DHAKA: Britain said on Tuesday it was authorizing spy planes and armed drones to fly surveillance missions over Syria "very shortly" in order to gather intelligence on Islamic State (IS) militants.Britain announced the deployment after Turkey said on Monday it would allow Iraqi

DHAKA: The chief executive of French oil major Total, Christophe de Margerie, was killed in an airplane collision with a snowplow at Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport, airport spokeswoman Elena Krylova said on Tuesday."Tonight, a plane crashed when it collided with a

DHAKA: Oscar Pistorius was sentenced in South Africa on Tuesday to five years in prison for the 2013 shooting death of his then-girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp.He was also given a 3-year suspended sentence for a firearms conviction, reports the Huffington Post.Last month, Judge

DHAKA: South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is set to discover whether he faces a prison term for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.  Judge Thokozile Masipa has heard the prosecution call for a minimum 10-year sentence, against a defence argument for community service and

DHAKA: Heath Streak can relate his situation to Frank Lampard playing for Manchester City against Chelsea, where the English footballer played for 13 seasons.  In Streak's case the connection is deeper. He is a living legend in Zimbabwe who is now plotting against them as Bangladesh's

DHAKA: 14 women and three men have died in the fire that broke out at a firecracker factory in Andhra Pradesh on Monday, three days before the Diwali festival, ndtv.com reports on Tuesday. Six people died of severe burn injuries in hospital this morning.  The police say two more women

DHAKA: A child is killed by violence every five minutes in the world, a leading charity says, calling for new targets to end all forms of abuse by 2030. In a report, the UK's branch of the UN children's agency Unicef says most of those deaths occur outside war zones, reports BBC. It

DHAKA:  Vital supplies and resources to tackle Ebola are beginning to arrive in the three worst-hit West African countries, Ghana's President John Mahama has said. Mahama, who heads the regional bloc Ecowas, also told the BBC that treatment centres were being set up in Guinea, Liberia

DHAKA: ISIS militants launched about 15 near-simultaneous attacks on Kurdish forces in northern Iraq on Monday in what Kurdish government officials and the news agency Rudaw said was a fierce and renewed push for territory. ISIS also launched attacks against Mosul Dam, a strategic prize,

DHAKA:  The United Nations is preparing to impose sanctions on five prominent Yemenis, including Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former president. A UN panel of experts found that the individuals had been undermining Yemen's democratic transition. Three of those named are leaders of the Houthi

DHAKA: Joko Widodo, the winner of Indonesia's presidential election in July, has been sworn in as the leader of the South East Asian nation.Popularly known as Jokowi, the 53-year-old took the oath of office at a ceremony held at parliament in Jakarta, BBC reports. US Secretary of State

DHAKA: Joko Widodo, the winner of Indonesia's presidential election in July, has been sworn in as the leader of the South East Asian nation.Popularly known as Jokowi, the 53-year-old took the oath of office at a ceremony held at parliament in Jakarta, BBC reports. US Secretary of State

DHAKA: US military aircraft have dropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State (IS) militants in the key Syrian town of Kobane.US Central Command said C-130 transport aircraft had made ‘multiple’ drops, reports the BBC on Monday.Earlier

DHAKA: BJP wrested control of Haryana and was set to do so in Maharashtra on Sunday in an outcome that entrenches its status as the dominant political force and Narendra Modi as currently the country’s most popular politician. The ouster of the ruling party from these two states,

DHAKA: Nine people have been killed in new violence in the northeastern Libyan city of Benghazi where pro-government militias have launched an offensive against rival militias, raising the toll to 75 dead in five days according to medics.In the latest violence, a woman was killed in

DHAKA: A suicide bombing in a predominately Shia area of Baghdad has left 21 people dead and 25 people injured, CNN reports. Sources asked not to be identified for security reasons.The bomber targeted a Shia mosque in the city's northeast al Harithyia neighborhood, the source said.As of

DHAKA: Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko has confirmed that an agreement has been reached with Russia on a provisional price for gas deliveries during the coming winter months.Poroshenko said the deal was agreed at talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Milan on Friday,

DHAKA: Rescue teams in Nepal say that there are now no trekkers left stranded after completing their search for survivors of a devastating Himalayan storm.The focus now is on recovering bodies buried in the snow, a government spokesman told the BBC.It is unclear how many people may

DHAKA: A Pakistani police officer has said unknown gunmen have shot eight people dead and injured one in an insurgency-hit part of southwestern Pakistan.Senior police officer, Bashir Brohi, told that the victims were laborers from eastern Punjab province who were abducted and shot

DHAKA: The US and four European allies - Britain, France, Germany and Italy - have called for an immediate end to the fighting in Libya, BBC reports. In a statement, they said there was "no military solution" to the crisis. Dozens of people have recently been killed in the eastern city