DHAKA: The UN Security Council has unanimously approved the creation of a UN peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic to try to stop violence between Christians and Muslims that has threatened to spiral into genocide.The force, authorised by the 15-member council on Thursday,

DHAKA: US health secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning following the problematic launch of president Barack Obama’s healthcare law.US media report, says the BBC.The law, regarded by the president’s supporters as one of his main domestic achievements, has been marked by early

DHAKA: Russia was suspended from the parliamentary assembly of European human rights watchdog the Council of Europe in protest at Moscow’s behaviour towards Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea.The 18 Russian parliamentarians who were suspended will not be able to vote in the 318-head

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin threatened to cut off Ukraine’s gas unless Europe drummed up the cash to cover its debts and ensure its own supplies in a flaring standoff over the splintered ex-Soviet state.The veteran strongman’s most direct warning about deliveries on which

DHAKA: A German furniture store chain has apologised for selling coffee mugs featuring faint portraits of Adolf Hitler it had mistakenly ordered from a Chinese supplier.A news report said on Thursday, The Straits Times publishes on Friday.The vintage-style ceramic cups feature a faint

DHAKA: At least eight pupils died and 32 were injured after a bus overturned in China`s southernmost province of Hainan Thursday, the authorities said.The accident happened at about 11 am in Chengmai County, where the Xincai School had organised an outing for the students, Xinhua

DHAKA: An attacker armed with two knives has gone on a rampage Teams are focusing on a narrowed search area in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, after more signals were heard earlier this week.Thursday`s search was set to involve up to 14 aircraft and 13 ships, the agency

DHAKA: Married at 17 to a bride about his age, BJP`s PM candidate Narendra Modi has admitted for the first time under oath that he has a wife.In his nomination form for the Vadodara Lok Sabha seat, which he filed amid much fanfare on Wednesday, he entered the name of Jashodaben as his

DHAKA: An attacker armed with two knives has gone on a rampage at a high school in the US state of Pennsylvania, stabbing 21 students and a security guard.A suspect, named as Alex Hribal, 16, was arrested at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville near Pittsburgh, police said.He was

DHAKA: Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo have renewed their commitment to give $100m in monthly aid to the government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.The ministers also urged Arab governments falling behind on payments to the Palestinians to swiftly come up with the money,

DHAKA: At least 30 people have been killed and another 10 wounded in fighting between rival sectarian militias in the Central African Republic (CAR), police say.Officials say most of those who died in the central town of Dekoa were civilians hit by stray bullets.The predominantly

DHAKA: Millions of Indians are voting Thrusday across 11 states and three Union Territories in one of the biggest phases of the national election to pick a new government at the Centre. Polling is taking place in 91 of the country`s 543 Lok Sabha constituencies.Among the constituencies

DHAKA: In one of the many frank exchanges US defence secretary Chuck Hagel had in China this week, General Fan Changlong told him how one of his uncles died as a slave in a Japanese mine during World War Two.General Fan, the deputy head of China’s powerful Central Military Commission,

DHAKA: Car bombs hit several mostly Shia neighborhoods of Baghdad and a town south of the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens, officials said, the latest bout of violence ahead of the country’s first parliament elections since the 2011 US troop

DHAKA: Kim Jong-Un was Wednesday ‘re-elected’ as North Korea’s leader, state media said, as parliament met in a session closely watched for power shifts in the secretive regime following the shock execution of his once-powerful uncle.The new parliament is expected to endorse

DHAKA: With over 50 percent of the votes counted, former president Megawati Sukarnoputri’s Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P) is pulling ahead of its rivals in Indonesia’s legislative elections on Wednesday.Pollsters say PDI-P, the main opposition party which has named

DHAKA: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told his ministers to stop high-level meetings with their Palestinian counterparts.The order follows ‘Palestinians’ violation of their commitments under peace talks’, officials said, reports the BBC.It comes after a request by the

DHAKA: Italy has rescued 4,000 migrants from boats trying to reach European shores in the past 48 hours in a deepening immigration crisis, the interior minister said on Wednesday.Better sea conditions and turmoil in Libya, grappling with chaos and rampant militias three years after the

DHAKA: Australia prime minister Tony Abbott has landed in China, on the third leg of his tour of North Asia.Abbott touched down on the resort island of Hainan, reports abc.net.au.He is hoping to secure a free trade agreement with the country, after successfully reaching agreements with

DHAKA: Teams searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane have reacquired signals that could be consistent with "black box" flight recorders.An Australian vessel heard the signals again on Tuesday afternoon and evening, the search chief said, reports the BBC.Signals heard earlier had