Octogenarian Japanese climber aims for Everest record

(Photo: REUTERS / Navesh Chitrakar)Children living in a slum search for recyclable material, while the world commemorates the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, on the bank of Bagmati River in Kathmandu October 17, 2011. Children ...

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Therapeutic transplant -- the first of its kind in Maryland -- can bump survival rate from near zero to 70-80 percent Transplant surgeons at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Medical Center have performed a liver transplant on a ...

Navesh Chitrakar / REUTERS A member of a bomb disposal team holds onto a pressure cooker after a bomb scare in Kathmandu June 9, 2011. Authorities are now sayingthe explosive devices used in the Boston attack were fashioned from pressure cookers.

Peter Moody had stated that Black Caviar wouldn't attempt to record a 15th straight Group One victory in Saturday's T.J. Smith Stakes if the going at Randwick was heavy but his star mare now looks set to take her chance. The going matched that ...

Track and analyse performance of all BSE sectoral indices and other global indices on a single page. Full Coverage Workers load goods on a truck along the streets of Delhi, October 22, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar/Files MUMBAI (Reuters) - ...

NOT running if the track is heavy. Not certain to run if it is slow. They are the ground rules surrounding a start for Black Caviar, who is scheduled to chase her 25th win without loss at Randwick on Saturday in the $1 million T J Smith Stakes ...

KATHMANDU : Nepalese police arrested protesters for attacking a media vehicle and threatening people on Sunday as transportation across the country was blocked by groups opposing elections. The nationwide strike was called by a coalition of 33 ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- On the morning of Feb. 13, Drupchen Tsering, a Buddhist monk from Tibet, walked out of a restaurant here in Nepal's capital, dripping with gasoline. In front of the Bouddhanath Stupa, one of the holiest Buddhist shrines in the ...