DHAKA: A bridge has collapsed in southern China, killing 11 people, state media and officials say. The stone arch bridge was being constructed illegally at a village in Gaozhou City, Guangdong province, the officials said, reports the BBC. It collapsed on Saturday, killing five people

DHAKA: Aid groups on Sunday rushed to reach survivors of a landslide in northern Afghanistan that entombed a village, killing hundreds of people and leaving 700 families homeless in the mountains. Much of Aab Bareek village in Badakhshan province was swallowed on Friday by a fast-moving

DHAKA: Ukraine vowed on Sunday to broaden its ‘anti-terrorist’ operation against pro-Russian rebels, as the crisis-hit country marked its second day of mourning after violence that left more than 50 dead. National Security and Defence Council chief Andriy Parubiy said the armed

DHAKA: Demanding that chief minister Tarun Gogoi visit their area, people of Salbari in Assam’s violence-hit Baksa district on Sunday refused to bury their kin killed in attacks by NDFB-S militants. Angry protesters in Nankekhadrabari area on Sunday said they will not perform the last

DHAKA: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi ruled out the possibility of his party supporting the Third Front to form the government. ‘We will not support any front,’ Gandhi, who was campaigning in his constituency, told reporters on Saturday, says NDTV. He was asked whether

DHAKA: Eight people were killed when four compartments of the Diva-Sawantwadi Passenger, along with the engine, were derailed between Nagothane and Roha stations in India’s Maharashtra state’s Raigad district on Sunday morning. Police said the incident occurred in a tunnel near Nidi

DHAKA: A day after BJP president Rajnath Singh held out the olive branch to her, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee ruled out any alliance with the right wing party. ‘Some parties want to incite riots in Bengal and divide people, based on religion and language. People of Uttar

DHAKA:The grim reality begun to set in for the relatives of those aboard the South Korean Sewol ferry, as officials confirmed yet more deaths.   The search-and-rescue operation has long since turned into a grueling recovery of corpses. No one has been found alive since the day the ship

DHAKA: East Ukraine is braced for more unrest, as troops from Kiev prepare to continue "anti-terror" operations and pro-Russian gunmen reinforce barricades. Ukrainian soldiers advanced on several cities on Saturday to regain control of buildings seized by the gunmen, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: East Ukraine is braced for more unrest, as troops from Kiev prepare to continue "anti-terror" operations and pro-Russian gunmen reinforce barricades. Ukrainian soldiers advanced on several cities on Saturday to regain control of buildings seized by the gunmen, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: At least 23 people were killed and injured 17 in a bus crash in southwest Haiti on Saturday, authorities said. The accident occurred near the coastal town of Roseau, east of Jeremie, according to media reports. Most of the dead were from the town of d'Anse d'Hainault on the far

DHAKA: Rescuers in Afghanistan have given up hope of finding any more survivors in a double landslide that is feared to have killed more than 2,500 people. They have stopped digging through the earth and mud that swamped a whole village in the remote north-east province of Badakhshan on

DHAKA: Saudi health authorities announced on Saturday two new deaths from the Mers coronavirus, raising to 111 the number of fatalities since the disease appeared in the kingdom in September 2012.   A 25-year-old man has died in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah and a woman of 69, who

DHAKA: At least six people including a senior city council official have been killed in a Mogadishu explosion reported to have been caused by a remote-controlled bomb planted by al-Shabab fighters. Police said on Saturday that the the bomb was hidden in a pile of rubbish placed alongside

DHAKA: Eight more bodies were recovered on Saturday from the ferry that sank off South Korea last month, reports said, amid concern that some of the missing may never be found. Seventeen days after the 6,825-tonne Sewol capsized and sank, 236 people have been confirmed dead with 66 still

DHAKA: An Egyptian court sentenced 102 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi to 10 years in prison on Saturday over protest violence.   Egypt state television reported, says The Straits Times.   The army-installed government has rounded up thousands of Mursi

DHAKA: At least three people have been killed in a large explosion, possibly a car bomb or roadside bomb, near the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu. Somali police said, reports Al Jazeera. ‘So far three people have died and 10 others were injured,’ Farah Nur, a police officer,

DHAKA: Afghan officials gave up hope on Saturday of finding any survivors from a landslide in the remote north-east, putting the death toll at more than 2,100, as the aid effort focused on the more than 4,000 people displaced. Officials expressed concern that the unstable hillside above

DHAKA: Seven international military observers taken captive in eastern Ukraine a week ago have been released. Five Ukrainian officers captured with the observers, who are linked to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, were also freed. Pro-Russian separatists in the

DHAKA: Nine more bodies were recovered from a village in Baksa district early Saturday, taking the toll to 32 in the violence unleashed by NDFB-Songbijit militants in Bodoland Territorial Administration Districts (BTADC) area in Assam. The bodies of the victims, including four children