DHAKA: At least 21 people were killed and around 100 wounded when Syrian army planes bombed a town in northern Syria that is controlled by Islamic State (IS) militants.A group monitoring the war said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.Syrian military helicopters dropped barrel bombs

DHAKA: High-level talks are due to take place in Oman ahead of the 24 November deadline for a comprehensive deal on Iran’s nuclear programme. US Secretary of State John Kerry is to meet his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU negotiator Catherine Ashton. They will be

DHAKA: The only son of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's assassinated former prime minister, has told tens of thousands of supporters that he would fight for his party's revival in an appearance intended to mark the official launch of his political career. "The fountainhead of our power is the

DHAKA: Hong Kong police have clashed with protesters again, with the government saying 20 people were injured in a fourth night of violence after nearly three weeks of pro-democracy rallies. Dozens of police with shields and helmets pushed into a crowd of protesters gathered at

DHAKA: US-led forces which are bombing Islamic State militants in Syria killed ten civilians in two recent air strikes.A group monitoring the violence said on Saturday, reports The Jerusalem Post.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said seven civilians were killed when an air strike

DHAKA: A youth delegation from Bangladesh called on the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Saturday (October 18), said a press release from Indian High Commission to Dhaka.The news release added, welcoming the delegation, the President said this is the

DHAKA: At least 39 climbers died on a key Nepali hiking route after it was hit by major snowstorms and avalanches earlier this week.Officials say, reports the BBC.Helicopters are helping rescuers high in the Himalayas as they search on for missing trekkers, with fears that more bodies

DHAKA: Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa is likely to walk out of the Bangalore central jail Saturday, a day after she was granted bail by the Supreme Court on medical grounds.Jayalalithaa, 66, followed the Supreme Court’s directive and issued a statement on Friday

DHAKA: Pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong clashed violently with police on Saturday as they reoccupied a protest camp mostly cleared the previous day, leading to multiple arrests and jeopardizing government talks aimed at ending a political stalemate. The police charged protesters

DHAKA: Russia president Vladimir Putin accused his US counterpart Barack Obama of a hostile approach towards Russia, warning in a Cold War-style tirade that Moscow would not be blackmailed by the West over Ukraine.Putin fired off his combative comments in a interview with a Serbian

DHAKA: One air traveller in the United States is not taking any chances amid heightened concerns that the deadly Ebola outbreak could spread in the country. The woman at Dulles International Airport outside Washington DC was dressed in a hazmat suit, complete with a full body gown, mask

Hong Kong’s government said it hoped to reopen talks with student protest leaders next week, but repeated the condition that negotiations must be held within the city’s constitutional framework.The condition, which has been the government’s position since the Occupy Central

DHAKA: The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday ratified a landmark EU pact that decisively steers the former Soviet state towards the West and away from Russian influence. President Petro Poroshenko told lawmakers the ratification of the association agreement, in a simultaneous vote with the

DHAKA: A Saudi man has asked a man who proposed to his sister to offer her an iPhone 6 as dowry. The prospective groom should present the latest smartphone sensation as soon as it is available on the Saudi market in order for the marriage to go ahead, said the brother, reports

DHAKA: The pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 committed suicide after switching off the oxygen supply of the other passengers. An aviation expert has claimed, reports The Straits Times. In the latest theory to have emerged on what happened to the ill-fated jetliner,

DHAKA: About 120 million girls around the world - slightly more than one in 10 - have been raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 20, a UN report says.The children's agency Unicef also says 95,000 children and teenagers - most of them in Latin America and the Caribbean - were

DHAKA: He was a big boy. A very, very big boy.In fact, the Dreadnoughtus schrani dinosaur unveiled Thursday was one of the biggest -- if not THE biggest -- land animal ever to grace the Earth.Experts estimate that back in his day -- which was the Upper Cretaceous period, approximately

DHAKA: This is story of Kadhim, who escaped from death by fate from an ISIS massacre, published on The New York Times recently. Here we are publishing the story for banglanews24.com readers.Ali Hussein Kadhim, an Iraqi soldier and a Shiite, was captured with hundreds of other

DHAKA: Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has criticised the US for new sanctions, saying they are ‘not compatible’ with the spirit of current negotiations. Speaking on Iranian TV, he said Iran was still committed to continuing nuclear talks with the US and five other international

DHAKA: Several dozen Yazidi women kidnapped by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadists in Iraq have been taken to Syria, forced to convert and sold into marriage to militants. A monitoring group said Saturday, reports The Straits Times. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,