DHAKA: Four suicide bombers stormed the police headquarters in a town north of Baghdad at dawn on Saturday, killing six Swat officers after a one-hour shootout.Iraqi security sources said, reports The Straits Times.The bombers shot dead the guards outside the compound in the town of

DHAKA: India’s Uttar Pradesh Police Saturday arrested BSP MLA Noor Salim Rana and BJP MLA Sangeet Som for their alleged role in the Muzaffarnagar riots.The Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Noor Salim Rana was arrested from Muzaffarnagar for his alleged role in riots. Rana is the third MLA to be

DHAKA: Syrian troops backed by pro-regime militia killed at least 15 people in a Sunni village in the central province of Hama late Friday.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, TDS reports on Saturday.The group, which relies on a network of activists, doctors and lawyers on the

DHAKA: Iraq’s Kurds voted on Saturday in their first election in four years as their autonomous region grapples with disputes with Baghdad while fellow Kurds fight bloody battles in neighbouring Syria.The election for the region’s parliament comes as the turmoil roiling the Middle

DHAKA: North Korea said on Saturday it was postponing indefinitely a series of reunions for families separated during the Korean War that had been scheduled to start next week, saying conservative forces in the South were using them to heighten confrontation.The six-day reunions were

DHAKA: French president Francois Hollande hopes to convince Iran to pursue a political solution to the civil war in Syria when he meets his Iranian counterpart next week.Hollande and Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, who took office last month, are due to meet on Tuesday on the sidelines

DHAKA: Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said he had arrived in Beijing on Saturday after accusing the United States of refusing his plane access to its airspace for the journey.‘I have just arrived in China to strengthen friendship and cooperation between our two countries,’ said

DHAKA: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founder of the Taliban, is released from prison in Pakistan, officials say. The move comes after persistent requests by the Afghan government which hopes it will help the peace process in the country.Mullah Baradar is one of the four men who founded

DHAKA: A four-megaton nuclear bomb was one switch away from exploding over the US in 1961, a newly declassified US document confirms.Two bombs were on board a B-52 plane that went into an uncontrolled spin over North Carolina - both bombs fell and one began the detonation process.The

NEWYORK: Bangladesh will be placed as a role model at the General Assembly of United Nation for achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG). Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will deliver her speech to unveil success stories of Bangladesh to the rest of the world.Hasina will fly to New York on

RIYADH: Zam Zam office targeted that they would supply 34 Millions (380 lakhs) liters of Zam Zam water to pilgrims on the current hajj season. Zam Zam office chairman Suleiman Abu Gelya said that more than 1,100 staffers, including some temporary workers, will distribute Zamzam water to

DHAKA: The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) says it has begun to examine the first details of Syria`s chemical arsenal supplied by the government of President Bashar al-Assad.China urged a quick implementation of a landmark US-Russian deal to destroy

DHAKA: Voters in Sri Lanka`s north have begun electing their first ever semi-autonomous council, four years after the army defeated Tamil Tiger rebels.The Tamil-majority Northern Province, which was first promised such a body decades ago, is the only region which has never had its own

DHAKA: Former Afghan Taliban second-in-command Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is to be released from prison in Pakistan on Saturday, the foreign ministry says.A spokesman said the release was to "further facilitate the Afghan reconciliation process".Mullah Baradar is one of the four men who

LONDON: The Qatar based Al Jazeera TV broadcast a documentary on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made by international eminent journalist late David Frost.The documentary titled “Bangabandhu, the hero of liberation” was aired at GMT 20:00 on September 20.This is the last documentary

DHAKA: America`s top diplomat pressed hard Thursday for international action in Syria in the wake of last month`s chemical weapons attack, saying "the U.N. Security Council must be prepared to act next week" given a report he says shows Syria`s government is culpable.Speaking ahead of

DHAKA: A team of British researchers has developed a model for determining how long a planet can expect to be within its sun’s habitable zone – the sweet spot just far enough to the sun so that the planet’s water doesn’t sizzle into vapor but just close enough to the sun so that

DHAKA: The Philippines and Taiwan are braced for super typhoon Usagi, which meteorologists say could become the most powerful storm of 2013.The typhoon was 560km (350 miles) east-southeast of Taiwan and 360km (225 miles) from the northern Philippines on Friday morning, weather officials

DHAKA: Former first daughter Caroline Kennedy has sailed through a confirmation hearing on her way to becoming the US ambassador to Japan.Ms Kennedy, 55, the only surviving child of former President John Kennedy, told a Senate panel she would focus on trade and military ties if

DHAKA: At least 87 people have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria`s north-eastern Borno state, according to local officials.Disguised in military uniforms, the militants set up checkpoints outside the town of Benisheik and shot dead those trying to flee, witnesses