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,

DHAKA: India’s new prime minister Narendra Modi flew into Japan Saturday on a five-day official visit as their governments seek to boost security ties and counter a increasingly assertive China. Modi arrived at Kansai International Airport near Osaka, western Japan, by special plane

DHAKA: A California gay man who is alleged to be HIV positive is accused of intentionally infecting at least two dozen men in and around the San Diego area on Saturday. Two men say 29-year-old Thomas Guerra infected them with the HIV virus, and one man who spoke to KFMB-TV says he’s

DHAKA: Lesotho prime minister Tom Thabane confirmed Saturday that the military had seized power in a coup in the tiny kingdom and that he had fled to neighbouring South Africa in fear of his life. ‘I have been removed from control not by the people but by the armed forces, and that is

DHAKA: An armed group detained 43 UN peacekeepers during fighting in Syria early Thursday and another 81 peacekeepers are trapped, the United Nations said. The United Nations confirmed that an armed group captured 43 UN peacekeepers on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Thursday,

DHAKA: The jihadist Islamic State group has posted video of the execution of a captured Kurdish fighter, in a warning to Iraqi Kurdish leaders to end military cooperation with Washington, a monitoring group said on Friday. The United States has carried out a wave of air strikes against

DHAKA: Malaysia Airlines is to cut 6,000 staff as part of recovery plan after being hit by two disasters this year.The reduction in staff numbers represents around 30% of its workforce of 20,000.The airline will become completely state owned, and a new chief executive will be put in

DHAKA: Paintings by an Indian elephant have gone on sale at a gallery in the capital, Delhi, to help raise money to protect the endangered animals.Artist Alpana Ahuja said she had used bananas and other food to lure Phoolkali to create the artworks.The elephant, who was rescued from

DHAKA: After an earthquake swarm in the area, the Bardarbunga volcano erupted Friday in Iceland. However, a Code Red aviation travel warning with a no-fly zone was issued Friday by the Met Office there. Moreover, earlier another volcano also erupted on the day same in Papua New Guinea,