DHAKA: A passenger ship carrying 458 people sank Monday night in the Hubei section of China’s Yangtze River, reports xinhuanet.The ship, named Dongfangzhixing (Eastern Star), sank at around 9:28pm (11:28pm Bangladesh time) in the Jianli (Hubei Province) section of the Yangtze River,

DHAKA: A record-breaking attempt to cross the Pacific Ocean using a solar-powered plane has been aborted.Poor weather conditions are forcing the Solar Impulse craft to head back to Japan to land.The pilot was 36 hours into what was expected to be a six-day journey from China to Hawaii.The

DHAKA: The Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria has ramped up its activities in southeast Asia so effectively that there is now an entire military unit of terrorists recruited from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, according to Singapore’s Prime Minister.‘South-east Asia is a key

DHAKA: Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej has gone back into hospital, only a few weeks after being discharged.A statement from the palace on Sunday said he was undergoing tests at the Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok but did not say when he was likely to return to his home in the coastal

DHAKA: Public smoking in China's capital, Beijing, is now banned after the introduction of a new law.China has over 300 million smokers and over a million Chinese people die from smoking-related illnesses every year.Smoking bans already existed in China, but have largely failed to crack

DHAKA: The NSA has come under increased scrutiny since the Snowden revelationsUS anti-terror laws that allow security services to bulk collect phone data are set to expire after the Senate failed to reach a deal, reports bbc.comKey provisions of the law, known as the Patriot Act, will

DHAKA: A fire at a medical clinic in northeast Syria has killed 27 people, mostly children, say reports.Around 30 people were also injured when a fuel tank exploded at the Maysalun clinic in Qamishli, a Kurdish city on the Turkish border.Juan Mohammed, a Kurdish official in the nearby

DHAKA: Secretary of State John F. Kerry suffered a leg injury Sunday morning in an accident while bicycling and was transported by medical helicopter to a Geneva hospital, reports the Washington Post.Spokesman John Kirby said that Kerry, 71, did not lose consciousness, and that he was

DHAKA: Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg has begun his bid to cross the Pacific, from China to Hawaii, in the zero-fuel Solar Impulse aeroplane.The experimental aircraft, which has a wingspan bigger than a jumbo but weighs little more than a large car, left Nanjing at 02:39 (18:39 GMT).It is

DHAKA: 202 more deaths have been reported in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Odisha of India since Saturday, taking the number of people killed from heat wave in the country to over 2,200.In Andhra Pradesh, 146 more deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, while 52 more people died in

DHAKA: Former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the son of US Vice-President Joe Biden, has died of brain cancer.The 46-year-old was taken to hospital earlier this month at the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre, near Washington, reports BBC.Beau Biden was seen as a rising star of US

The European Union responded angrily to Russia's entry ban against 89 European politicians, officials and military leaders, reports BBC.Those banned are believed to include general secretary of the EU council Uwe Corsepius, and former British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg.Russia shared

DHAKA: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck in the ocean off Japan's remote Bonin Islands at 5:23 bangladesh Time on Saturday, USGS reports.There have been no immediate reports of casualties or damage, nor any tsunami alert.The populated area closest to the quake's epicenter is the Japanese

DHAKA: Italy helped rescue a total of more than 3,300 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean on Friday, the country's coastguard has said.In one operation, 17 bodies were found on three boats. Another 217 people who were on board were rescued.The coastguard said distress calls were

DHAKA: Gunmen in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province have attacked two buses, killing at least 19 passengers, officials have said.The province's Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti said unidentified militants boarded the vehicles travelling to Karachi on Friday evening, reports BBC.Passengers

DHAKA: Myanmar navy has seized a boat packed with 727 people off the country's southern coast, the government says, about a week after it found a similar boat it said carried around 200 Bangladeshi migrants.The nationality of the people on the boat was unclear, reports abc.net.au quoting

DHAKA: Tremors continued to rock Nepal following last month’s devastating earthquake as three aftershocks of over 4-magnitude were felt on Friday in central and northern parts of the country.A 4 magnitude tremor was recorded at 8.30 am with its epicenter located in Gorkha district,

DHAKA: The US Geological Survey says there has been a 6.8 magnitude off the southwest coast of Alaska on Friday. The epicenter is 110km south-southeast of Ugashik with the center estimated at 33km deep, reports the rt.com.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said that no tsunami was

DHAKA: Japanese authorities have told the residents of remote southern island Kuchinoerabu to evacuate after a violent eruption rocked the Mount Shindake volcano, reports the Voice of America.The Japan Metrological Agency said that no injuries were reported after the volcano erupted about

DHAKA: Thailand has 600 new "boat people" in temporary holding areas, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister General Tanasak Patimapragorn said on Friday.There were still more migrants out at sea, Tanasak said, talking to reporters at a press conference during a regional meeting on