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Evening wrap: Jayalalithaa funeral live updates, Shah Rukh's role cut in Dear Zindagi, hungry Spiderweb Galaxy, and more

Read about French prime minister resigning to join presidential race, and Oakland fire death toll rising to 36.

Dec 6, 2016

Jayalalithaa dead: Is December jinxed for Tamil Nadu?

Jayalalithaa's mentor MGR had died on December 24, 1987.

Dec 6, 2016

Southern rail boss apologises for Christmas travel chaos amid RMT and Aslef strikes

One of the bosses of GTR, who run under-fire rail company Southern, has apologised for the travel chaos commuters will face throughout December. The RMT and Aslef unions have called for a number of strikes across the month over a long-running dispute about the changing role of conductors on trains. Alex Foulds, the deputy chief operating officer for GTR, also called the Southern service very poor and said it was not good enough.

Dec 6, 2016

Donald Trump's security in New York City will cost America $35 million

De Blasio had earlier said that it takes $1 million every day to provide security to Trump's home in New York City.

Dec 6, 2016

French President Hollande names Bernard Cazeneuve as new Prime Minister

Cazeneuve's role will be to act as a caretaker Prime Minister until a new government is formed next year.

Dec 6, 2016

Jayalalithaa funeral: Tributes pour in for Amma from across the nation

International Business Times had asked you to post tributes to Jayalalithaa, and here are the messages.

Dec 6, 2016

Jayalalithaa's death: Jesus, this is the only Malayalam film featuring the actress-turned-politician

Malayalam movie Jesus, directed by PA Thomas, was released in 1973.

Dec 6, 2016

Manuel Valls resigns as French PM, joins 2017 presidential race

The 54-year-old secretary of the Democratic Party announced his candidacy in a speech from his political base in the Paris suburb of Evry.

Dec 6, 2016

Bank of England governor Mark Carney: There are ‘high levels’ of inequality in UK

Delivering the Liverpool John Moores Universitys Roscoe Lecture, Mark Carney warned that the UK is going through the first “lost decade” of economic growth for 150 years, and lamented high levels of inequality in the country.

Dec 6, 2016

Jayalalithaa funeral: President Pranab Mukherjee, PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi and others pay tributes

Many political leaders, film stars and other dignitaries from across the country have paid tributes to Jayalalithaa.

Dec 6, 2016

Jayalalithaa dies at 68: How the world media covered her demise

The true extent of Jayalalithaa's influence became apparent in the manner in which leading news outlets across the globe covered her death.

Dec 6, 2016

After Gali Janardhana Reddy, Kerala liquor baron Biju Ramesh splurges on daughter's gala wedding; watch marriage videos

Biju Ramesh's daughter Megha got married to Adoor Prakash's son, Ajaykrishnan, on December 4.

Dec 6, 2016

India, Vietnam boost defence ties; IAF to train Hanoi's Sukhoi Su-30 pilots

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar met his Vietnamese counterpart General Ngo Xuan Lich in New Delhi.

Dec 6, 2016

Al Gore calls Donald Trump meeting ‘extremely interesting’

Former US Vice-president Al Gore, a prominent climate activist, met with President-elect Donald Trump on 5 December.Trump has called man-made climate change a hoax while Gore is one of the best known crusaders in the fight against it. During the 2016 US presidential election Gore said Trump’s polices would ‘take us toward a climate catastrophe’. After the meeting, Gore called it ‘extremely interesting’. After the election on 22 November, Trump said that he had an ‘open mind’ on the Paris Agreement on climate change - in stark contrast to what he said on his election campaign.

Dec 6, 2016

#Banaissafe: 7-year-old Syrian activist 'safe,' Twitter account reappears

There were fears about the Syrian girl's safety, but the British media on Tuesday reported that the girl was 'safe.'

Dec 6, 2016