DHAKA: More than 300 people on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship have become ill during a voyage, the Centers for Disease Control said on its website.According to the statement, 281 of the 3,050 passengers and 22 of 1,165 crew members of Explorer of the Seas reported vomiting and diarrhea,

DHAKA: Protesters in Thailand have surrounded polling stations, blocking early voting ahead of next week`s general election, officials say.Crowds of flag-waving demonstrators chained the doors of polling stations shut, despite promises by protest leaders not to obstruct the polls.Advance

DHAKA: A suicide bomber has blown himself up close to a bus carrying Afghan soldiers in the capital Kabul.The incident happened in the south-east of the city. A Kabul police chief says there are casualties, including civilians, reports BBC.The Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) news agency quotes

DHAKA: Police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo say they have detained 128 people during clashes that followed a demonstration against this year`s football World Cup.A car was set on fire. Shops, banks and a police vehicle were also damaged, reports BBC.The violence forced the

DHAKA: At least 29 people were killed in violence marking the third anniversary of the January 25 revolution that brought down longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian state media said.Dozens more people were wounded in clashes throughout the country between anti-government protesters

DHAKA: Ukrainian opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk says protests will continue despite President Viktor Yanukovych`s offer to appoint him as prime minister.Yatsenyuk said the opposition was generally ready to accept leadership, but several key demands must be met, including new

DHAKA: China’s Jade Rabbit moon rover has experienced a ‘mechanical control abnormality’, state media said on Saturday, in what appears to be a setback for a landmark mission in the country’s ambitious space programme.The abnormality occurred due to ‘the complicated lunar

DHAKA: At least six people were killed on Saturday when three mortar bombs hit a Shia Muslim village near the Iraqi city of Baquba, 65 km northeast of Baghdad.Iraqi police said, reports The Jerusalem Post.A woman and a child were among the victims, five of whom belonged to the same

DHAKA: Syria’s opposition and government have met briefly face to face as part of a talks process aimed at ‘saving Syria’, but did not speak directly.The initial gathering lasted half an hour, but is hailed a significant step.Earlier, the government team told the BBC ‘ending

DHAKA: French president Francois Hollande is expected to announce his separation from partner Valerie Trierweiler on Saturday following a media storm over allegations he is having an affair with an actress, according to the Journal du Dimanche. First lady Trierweiler, 48, Hollande’s

DHAKA: Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych has fired Oleksandr Popov as head of the Kiev City Administration and appointed parliamentarian Volodymyr Makeyenko of the Party of Regions in his stead, in line with decrees published on the presidential website on Saturday.Before the

DHAKA: Six people died in explosions and another six were shot dead by police in China’s Xinjiang, in the latest wave of violence to hit the restive region.The violence in Xinhe in Aksu prefecture in China’s far west appears to be linked to triple explosions that rocked the same area

DHAKA: At least four Egyptian embassy personnel have been kidnapped in the Libyan capital Tripoli.The Libyan foreign ministry says, reports the BBC.A spokesman said a cultural attache was among those seized by unknown gunmen.Another embassy official was seized in the Libyan capital on

DHAKA: The Syrian government reiterated its rejection on Saturday of a proposal to form a transitional ruling body as part of a political solution to the country’s nearly three-year conflict.‘We have complete reservations regarding it,’ Syria information minister Omran Zoabi told

DHAKA: India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looks set to form the next government in looming elections, while the ruling Congress is headed for its worst-ever defeat.Polls published on Saturday suggested, reports The Straits Times.The BJP-led National Democratic

DHAKA: A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia`s main island of Java on Saturday, the US Geological Survey reported, sending panicked residents running from their homes.People in the town of Adipala near the epicentre said they felt the ground shaking hard for up to 20 seconds, as

DHAKA: Popular Gmail service went offline just after 2 p.m. ET on Friday. Eighteen minutes later, some functionality appeared to be restored though the service was still having trouble sending messages.Google Inc suffered a service outage on Friday that briefly took down Gmail, the email

DHAKA: A Texas judge ordered a Fort Worth hospital to remove a pregnant and brain-dead woman from respirators and ventilators on Friday, perhaps ending a wrenching legal debate about who is alive, who is dead and how the presence of a fetus changes the equation. Erick Munoz, husband of

DHAKA: Search teams combed ice-covered debris for dozens of elderly people reported missing in the aftermath of a fire at a senior retirement complex in a small town in Canada`s Quebec province, a police official said Friday.At least eight people died in the fire that swept through the

DHAKA: Syria`s opposition and government will meet "in the same room" in Geneva on Saturday after the first day of a peace conference ended with no direct talks.UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who held talks with both sides on Friday, said they all understood that the conference was trying to