DHAKA: The UN Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza after holding an emergency closed-door meeting on the crisis. The talks came after the UN chief described Israel’s shelling of a Gaza City suburb as ‘an atrocious action’. A total of 501 people have now

DHAKA: Israel says that 13 of its soldiers died since Saturday night, the biggest one-day loss for its army in years, BBC At least 87 Gazans were reported killed on Sunday - 60 of them in the district of Shejaiya alone. The total death toll in Gaza now stands at more than 425. Hamas

DHAKA: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the killing of dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by Israeli shelling as an "atrocious action" and called for an immediate end to almost two weeks of fighting. Ban's comments on Sunday came before a UN Security Council emergency

DHAKA: Gunmen on a motorcycle have killed at least four people and injured several others in the Kenyan city of Mombasa. Police were quoted by local media as saying that the gunmen had fired indiscriminately at passers-by. The port city has seen a wave of violence in recent months, with

DHAKA: Rescue workers have recovered flight recorders from the crash site of the Malaysian airliner shot down in eastern Ukraine but pro-Russian separatists are keeping hold of them. On Sunday afternoon, a video, reportedly recorded on Friday, was released by Ukraine's security services,

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry alleged there is overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine, BBC news.         Kerry called on Russia to take responsibility for the actions of the rebels, saying their handling of the

DHAKA: Britain’s Prince George celebrates his first birthday on Tuesday, capping a year in which the globetrotting infant became the trend-setting face of the modern royal family. The young prince will mark the occasion with a low-key party at the family home at Kensington Palace, in

DHAKA: Pro-Russian separatists say they have loaded a train with 196 bodies recovered from the crash site of the Malaysian airliner shot down in eastern Ukraine. International news agencies said on Sunday no bodies remained at the crash site, a day after media reported rebels putting

DHAKA: Amid uncertainty over government formation in the city, Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay on Sunday said his party is ‘fully ready’ to face fresh elections though many party MLAs are reluctant to go to polls again. At the same time, he said the party will explore taking a

DHAKA: People flee their homes by foot after heavy overnight bombardment killed dozens of Palestinians. Thousands of people fled Gaza's eastern district of Shujayea as heavy bombardment from the Israeli army continued into the morning, with the Palestinian death toll over the last 13

DHAKA: Malaysia Airlines have decided to retire the flight number MH17 as a mark of respect to its 298 passengers and crew who died in the deadly missile attack over Ukraine. The new designation for the route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur is to be known as MH19, a Malaysian Airlines

DHAKA: The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a wave of car bombs in mostly Shia areas of Baghdad which killed at least 27 people on Saturday. The hardline Sunni Islamist organisation which has led an offensive across northern and western Iraq said two of the explosions

DHAKA: Emergency workers in Ukraine say they have now found 196 bodies at the crash site of Malaysia airliner MH17. A total of 298 people were on board the plane, when it was reportedly hit by a missile over a rebel-held area in Donetsk region on Thursday. Western countries have

DHAKA: Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko urged the United Nations to label rebels fighting Ukrainian forces in the eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk as belonging to ‘terrorist organisations’. During a telephone conversation with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,

DHAKA: Turkey’s prime minister has accused Israel of ‘barbarism that surpasses Hitler’ during its ground invasion of Gaza. Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the comment during a campaign speech in the Black Sea port city of Ordu, reports independent.co.uk. He is running for the presidency

DHAKA: Islamist militia launched their heaviest assault so far on Libya’s main airport on Sunday, two days after a truce with the rival ex-rebels that control it collapsed. A security official said, reports The Straits Times. ‘The airport was attacked this morning with mortar

DHAKA: Excerpt of latest media statement from Malaysia Airlines on downing of MH17: The latest number of passengers and their nationalities of those onboard MH17, as of July, 19 2014: Netherlands: 192 (including one dual Netherlands/US citizen) Malaysia: 44 (including 15 crew members

DHAKA: The death toll from Typhoon Rammasun in the Philippines rose to 94, with six missing, as another storm brought rains to the ravaged areas.Philippines authorities said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.The reports of fatalities came in as repairmen struggled to restore

KUALA LUMPUR: Several hundreds of Bangladeshi students have been facing embarrassing situation being allured of ‘part time’ job facilities.Recently a number of Bangladeshi students have raised this allegation.A Bangladeshi student Saklain (not real name) of Kalayanpur, Dhaka has

DHAKA: At least 73 children killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip. The spiraling number of children killed in the latest conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza has raised international concern.On Saturday, a group of international and Palestinian rights