DHAKA: Ten Iraqi Kurd Peshmerga fighters have entered the besieged Syrian town of Kobane on the Turkish border. Syrian opposition activists say, reports the BBC. Dozens more are expected to join them in helping Syrian Kurds defend the strategic town against besieged by Islamic State

DHAKA: Protesters angry at plans to allow Burkina Faso’s president Blaise Compaore to extend his 27-year-rule have set fire to parliament. The BBC’s Laeila Adjovi in the capital, Ouagadougou, say the city hall and ruling party headquarters are also in flames. The security forces

DHAKA: Pakistani teenage rights activist and also Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has donated $50,000 to help rebuild UN schools in Gaza that have been damaged during the recent fighting in the enclave. ‘We must all work to ensure Palestinian boys and girls, and all children

DHAKA: Sweden has officially recognised the state of Palestine, the Swedish foreign minister said, less than a month after Stockholm announced its intention to make the controversial move. ‘Today the government takes the decision to recognise the state of Palestine,’ Margot

HAKA: Delhi’s air has again made headlines for the wrong reasons. The US embassy’s pollution monitor at Chanakyapuri on Wednesday measured air quality at ‘very unhealthy’ levels, prompting a post in an international news portal warning against letting children outdoors for

DHAKA: Far fewer Chinese couples applied to have a second child than expected after a relaxation of the country’s ‘one child’ policy, state-run media reported on Thursday, highlighting the ageing nation’s demographic challenges. The world’s most populous country has restricted

DHAKA: Rescue workers in Sri Lanka have intensified their search for survivors of a tea plantation landslide in the centre of the country which is feared to have buried more than 100 people. Five excavators normally used to dig trenches joined the search effort at first light on

DHAKA: A UN official has warned that Israel's plans for further settlements in East Jerusalem could ignite more violence and threaten the viability of the future Palestinian state. UN political chief Jeffrey Feltman called on Israel on Wednesday "to rescind" its plan to build 1,000 new

DHAKA: Zambian vice-president Guy Scott has been named acting leader following the death of president Michael Sata.Presidential elections to choose a permanent successor will be held within 90 days, defence minister Edgar Lungu said.Scott becomes Africa’s first white head of state since

DHAKA: More than 100 people are believed to have been killed on Wednesday in a landslide in hilly south-central Sri Lanka.The country’s disaster management minister Mahinda Amaraweera said, reports the BBC.‘More than 100 people are believed to have died,’ the minister told the

DHAKA: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has had surgery to remove a cyst from his ankle, according to South Korean intelligence.A spy agency briefing to lawmakers on Tuesday said that a foreign doctor operated on Kim in September or October, the BBC publishes this report on

DHAKA: Ukraine and Russia were set on Wednesday to resume crunch EU-mediated gas talks aimed at ending a months-long supply cut that threatens to hit swathes of Europe this winter.The latest negotiations in Brussels come a day after Russia stirred tensions with its war-torn neighbour

DHAKA: Rescuers are losing hope that 18 workers, trapped underground at a coal mine in southern Turkey, can be saved.Part of the pit flooded while the miners were working. They are said to be stuck 300m underground, reports the BBC.The accident comes less than six months after 301 workers

DHAKA: Schools in China’s mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, where a series of attacks has left hundreds dead in recent months, said they would actively discourage religious practice at home.China’s state-run media reported on Wednesday, according to The Straits Times.Principals at

DHAKA: At least 10 people are dead and hundreds are missing following a landslide in central Sri Lanka.Disaster officials tell the BBC.The landslide, which came after heavy monsoon rains, engulfed about 140 houses in Badulla district, officials said.Security forces have been mobilised in

DHAKA: Zambian president Michael Sata has died at the age of 77 after receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness.Family sources and Zambian media say, the BBC publishes this report on Wednesday.President Sata, who was being treated in the UK for the past week, died on Tuesday night,

DHAKA: Scientific theories including the ‘Big Bang’ believed to have brought the universe into being 13.7 billion years ago and the idea that life developed through a process of evolution do not conflict with Catholic teaching.Pope Francis said on Tuesday, The Straits Times

DHAKA: About 80 Iraqi Peshmerga fighters have arrived in Turkey enroute to the besieged Syrian town of Kobane to help fellow Kurds in their battle against the ISIL. They flew into the airport at Urfa and are bound for Suruc on the border with Syria. Another convoy of 70 fighters is

DHAKA: Afghanistan and China pledged a new long-term partnership with each other Thursday as Kabul’s new president Ashraf Ghani began a four-day visit while NATO combat troops prepare to withdraw from his country.Ghani, once a US-based academic, was sworn in as Afghanistan’s new

DHAKA: Germany’s foreign minister called Tuesday for a ‘vow of solidarity’ from the international community for millions of Syrian refugees and the countries such as Lebanon struggling to host them.Ahead of a one-day conference at his ministry in Berlin, Frank-Walter Steinmeier