UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon denounced the launch and asked North Korea to halt its 'provocative actions' and return to compliance with its international obligations.
US Republican front runner Donald Trump on Thursday came under a brutal attack from party's former presidential nominee Mitt Romney who called him "phony and a fraud".
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders cruised to early victories in the New Hampshire primary.
The Vermont Senator and Texas senator are closing in on the lead that their competitors - Clinton and Trump hold.
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Vice-President Hamid Ansari embarks on an important Latin American visit, heralding that resource-rich continent's importance to India.
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'We don't have to be the world's policeman. We don't have to impose our values. But we need to lead and when we pull back as we've done, you begin to see exactly what happens -- the voids are filled by threats of terror that countries have to suffer with, including India.'
Read the full transcript of President Obama's State of the Union address on Wednesday at the US Capitol in Washington.
