DHAKA: The first bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines plane which crashed in Ukraine last week are to be flown to the Netherlands for identification. A day of mourning is being held to mark the occasion, more than five days after the aircraft was downed in a rebel-held area in

DHAKA: After weeks of rising tensions following the killing of three Israeli teenagers and the apparent revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager, Israel began a major offensive against Hamas in Gaza on July 8. After 15 days of fighting, at least 620 Palestinians and 29 Israelis have

DHAKA: Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo has been declared the winner of Indonesia’s hotly contested presidential election. The election commission said Widodo, widely known as Jokowi, won 53.15% of the vote with his rival, ex-general Prabowo Subianto, on 46.85%. Earlier, Subianto alleged

DHAKA: At least six people including five children have been killed in a minibus crash near the French city of Troyes, south-east of Paris. Officials say, reports the BBC. The minibus in which the children were travelling collided with a lorry on a minor road. Several other people were

DHAKA: Black boxes from the Malaysian jetliner downed over eastern Ukraine will be sent to a lab in the United Kingdom. Malaysia’s deputy transport minister on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times. ‘The procedure is to have the black boxes sent to the nearest lab that is authorized by

DHAKA: Chinese president Xi Jinping visited Cuba on Tuesday to expand investment in the fellow communist nation, his last stop on a four-country Latin American charm offensive. Cuba, the only one-party communist state in the Americas, began opening up its economy in 2008, but has not

DHAKA: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged Israel and the Palestinians to ‘stop fighting’ and ‘start talking’ to end the conflict in Gaza. He was speaking in Israel as diplomatic efforts intensified. More than 600 Palestinians and 29 Israelis have been killed

DHAKA: As Western leaders increasingly pointed the finger of blame at pro-Russian separatists, and Moscow itself, over the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines plane in eastern Ukraine, the government in Kuala Lumpur said little. The reasons for that reticence, which had drawn criticism

DHAKA: Myanmar’s main opposition party says it has collected about five million signatures seeking reduced powers for unelected military members of parliament as the country, which emerged from dictatorship in 2011, moves towards an election next year. The National League for Democracy

DHAKA: Malaysia has sent a three-man expert team to investigate the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site after getting assurances about their safety there. Malaysia transport minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the government received assurances from the Organisation for Security and

DHAKA: The toll of the two-week fighting between Israel and the Islamist Hamas group in Gaza topped 500 on Monday. The UN Security Council has deplored the mounting violence and appealed for an immediate ceasefire. Here are five things about the Israel-Gaza conflict. 1. History of the

DHAKA: At last, bowing to international pressure, pro-Moscow separatists handed over on Tuesday the black boxes from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane, four days after it plunged into rebel-held eastern Ukraine though it is yet to know what happened to the earlier MH370 for the failure

DHAKA: Parents will face prosecution if they fail to stop their daughters undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) under new measures being announced. UK prime minister David Cameron is unveiling a £1.4m prevention programme aimed at ending the practice at a global summit in London.

DHAKA: An Israeli soldier is missing in the Gaza Strip and is presumed dead, local media quote the military as saying. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said efforts were under way to identify one of seven Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza on Sunday. Nearly 600 Palestinians and 29 Israelis

DHAKA: South Korean police said Tuesday they had found the body of fugitive business tycoon Yoo Byung-Eun, the target of a months-long manhunt connected to April’s Sewol ferry disaster that claimed around 300 lives.   The heavily decomposed corpse of the 73-year-old Yoo was discovered

DHAKA: The call for an immediate ceasefire has started coming from the West. But not before few casualties on the Israeli side. This call did not come when over four hundred Palestinians including unarmed women and children were massacred.  The West was calling for a ‘responsible

DHAKA: Three people were killed in Taliban suicide bomb attack outside Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Police said the deceased are two foreign advisers and an Afghan interpreter. The identities of the foreign advisers were not clear immediately, reports the

DHAKA: At least eleven people were killed and 14 others are still missing after mudslides swept through two villages in southwest China on Monday following days of heavy rain. Rescuers are working to retrieve people still buried after mudslides struck the villages in Yunnan province,

DHAKA: At least 16 people, including soldiers, were killed and 81 injured in clashes between the Libyan army and Islamist fighters in the eastern city of Benghazi. “Most of the dead and injured are soldiers. Three civilians, including an Egyptian, were killed when a rocket hit their

DHAKA: At least 60 people have died due to encephalitis in the seven districts of north Bengal, India’s Health Services Director Biswaranjan Satpathy said. The region has been affected badly by the disease and the situation is 'alarming'. The 60 people have died during the period