination notes or withdraw cash from heavily crowded ATMs across India....
Concluding his three-day visit to Japan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for India from the Japanese city of Osaka on Saturday. ...