DHAKA: Jordan says it is willing to hand over an Iraqi woman on death row in exchange for a Jordanian pilot being held by Islamic State (IS) militants.The offer comes ahead of a 24-hour deadline by IS to kill Moaz al-Kasasbeh and Japanese hostage Kenji Goto, reports the BBC.The

DHAKA: Four people were killed on Wednesday when a Vietnamese military helicopter crashed minutes after it set off from southern Ho Chi Minh City.An army official told the media, reports The Straits Times.The UH-1 helicopter, known as a Huey, lost contact just eight minutes after

DHAKA: The US National Weather Service (NWS) has admitted its forecasts were wrong, after predicting a ‘potentially historic blizzard’ would strike.The storm piled deep snow on Connecticut and Massachusetts, but New York City was largely spared.The city's mayor, Bill de Blasio,

DHAKA: The president of the World Bank has warned that the world is "dangerously unprepared" for future deadly pandemics like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.Jim Yong Kim, speaking in Washington, said it was vital that governments, corporations, aid agencies and insurance companies

DHAKA: Gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Libya's capital, killing at least 11 people, including three guards and five foreigners, before blowing themselves up after being surrounded by security, officials said.The attack, which included the use of a car bomb, struck the popular

DHAKA: Riot police and protesters fought running battles in the Kosovo capital Pristina Tuesday as anti-government protests erupted into the worst unrest since the former Serbian province seceded in 2008.A media reporter saw masked police officers firing tear gas and water cannon,

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama landed in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to shore up ties with new King Salman and offer condolences after the death of his predecessor and half-brother, King Abdullah.Air Force One touched down at King Khalid International Airport in the capital Riyadh,

DHAKA: Fighters of the Islamic State (IS) group in Libya have claimed an attack on Tripoli’s luxurious Corinthia Hotel,.The SITE Intelligence monitoring group said on Tuesday.In a message on Twitter, the IS branch in western Libya said that its militants had stormed the hotel, which

DHAKA: South Sudanese rebels on Tuesday released 280 child soldiers, the first batch of some 3,000 to be freed but with thousands more still fighting.The UN children's agency said, reports The Straits Times.Some 12,000 children, mainly boys, have been forcibly recruited by armed

DHAKA: A Greek F-16 fighter jet crashed into other planes on the ground during Nato training in southeastern Spain on Monday, killing at least 10 people.Spain’s defense ministry said, reports The Times of India.Another 13 people were injured in the incident at the Los Llanos base,

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama will host a town hall-style meeting in India on Tuesday, seeking to stress the shared values of the world’s largest democracies as he wraps up a visit aimed at reinvigorating their sometimes tense ties.The speech to around 1,500 young Indians comes

DHAKA: Australia faced a rise in temperature of potentially more than 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, an increase that would outpace global warming worldwide, the country’s national science agency said on Tuesday.In its most comprehensive

DHAKA: An emergency has been declared in several US states as a storm bringing hurricane-force winds and 90cm (36ins) of snow barrels down on the north-east.Boston, New York and Philadelphia began shutting down Monday evening (local time) as the flurries began, with the worst

DHAKA: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has announced plans to disband Argentina’s intelligence agency, reports BBC.In a TV address, she said she would draft a bill to set up a new body.Fernandez said the intelligence services had kept much of the same structure they had

DHAKA: Alexis Tsipras, leader of far-left Syriza party has sworn in as new Prime Minister of Greech after winning in the general election.He vowed to uphold the constitution and serve the Greek people, reports BBC.In a break with tradition, Tsipras took a secular oath, rather than the

DHAKA: Anti-austerity Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras has vowed to end Greece’s ‘five years of humiliation and pain’ after his general election win.Before cheering supporters, Tsipras again pledged to renegotiate Greece’s massive international bailout.With nearly all of the

DHAKA: The two sons of Hosni Mubarak have been released from jail, a day after the fourth anniversary of the uprising that ousted the former Egyptian president.Alaa and Gamal Mubarak walked free from Cairo’s Torah Prison shortly after daybreak on Monday and headed to their homes in

DHAKA: Almost 200 million people in East Asia moved to urban areas in the decade up to 2010, the World Bank said on Monday, creating a massive challenge to the region’s planners.About 36 percent of people in the region, which under the World Bank’s definition includes North-east

DHAKA: Indian president Pranab Mukherjee gave a stern assessment of India 65 years after it declared itself a republic, criticising parliamentary dysfunction and the overuse of decrees in a message that might also resonate with his visitor, United States president Barack Obama.In a

DHAKA: India is celebrating its 66th Republic Day on Monday with US president Barack Obama as chief guest.Four helicopters with the tricolour and the flags of the three services flew over a wet Rajpath as the Republic Day parade began this morning. US president Barack Obama is the