DHAKA: A ceremony was held in New York to honour black civil rights leader Malcolm X at the site where he was assassinated 50 years ago.Activists, politicians and actors were among some 300 people who paid tributes to Malcolm X in Harlem, reports the BBC.They heard a call by one of his

DHAKA: Greece will crack down on tax evasion and streamline its civil service in its bid to secure a bailout extension.Minister of state Nikos Pappas says, reports the BBC.The government is working on a package of reforms that it must submit to international creditors on Monday.If the

DHAKA: Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water to the sea, the plant’s operator announced Sunday, highlighting difficulties in decommissioning the crippled plant.Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the sensors, which were rigged to

DHAKA: Shibaji Panja, an associate of Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee who accompanied her to Bangladesh, was detained at the Kolkata airport on his return on Saturday night.Panja is a small-time businessman who has become increasingly close to the chief minister over the past

DHAKA: Yemen's former president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has fled the capital, Sanaa, weeks after he was put under house arrest by Houthi rebels who forced him to resign.Hadi later arrived in the main southern city of Aden.It comes a day after rival parties agreed on the formation of a

DHAKA: A bitter, record-setting cold air mass kept its icy grip on much of the central and eastern U.S. on Friday, bringing subzero temperatures and showing no sign of relief next week for winter-weary residents from Florida to New England. At least 72 record low temperatures were set

DHAKA: A huge fire engulfed one of the world's tallest residential towers in Dubai's Marina district, sending bright yellow flames several stories high, but there were no reports of casualties, civil defence officials said. The fire broke out at about 2am on Saturday in the 86-storey

DHAKA: A joint Iraqi-Kurdish military force of up to 25,000 fighters is being prepared to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State (IS).A US official says, reports the BBC.The senior military official has said that the operation to recapture the northern city would probably

DHAKA: A powerful cyclone roared ashore in a heavily-populated area of Australia on Friday with authorities warning of a ‘calamity’ and residents told to expect ‘a harrowing and terrifying experience’.Tropical Cyclone Marcia slammed into the Queensland coast just after 2200

DHAKA: The United States and Turkey signed a deal to train and equip thousands of moderate Syrian rebel forces after several weeks of talks.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.‘Turkey and the United States signed a document a short time ago on the train-and-equip

DHAKA: Germany has rejected a Greek request for a six-month extension to its eurozone loan programme.The rejection came despite the European Commission calling the Greek request ‘positive’ only minutes earlier.Greece had sought a new six-month assistance package, rather than a

DHAKA: Bitterly cold air from Siberia has brought dangerously frigid and likely record-setting temperatures to the eastern half of the US.Temperatures are 20 to 40 degrees F below normal for February from the Mid-Atlantic to the South.Schools in Chicago have closed and trains in the

DHAKA: France’s Socialist government won a confidence vote tied to its economic reform package on Thursday that could in theory have caused its collapse amid a damaging backbench rebellion.A total of 234 mainly opposition deputies voted for the motion of no-confidence, far short of

DHAKA: South African president Jacob Zuma on Thursday denied that he was a racist and assured white people that they should not fear being ‘chased’ out of Nelson Mandela’s ‘Rainbow Nation’.The president also said that a new law preventing foreign ownership of land in South

DHAKA: Talks between the United States and Iran on the Tehran's nuclear program will resume in Geneva on Friday, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said.A final outcome to what has been monthslong series of negotiations is expected to have a lasting effect on Iran's

DHAKA: Thailand's attorney-general has filed criminal charges against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra over a controversial rice subsidy scheme.If found guilty on the charge of negligence, she could be jailed for up to 10 years, reports the BBC.The anti-corruption agency has

DHAKA: Libya has asked the UN Security Council to lift an arms embargo so that it can deal with the Islamic State (IS) group and other militants.Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Dairi said that it would help the government build its army and deal with "rampant terrorism".Egypt said it

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama says the US is "not at war with Islam - we are at war with the people who have perverted Islam".Obama was speaking to representatives from 60 nations attending a three-day event on extremism that follows attacks in Denmark and France.He said those

DHAKA: More than 300 Boko Haram fighters have been killed in military operations in north-east Nigeria.The army says, reports the BBC.A number of militants had also been captured and weapons and equipment seized, defence spokesman Chris Olukolade said.Two soldiers had lost their lives

DHAKA: Countries across Asia are beginning Lunar New Year celebrations to welcome in the year of the sheep.In China, hundreds of millions of people are travelling home in what is considered the world’s biggest annual human migration.State media says about three billion passenger trips