DHAKA: An investigation was under way on Sunday to find out why a British military helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing five troops. The Lynx helicopter crashed during a routine flight in Kandahar province on Saturday, causing the third biggest single loss of life for

DHAKA: The Afghan presidential election will go to a second round, after no candidate reached the 50% needed for an outright win, preliminary results show. Former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah won most votes with 44.9%. Former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani came second with

DHAKA: Pro-Russian Ukrainian rebels holding captive an international team of military observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Osce) said on Sunday they are ‘prisoners of war’ and brought them before the media in a news conference. The group of eight

DHAKA: A court in Egypt has sentenced 11 supporters of deposed president Mohammed Mursi to prison terms ranging from five to 88 years for rioting. The defendants were arrested during a wave of protests that followed the ousting of Mursi last year. In March more than 500 Mursi supporters

DHAKA: Syria still holds around eight per cent of its declared chemical weapons material, as the deadline for it to be handed over expired on Sunday, the task force overseeing the operation said. Sigrid Kaag, head of the joint Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-UN team

DHAKA: India’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) distributed ‘Rs Zero’ notes to voters in Kurnool of India on Sunday. To protest against the distribution of cash by other political parties in India, AAP did that, reports The Times of India. It said that AAP workers distributed zero rupee

DHAKA: Eight people have been killed after fire swept through a rehabilitation centre for drug addicts in Russia’s eastern Altai region. Russian officials say, reports the BBC. Six people were injured in the Chisty List centre near the Krasilovo lake. The officials say the blaze

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama warned on Sunday that ethnic and religious conflicts could move Myanmar in a ‘very bad direction’. Obama praised the ‘courageous process’ of political reform taking place in a country formerly led by a military junta, but warned that

DHAKA: India successfully test-fired an anti-ballistic missile on Sunday capable of intercepting targets outside the earth’s atmosphere, a major step in development of a missile defence system that is available to only a handful of nations. Sharing borders with nuclear armed China and

DHAKA: Someone thinks that ‘Emoticons’ are wonder-invent of new era’s kids, but these are being used for 366 years. Recently researchers found poem, written that time consisting Emoticons, reports the Huffington Post on Sunday. They said, “Emoticons might not be an invention of

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has said the US and Malaysia are at the start of a "new era of partnership", on the second day of his official visit. Obama was speaking at a state banquet with Malaysian King Abdul Halim Mu`adzam Shah. He is due to meet Prime Minister Najib Razak

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Russia to do all it can to help release European military observers abducted in eastern Ukraine.In a phone call with his Russian counterpart, Kerry also expressed concern about "provocative Russian troop movements" near Ukraine`s

DHAKA: South Korea’s Prime Minister Chung Hong-Won tendered his resignation Sunday over the sinking of a passenger ferry that left more than 300 people dead or missing."I offer my apology for having been unable to prevent this accident from happening and unable to properly respond to it

DHAKA: The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas welcomed a Saturday speech by president Mahmud Abbas to the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), with which it signed a reconciliation deal this week.‘The speech had mostly positive points, and we cannot but support it on topics such as

DHAKA: The United States and other nations in the Group of Seven say they could move as early as Monday to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia in response to its actions in Ukraine.The announcement followed president Barack Obama’s telephone conversations with French

DHAKA: The death toll from flash floods in northern Afghanistan rose to more than 100 on Saturday with many others still missing, officials said, as helicopters carried trapped villagers to safety.The national disaster management authority told media that 58 people were killed in Jowzjan

DHAKA: India’s ruling Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday termed the Gujarat model of governance as destructive, divisive in nature and prayed to God to save the country from this model.‘Hey Bhagwan desh ko is model se bachao (God save the country from this model),’ Sonia

DHAKA: Palestinians will never recognize Israel as the ‘Jewish state’, president Mahmud Abbas said on Saturday, as his leadership convened to chart a course of action after Israel halted peace talks.‘In 1993 we recognized Israel,’ Abbas told members of the Palestine Liberation

DHAKA: Pope Francis told Ukraine prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Saturday that he will ‘do everything possible’ for peace in the country, amid fears that Russia could be about to invade.The Ukrainian premier is cutting short his trip to Rome and will miss the canonisation of John

DHAKA: Five Nato troops were killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, the Nato-led security mission Isaf said.Isaf gave no further details, saying in a statement that it was still reviewing the circumstances of the crash.Such crashes are relatively frequent in Afghanistan,