DHAKA: US president Barack Obama urged against ‘hysteria or fear’ Saturday in the face of a growing Ebola crisis, as the United Nations spoke of an "encouraging" response to its funding appeal.The worst-ever outbreak of the deadly virus has so far killed more than 4,500 people,

DHAKA: Twenty-two days after she was convicted in a disproportionate assets case and arrested, former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa returned home to Chennai Saturday evening.She was granted bail by the Supreme Court yesterday on medical grounds.When she reached her residence

DHAKA: Iraqi MPs have approved new defence and interior ministers, completing a unity government that is battling the spread of Islamic State militants.Mohammed Salem al-Ghabban, a Shia, was appointed interior minister, while Khaled al-Obeidi, a Sunni, was confirmed as defence

DHAKA: Millions of passengers were left stranded across Germany on Saturday after train drivers began a 50-hour strike that halted two thirds of long-distance trains in a dispute over pay and negotiation rights.The GDL drivers’ union started their action at 2:00am on Saturday

DHAKA: USA President Barak Obama's credit card was rejected last month at a restaurant in New York, reports Washington Post on Friday. "I went to a restaurant up in New York when I was -- during the U.N. General Assembly, and my credit card was rejected," Obama said Friday while signing

DHAKA: Hurricane Gonzalo has hit Bermuda with winds of about 185km/h (115mph), CNN reports.  The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) has warned of high winds and "life-threatening storm surge" the after the eye of the hurricane passed the British Atlantic territory. Eighty per cent of

DHAKA: A big crowd of gawkers has gathered around Yuvraj, a giant 1400kg Murrah bull that on Friday was crowned champion at Meerut's All India Cattle Show by a 10-member jury, startled as much by the animal's size as by his owner's refusal to sell it for a mind-boggling Rs 7 crore. As

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has introduced a series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according to a report from Human Rights Watch.independent.co.uk reports, in a string of royal decrees and an overarching new piece of legislation to deal with terrorism generally, the Saudi

DHAKA: Russian President Vladimir Putin is meeting his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko and key EU leaders in Milan to discuss the eastern Ukraine crisis. The leaders of the UK, Germany, France and Italy are expected to press Mr Putin to do more to end the fighting. They accuse

DHAKA: The World Health Organization is to "ramp up" efforts to prevent Ebola spreading beyond the three countries most affected by the deadly virus.Fifteen African countries are being prioritised, top WHO official Isabelle Nuttall told a Geneva news conference.They will receive more

DHAKA: The grim search for missing hikers and bodies buried under snow continued Thursday against the dramatic backdrop of Nepal's Himalayas, as officials confirmed that at least 27 people had died in an exceptionally heavy snowfall.Rescue crews combed the high altitude paths and

DHAKA:  At least 36 people have been killed in a series of car bomb and mortar attacks in Shia areas of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.A suicide car bomb hit an army checkpoint near a restaurant in the northern district of Talibiya on Thursday afternoon, killing nine people, officials

DHAKA: Police and protesters in Hong Kong have scuffled for a second night as a group of demonstrators tried to re-occupy a main road near government buildings. Police used pepper spray to try and clear the area and arrested two people they said were obstructing officers, reports the

DHAKA: US-led air strikes have killed several hundred Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters around the Syrian town of Kobane, the Pentagon said, but it cautioned that the town near Turkey's border could still fall to the Sunni rebel group.The US-led coalition launched

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has played down the chance of an Ebola outbreak in the US, saying the risk of Americans getting the virus was "extremely low".He was speaking after a second US nurse became infected after treating a Liberian who died a week ago in Dallas, reports

DHAKA: An Indian was among 21 trekkers killed while 85 others remained missing after being hit by one of the worst snow storms in western Nepal on Wednesday. Sixteen people – Nine Nepalese, three Polish, three Israelis and one Vietnamese – were killed and as many as 19 others were

DHAKA: Tobacco companies in India will have to stamp health warnings across 85 percent of the surface of cigarette packs and other products, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday, joining nations such as Thailand and Australia with stringent marketing rules.Up to 900,000 Indians die

DHAKA: Moscow has thrown down the gauntlet to Australian prime minister Tony Abbott after he threatened to ‘shirtfront’ Russian president Vladimir Putin at the Group of 20 summit next month over the loss of Australian lives in the MH17 plane crash.Abbott ramped up the rhetoric

DHAKA: Nine trekkers – eight foreigners and a local man – have been killed in a snowstorm and avalanche in Nepal’s Himalayas, officials said on Wednesday, updating the death toll from four.‘A chopper search has located the bodies of five people, including four Canadians and an

DHAKA: Police arrested 37 men and eight women for illegal assembly during a clear-out operation at Lung Wo Road in downtown Hong Kong early Wednesday morning. Despite witnesses saying some protesters were injured in the clashes, Senior Superintendent Tsui Wai Hung said that no protesters