DHAKA: Police shot dead a teenage boy on Saturday in restive Indian Kashmir during a protest against Israel's military offensive against Gaza. India officials said, reports The Straits Times. The youngster’s death marked the first fatality in a string of demonstrations across the

DHAKA: Malaysia on Saturday said vital evidence at the Ukrainian site where flight MH17 went down had been tampered with, calling it a ‘betrayal’ of the lives lost in the disaster. ‘The integrity of the site has been compromised, and there are indications that vital evidence has

DHAKA: Dutch police on Saturday sent teams to visit relatives of those killed in the Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine to collect DNA and other data to help identify the dead. ‘We sent out 80 investigators this morning, working in pairs, to visit 40 addresses,’ national police

DHAKA: Thousands of demonstrators marched Saturday to demand arrests in the case of a six-year-old girl allegedly raped in a school in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. Two staff members at the private school are accused of the rape on July 2, the latest in a string of sexual

DHAKA: Islamist militants have killed 270 Syrian regime fighters, civilian security guards and employees since seizing a gas field in Homs province. A monitoring group said Saturday, reports gulfnews.com. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described Thursday’s takeover of the

DHAKA: No one does special effects quite like Mother Nature — and right now she is treating Britain to the daddy of all lightning storms. In one of the most breathtaking displays in living memory, the heavens are being torn open by dazzling bolts of lightning. Crazy patterns form in

DHAKA: Fresh Israeli air strikes killed 11 people in Gaza on Saturday, hiking the death toll above 300 as UN chief Ban Ki-moon headed to the region to bolster truce efforts. The new peace push came as Israel's campaign against the besieged Palestinian territory entered day 12 in the

DHAKA: Separatist leader Aleksander Borodai said on Saturday that the black boxes belonging to the downed Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine had not been found. ‘The black boxes have not been found and we are not touching the site,’ said Borodai, prime minister of the self-styled

DHAKA: Nine Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombing across the Gaza on Saturday afternoon, raising the toll in 12 days of violence to 333. Palestine medics said, reports The Straits Times. The new deaths included a fifth member of the Zuweidi family killed in northern Gaza’s Beit

DHAKA: A van carrying flammable liquid rammed into a bus in China early Saturday, sparking a fiery explosion that left 38 people dead, state media reported. Both drivers were among the fatalities in the accident in Hunan Province, according to Xinhua news agency. Five people were

DHAKA: Diplomats have agreed a four-month extension to the deadline for an agreement between Iran and world powers on Iran's nuclear programme. The US says it will unblock $2.8bn in frozen Iranian funds, in return for Iran continuing to convert its stocks of 20%-enriched uranium into

DHAKA: Israel has warned it could "significantly widen" a Gaza land offensive but was cautioned by its main ally, the United States, about the risks of further escalation as Palestinian civilian deaths mounted. Palestinian officials said 65 Palestinians, at least 15 of them under the age

DHAKA: At least 11 fighters have been killed in a US drone strike targeting a Pakistani Taliban compound in the country's restive northwestern tribal region near the border with Afghanistan, officials said. The attack came in North Waziristan, where for the past month the Pakistani

DHAKA: At least 80 of the victims on board the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 were children, Ukrainian Interior Minister told reporters at the crash scene.  A total of 298 people - 280 passengers, 15 crew members and three infants – were killed after the Boeing 777 was allegedly shot

DHAKA: Ukraine’s emergency services have found two black boxes at the crash site of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, the governor of eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region has been quoted as saying. “Two black boxes were found by our emergency services. I have no information on

DHAKA: At least 100 leading AIDS research experts were among those killed when a Malaysian passenger jet crashed in Ukraine after being allegedly shot down on Thursday. Among them was Joep Lange, who researched the condition for more than 30 years and was considered a giant in the field,

DHAKA: About 100 soldiers, guards and employees have been killed as jihadis seized a gas field in central Syria, activists say. Militants from the Islamic State group attacked army checkpoints and seized the Shaer gas field in the desert region of Palmyra, according to Beibares Tellawi,

DHAKA: Italian former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has won an appeal against his conviction for paying for sex with an underage prostitute. His seven-year prison sentence has now been thrown out by judges in Milan, in the so-called ‘Ruby’ case. Last year a court found that he

DHAKA: At least 264 people were killed in Gaza on the 11th day of an assault on Friday as Israel pressed a ground offensive aimed at stamping out cross-border rocket fire. The Palestinian medics said this which reports the Times of India.  An Israeli soldier was killed during the

DHAKA: Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine are to give international investigators access to the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines jet. The rebels vowed to secure the site and allow the recovery of bodies, the Organization for the Security and Co-operation in Europe said. The