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Seismologists and geologists universally agree that predicting an earthquake is not possible.

Over 1,500 people have been killed in the 7.9-magnitude earthquake, which jolted large parts of Nepal, India, Bangladesh as well as Tibet on Saturday.

The Yoga teacher also said that he saw a multi-story building collapsing and many people were trapped inside it.

The avalanche buried part of the base camp for climbers bound for Everest, according to Gyanendra Shrestha at the ministry in Kathmandu.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday spoke to chief ministers of Bihar and Sikkim amid efforts to get information about the situation after the earthquake.

The two workers were awarded the Public Spiritedness Award for their actions in helping the toddler.

The ground shook near a New Jersey military base as an explosives team detonated a 500-pound World War II-era bomb that had been found on the campus of a community college.

A Chinese court has declared "illegal" a "poetic" name given by a father to his daughter, as under the new rules parents have to name their wards after close relatives to discourage new trends of fashionable or unorthodox names.

While Xi is expected to take Modi to the Wild Goose Pagoda, a spiritual structure in the ancient city of Xian, built to highlight famous Chinese Buddhist monk Xuan Zang's journey to India in 645 AD.

The men were convicted on charges of violence, kidnapping and torture stemming from the killing of protesters during demonstrations in 2012.

Annah Sophia Stevenson told Fairfax New Zealand that she bought a Big Mac meal on Saturday night then found the cockroach when she was back at home and part-way through eating the burger.

Whether Ethiopia would or could respond with similar military force remains unclear.

As of November 2014, Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism internet unit had targeted 55,000 sites and forums hosting jihadist material.

Muslims are expected to surpass Jews as the second largest religious group in the US in 2050 owing to their continuous migration and the highest fertility rate, according to a study.

"All China's nuclear reactors under construction are well managed," Tang Bo, an official with the National Nuclear Safety Administration, said in an interview earlier this week.

"Canada's trade in nuclear materials with India is a direct violation of the NPT, yet we resumed trading equipment and fissionable materials with India in 2013," said Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada.