DHAKA: A worker who had recently tried to convert colleagues to Islam beheaded one of them in a knife rampage after being dismissed from his job in Oklahoma State, Aljazeera reports. The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Alton Nolen, attacked another colleague with the knife before

DHAKA: The coalition is growing -- not just in words, but in action.Just over two weeks after U.S. President Barack Obama vowed "America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat" posed by ISIS, more than 50 countries have signed up, so far, to support the fight,

DHAKA: The US armed forces chief says Islamic State (IS) militants are being damaged by air strikes in Syria but air power alone is not enough to defeat them.Gen Martin Dempsey said a political solution and a ground campaign would both be needed in Iraq and Syria.Gen Dempsey said that

DHAKA: The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has passed 3,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.The latest figures indicate that more than 6,500 people are believed to have been infected in the region.Liberia is the worst affected country, having recorded around

DHAKA: Iraq's prime minister said Thursday that captured Islamic State militants have told Iraqi intelligence agents of an alleged plot to attack subways in the United States and Paris, but French and American officials said they had no such information. A senior Obama administration

DHAKA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "clean India" dream has driven his ministers to the broom, NDTV reports.  On Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary October 2, PM Modi will pick up a broom to launch his "Swachh Bharat (clean India)" mission, for which he wants a mass movement. In a

DHAKA: Police in northern Greece say they are investigating reports that a woman woke up to find herself buried in a coffin, only to die before being rescued, BBC reports.  Several people visiting the cemetery, near Thessaloniki, told police they had heard banging and muffled shouting

DHAKA: The US-led coalition’s warplanes have bombed oil installations and other facilities in territory controlled by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in eastern Syria on Friday for a second consecutive day. The strikes reportedly hit two oil areas in Deir ez-Zour

DHAKA: Four primary schoolchildren were killed in a knife attack by a man in south China’s Guangxi region, the latest such incident in the country in recent years. The four children in Pingshan town of Lingshan county were attacked by the knife-wielding middle-aged man at about 6:20 am

DHAKA: At least 12 people were killed in five days as over 100 of Taliban fighters have stormed a district of Afghan province near the capital. The officials on Friday said there were fears that the area will fall to the insurgents, reports the NDTV. Provincial deputy governor

FROM CHERUS, KUALALUMPUR: Bangladeshi students are trapped in the attractive advertisements which say that part time job side by side with studying.  Being victims of fraud agents, few hundreds of Bangladeshi students are facing an embarrassing situation after coming over here. 

DHAKA: A US court has ordered Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to respond to allegations that he failed to stop the 2002 riots in Gujarat, the state he ruled for 14 years till he came to power at the Centre in May.Modi, who begins a five-day visit to the US today, has 21 days to

DHAKA: Fifty people died in violence on Sunday in Xinjiang, Chinese state media said, in what police called a "serious terrorist attack".Earlier this week state media reported the incident in Luntai county but gave the death toll as two.On Thursday a state news portal said 40 "rioters",

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has said the global community has not done enough to respond to the crisis posed by the Ebola outbreak that is currently spiralling out of control in West Africa."There is still a significant gap between where we are and where we need to be," Obama

DHAKA: Eric Holder said he would step down as US attorney general, setting up a potentially bruising Senate fight to confirm a successor who can tackle a long list of pending challenges at the Justice Department.Holder, an unapologetic liberal voice and one of president Barack

DHAKA: British prime minister David Cameron is expected to win approval from parliament to join US-led air strikes on Islamic State militants in Iraq at a specially convened session on Friday.A coalition including the United States and Middle Eastern allies such as Saudi Arabia and

DHAKA: About 1,000 volunteers from the Asia-Pacific region have sought to join the Islamic State (IS) group.A senior military officer said on Thursday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Friday.Admiral Samuel Locklear, who oversees American forces across Asia as head of Pacific

DHAKA: A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Alaska on Thursday and was felt in the state capital Anchorage.The US Geological Survey (USGS) and social media reported, The Straits Times publishes this report on Friday.No tsunami alert was issued by the Pacific Tsunami Alert Warning Centre

DHAKA: India prime minister Narendra Modi left for New York on Thursday on a six-day visit focused on boosting trade and resetting ties with the USA, the world’s largest economy.In a statement ahead of his departure, Modi said he was ‘confident that the visit will mark the start

DHAKA: Iranian president Hassan Rohani told the United Nations on Thursday that the West had made ‘strategic blunders’ in the Middle East and that moderates in the region should take a central role in countering extremism.Just days after the United States extended air strikes