DHAKA: A huge night fire sent slum dwellers running for their lives and destroyed more than a thousand homes in the Philippines` largest southern city.Philippine officials said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Davao city’s skyline lit up as firefighters battled for more than five

DHAKA: A Chinese ship searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean has picked up a pulse signal.Chinese media say, reports the BBC.They say the signal has a frequency of 37.5kHz per second, the same as those emitted by the flight recorders.However there

DHAKA: A US Navy ‘black box’ detector made its much-anticipated debut in the oceanic hunt for flight MH370 on Friday but Australia’s search chief warned it was crunch time with the box’s signal set to expire soon.The Australian naval vessel Ocean Shield arrived with a ‘towed

DHAKA: Four weeks to the day since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing, the trawling for clues goes on.The search for physical evidence continues Saturday -- both on the surface of the southern Indian Ocean and deep below it, reports the CNN.The search for digital clues on the hard

DHAKA: Millions of Afghans have started voting to choose a new leader in an election that could lead to the first democratic transfer of power in the nation`s 5,000 year history.After months of manoeuvring, jockeying, tribal meetings and campaigning, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, Abdullah

DHAKA: As Afghanistan goes to polls on Saturday, the exercise promises to be as much of a game-changer as the Indian elections. Whatever the outcome, the fact that it will also constitute the first peaceful transition from one government to another is an achievement in itself.Millions of

DHAKA: The US Treasury has granted plane manufacturer Boeing a licence to export certain spare commercial parts to Iran, a company spokesman says.Boeing has had no public dealings with Tehran since 1979.In a statement, the US company said the licence had been granted for the safety of

DHAKA: Two journalists working for the Associated Press news agency have been shot by a police officer in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.One of the women, Anja Niedringhaus, died in the attack. Her colleague, Kathy Gannon, is reported to be stable.The attack took place in the town of

DHAKA: Two foreign journalists have been shot by a man dressed as a policeman in eastern Afghanistan, reports say.One of the journalists has died, and the other has been critically wounded, Reuters reports quoting police sources.The incident reportedly took place in a small town on

DHAKA: Mozilla Chief Executive Brendan Eich has stepped down, the company said, after an online dating service urged a boycott of the company`s web browser because of a donation Eich made to opponents of gay marriage.The software company came under fire for appointing Eich as CEO last

DHAKA: Towed pinger locators will begin to search the southern Indian Ocean for signs of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Australian officials say.Two ships with pinger locator capabilities will search a 240km (150 mile) track under water, in the hopes of recovering the plane`s

DHAKA: The US Senate Intelligence Committee has voted to recommend declassification of part of its report into "brutal" interrogation methods used by the CIA when questioning terror suspects.But officials say it will be some time before the summary is made public.Leaked parts of the

DHAKA: Israel will not release the fourth batch of Palestinian prisoners because of renewed Palestinian efforts to join international organisations.A spokesman for Tzipi Livni, Israel`s justice minister and the government`s chief negotiator, said on Thursday that the Israeli government

DHAKA: A German skydiver who was participating in a 222-person jump in Arizona was killed Thursday when her main parachute malfunctioned, officials said.Police in Eloy said Diana Paris, 46, of Berlin, was killed Thursday morning, reports the CNN.Paris was taking part in a world-record

DHAKA: Nearly two dozen ships and aircraft are picking up the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in fair weather Friday, seeking a breakthrough in the seas far off Australia.The day`s search area has been refined to about 217,000 square kilometers (83,800 square miles) of a remote

DHAKA: The White House confirms a US government aid agency was behind a text-message service that was allegedly designed to foment unrest in Cuba.ZunZuneo, dubbed a "Cuban Twitter", had 40,000 subscribers at its height in a country with limited web access, reports the Associated Press.The

DHAKA: Germany’s ambassador to Russia has been summoned by the Russian foreign ministry over remarks by finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble likening Russian moves in Crimea to Nazi Germany.Russian ministry said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.‘We consider such pseudo-historical

DHAKA: Malaysia will not rest until it can give answers to the distraught families of those on board missing Flight MH370.Malaysia prime minister Najib Razak said on Thursday, admitting the search was a ‘gargantuan’ challenge, reports The Straits Times.International efforts to find

DHAKA: Former US ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter has dismissed rumours that Pakistan knew Osama Bin Laden was hiding within its borders and says there is no evidence to back the claims.Speaking at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Munter said, ‘It’s not

DHAKA: NASA has cut ties with Russia except for cooperation aboard the International Space Station due to the crisis in Ukraine.The US space agency said Wednesday, daily Hurriyet publishes this report on Thursday.‘Given Russia’s ongoing violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and