DHAKA: Israel has pummelled Gaza for a 14th day, raising the Palestinian death toll to more than 570, as ceasefire efforts continue in Doha and Cairo. Washington urged Israel to take ‘greater steps’ to prevent innocent casualties, and UN chief Ban Ki-moon appealed for the violence to

DHAKA: Rebels in eastern Ukraine have handed over two flight-data recorders from the downed MH17 plane to Malaysian experts. A senior rebel leader signed them over to the Malaysian officials at a meeting in the city of Donetsk. The handover came hours after the UN Security Council voted

DHAKA: Indonesia is to name its new president, following a hotly-contested election that saw both candidates claim victory. Most “quick counts” after the 9 July election placed Joko Widodo, the popular Jakarta governor, in the lead. But his rival Prabowo Subianto, a former military

DHAKA: At least five people have been killed and 70 injured by an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza. Palestinians say, reports the BBC. Doctors say several Israeli tank shells hit the hospital’s reception, intensive care unit and operating theatres. Overnight, more than 30 members

DHAKA: The death toll from the crash of a coach carrying Polish holidaymakers outside the German city of Dresden climbed to 11 on Monday after another victim succumbed to his injuries. German police said, reports The Straits Times. The crash occurred in the early hours of Saturday

DHAKA: Pro-Russian rebels have allowed Dutch investigators to examine bodies from the crashed Malaysia Airlines plane at a railway station in eastern Ukraine. The three Dutch experts said the train might leave the town of Torez later. All 298 people on board flight MH17 died when it

DHAKA: A British parliamentary committee on Monday ruled out the possibility of ‘any kind’ of currency union between an independent Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom.The Committee for Scottish Affairs concluded in a report that Scotland would no longer be able to use the

DHAKA: Police in eastern China clashed in the middle of the night with Christian protesters massed around their church on Monday, but failed to carry out a government order to remove a cross from the building, according to witnesses and online accounts.Several people were injured in

DHAKA: Britain will push for EU sanctions targeting whole sectors of the Russian economy in the wake of the Ukraine plane disaster even if it means taking a short-term ‘hit’ to the economy, its ministers said on Monday. British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said ‘the time has

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to criticize Israel in candid remarks caught on an open microphone between television interviews Sunday. Kerry was heard talking about Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza to a State Department official identified as Jonathan Finer just before

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Monday the downing of a Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine must not be used for political ends and urged separatists to allow international experts access to the crash site. ‘Everything must be done to guarantee the security

DHAKA: Dutch PM Mark Rutte says experts have arrived in Torez in Ukraine, where the remains of victims of the Malaysia Airlines plane crash are being stored. The three Dutch forensic scientists are aiming to start work on identifying the 196 bodies stored there on trains. Pressure is

DHAKA: Iran has turned all of its enriched uranium closest to the level needed to make nuclear arms into more harmless forms. The UN nuclear agency says, reports the BBC. The conversion of its stock of 20%-enriched uranium was part of a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear programme. The US

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