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MELBOURNE - A study has found that children who spend equal time with both parents after a divorce or separation are doing well, though not better or worse than children who spend most time with their mothers.

KABUL - American Marines deployed in war-torn Afghanistan have said that they are prepared for the long haul, and determined to neutralise the Taliban's aggressive designs.

LONDON - Despite the growing use of Internet for work, shopping and socialising, as many as one in five Brit adults says they have never gone online.

JAMMU - Legislators in Jammu and Kashmir are set to get higher salaries in September as a pending bill seeking enhancement in their emoluments would be brought in the autumn session of the legislature.

SRINAGAR - Hardline woman separatist leader Asiya Andrabi, believed to be one of the masterminds of the current unrest in the Kashmir Valley, was arrested from a house in Zakura area of summer capital Srinagar, police said.