WASHINGTON: President Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi set US-India ties on a higher plane on Tuesday with a high-minded and forward looking approach that transcended workaday wrinkles, past individual histories, and institutional wrangles.

DALLAS: US health officials said on Tuesday the first patient infected with the deadly Ebola virus had been diagnosed in the country, in a new sign of how the outbreak ravaging West Africa can spread globally.

KABUL: Afghan police say two suicide bombers in the capital have targeted two buses carrying Afghan army troops, killing seven and wounding 21 people.

BEIJING: As pro-democracy movement intensified in Hong Kong, China on Monday signaled it won't tolerate "disrupters" and "mischief-mongers", even as it betrayed its own increasing nervousness about the protests by canceling the island's national day celebrations on October 1 and ordering Chinese websites to delete any mention of the unrest. October 1 has traditionally emphasized nationalism in this former British colony.

LONDON: The UK on Monday expressed concern over the developing situation in Hong Kong and said that its prosperity and security were based on its fundamental rights and freedoms including the right to demonstrate.

HONG KONG: Police repeatedly fired tear gas in clashes with protesters fighting for democracy as parts of Hong Kong descended into chaos on Sunday with tens of thousands on the streets to demand Beijing grant the city full universal suffrage.

KABUL: Afghanistan will host a grand presidential inauguration on Monday, with former US-based academic Ashraf Ghani taking power as Nato troops end their 13-year war without defeating the fierce Taliban insurgency.

BEIRUT: The leader of al-Qaida's Syria affiliate vowed Sunday that his group would "use all possible means" to fight back against airstrikes by the US-led coalition and warned that the conflict would reach Western countries joining the alliance.

 MINSK, Belarus: Ukraine and the Russian-backed rebels have signed a cease-fire deal that starts in less than two hours, a European official at the talks said on Friday.

IENNA: Iran has failed to address concerns about suspected atomic bomb research by an agreed deadline, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Friday, a setback to hopes for an end to an international stand-off over Tehran's atomic activity.