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Asaram appeared broken after conviction, kept telling lawyers to 'do something': Jail officials

Asaram was on Wednesday found guilty of raping a teenage girl at his ashram near Jodhpur in 2013. The sentence was passed inside Jodhpur Central Jail — where Asaram has been lodged since 2013 — itself. 

After hugs and kisses, Macron tears into Trump. Says forget America First, 'make our planet great again'

A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the US president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.

Train collides with school van in UP, 13 children dead

Thirteen schoolchildren have died in Uttar Pradesh after a train collided with the van they were travelling in. 

Taliban announce spring offensive, dismisses peace overtures

The Taliban announced the start of its annual spring offensive on Wednesday, dismissing an offer for peace talks by President Ashraf Ghani and saying it will focus on U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Elon Musk's next project? He says he's 'building a cyborg dragon'

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk never fails to take the world by surprise and his latest Twitter post seems to have reinstated the same. Earlier today Musk announced his latest project, a 'cyborg dragon'.