DHAKA: Pro-Russian separatists ignored an ultimatum to leave occupied government buildings in eastern Ukraine and instead seized more buildings as Kiev failed to follow through on a threatened military crackdown.The armed separatists on Tuesday remained in control of government offices in

DHAKA: A senior Afghan government official was kidnapped along with his driver on his way to work in Kabul on Tuesday.An interior ministry official said, reports The Straits Times.Ahmad Shah Waheed, deputy minister for public works, was taken by gunmen at around 7:00am (0230 GMT) from the

DHAKA: The EU and the US say they will impose ‘further costs’ on Russia over its actions in Ukraine, as unrest continues in the east of the country.EU foreign ministers said on Monday they would expand a list of names targeted by EU sanctions.Tension has been rising in Ukraine, with

DHAKA: A leading UK site for parents and the Canadian tax authority have both announced they have had data stolen by hackers exploiting the Heartbleed bug.Mumsnet, which says it has 1.5 million registered members, said that it believed that the cyber thieves may have obtained passwords

DHAKA: Syrian soldiers backed by Hizbollah fighters recaptured the town of Maaloula, north of Damascus, on Monday, military sources and state television said, further squeezing rebels’ supply routes through the Qalamoun mountains into Lebanon.Islamist fighters, some from the

DHAKA: The Guardian and Washington Post have shared the Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for a series of stories on US electronic spying.Their reporting was based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.Among other winners of the top

DHAKA: A Utah woman has been accused of killing six of her own babies after their bodies were discovered in cardboard boxes at her former house.Megan Huntsman, 39, gave birth to the babies between 1996 and 2006.Seven bodies were found by police at the house in Pleasant Grove; it is

DHAKA: UK drug company GlaxoSmithKline is facing a criminal investigation in Poland for allegedly bribing doctors, BBC Panorama has discovered.Eleven doctors and a GSK regional manager have been charged over alleged corruption between 2010 and 2012.A former sales representative said

DHAKA: More than 70 people have been killed in two blasts that rocked a crowded bus station on the outskirts of Nigeria`s capital, Abuja.The blast happened as commuters were about to board buses and taxis to go to work in central Abuja, reported the BBC.Eyewitnesses said there were dead

DHAKA: Teams searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane are to deploy a robotic submarine for the first time.Search chief Angus Houston said the Bluefin-21 drone would be sent down as soon as possible to search for wreckage on the sea floor.Teams have been using a towed pinger

DHAKA: A least 36 people were killed when a bus slammed into a broken-down truck and burst into flames on Sunday in southern Veracruz state of Mexico, reports BBC.Four people survived after the bus burst into flames.A statement from the state civil defence agency said the victims were

DHAKA: Three people, including a man and his grandson, were shot dead at a Jewish community site and a retirement home in Kansas City in the US Midwest on Sunday, reports CNN.The shootings took place at the Jewish Community Campus at Overland Park and a nearby assisted living centre,

DHAKA: Libya’s interim prime minister Abdullah al-Thani stepped down on Sunday, saying that he and his family had been the victims of an armed attack the previous day.A statement said, reports The Straits Times.Thani quit less than a week after Parliament tasked him on Tuesday with

DHAKA: Voter support for Britain’s anti-European Union United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) is at a record high according to one opinion poll on Sunday, reflecting a wider pattern of growing support for the party ahead of European elections next month.The rising popularity of UKIP,

DHAKA: A car bomb went off in a commercial area of a restive northern Iraqi city, killing at least 10 people, while a separate bombing in the north killed six people.Iraq officials said, reports Al Jazeera.The explosives-laden parked car targeted a joint Iraqi army and police patrol while

DHAKA: A Ukrainian officer has been killed in a gun battle with pro-Russian armed men in the eastern city of Sloviansk.Ukraine interior minister says, reports the BBC.Both sides suffered a number of casualties, Arsen Avakov said.Pro-Russian forces took over Sloviansk on Saturday and have

DHAKA: Russia`s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says any armed action by Ukrainian authorities in the east of Ukraine could undermine forthcoming talks.He made the comments after pro-Russian militants stormed a police headquarters in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on Sunday.The

DHAKA: A tsunami warning was canceled following a 7.6-magnitude earthquake that struck Sunday morning near the Solomon Islands, officials said.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center based in Hawaii had issued a warning for the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu in the South

DHAKA: A UN report on climate change is expected to call for a trebling of the planet`s use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power.The report is also expected to argue that the trend of increased carbon emissions can only be reversed if a "massive shift" in energy use is

DHAKA: A group of pro-Russian men armed with automatic weapons have taken control of the police headquarters in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, 150 km from the Russian border, local officials and witnesses said.An organised military unit of over 20 men wearing matching military fatigues