DHAKA: A college provost says suspected Islamic militants gunned down students as they slept and killed as many as 50 in an early-morning attack in northeast Nigeria.Molima Idi Mato of the Yobe state College of Agriculture told media that the gunmen also torched classrooms in the attack

DHAKA: An air strike on a high school in a rebel-held city of northern Syria killed 12 people, most of them pupils, on Sunday, a monitoring group said.‘The Syrian air force bombed a technical high school in the city of Raqa, killing 12 people, most of them children under 18, and

DHAKA: The Iranian army unveiled its newest domestically manufactured unmanned aerial vehicle, named the Yasir, during a ceremony in Tehran on Saturday attended by Army Commander Ahmad Reza Pourdastan.The Yasir UAV, which has been designed and manufactured by competent Iranian experts,

DHAKA: More than 30 people were still missing two days after a boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia sank off the Indonesian coast, killing 22 people including seven children.Indonesian security officials said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.The latest disaster to strike refugees

DHAKA: The search for survivors at the site of a collapsed apartment building ended on Sunday in India’s financial capital of Mumbai with a final death toll of 60 people.An emergency response official said, reports The Straits Times.Rescuers managed to save 33 people from the

DHAKA: Indian PM Manmohan Singh has said Pakistan must stop being "the epicentre of terrorism", ahead of talks with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif.Mr Singh also stressed that he shared Mr Sharif`s hopes for better relations between the two Asian rivals.Ahead of their meeting in

DHAKA: An explosion has ripped through a market in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, leaving at least 31 dead and dozens wounded.Police said a bomb had exploded in the Kissa Khwani market, with shops and vehicles set alight, reports the BBC.The blast comes a week after a

DHAKA: The Maldivian opposition appealed to foreign holidaymakers on Saturday to boycott the upmarket tourist destination as authorities indefinitely postponed a presidential runoff amid mounting international concern.The runoff had been slated for Saturday between human rights activist

DHAKA: Kenya is ‘at war’ with Islamist militants who attacked a Nairobi shopping mall, the government said on Saturday as it faced questions about whether it had received advance intelligence warnings of the deadly strike.A week after the raid on the Westgate shopping centre that

DHAKA: Three people were killed in clashes in the Lebanese town of Baalbek on Saturday after gunmen opened fire on a checkpoint manned by militant group Hezbollah, security sources said.One Hezbollah member was killed and two others were wounded when gunmen opened fire from a car at the

DHAKA: A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit southwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 12 people in a region already devastated by a tremor which left more than 300 people dead this week.‘At least 12 people have died and seven were wounded,’ Mr Abdul Latif Kakar, head of the

DHAKA: Iranian cyber hackers were allegedly responsible for breaching an unclassified US Navy computer network as recently as early last week.The Washington Post cited unnamed US officials as saying, reports The Jerusalem Post.According to the report, the officials said the intruders were

DHAKA: Tunisia’s Islamist government has agreed to resign after negotiations that start next week with secular opponents to form a caretaker administration and prepare for elections.A senior ruling party official said on Saturday, reports The Jerusalem Post.The negotiations aim to end

DHAKA: The European Union hailed a UN resolution on the eradication of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal as ‘setting a standard’ for the global response to the threats of weapons of mass destruction.The UN Security Council on Friday night unanimously passed a draft resolution on

DHAKA: A French hostage kidnapped by Islamist militants in Nigeria has asked for French and Nigerian government help in securing his release in a video released by his captors, according to the SITE web monitoring service.If the video is confirmed as authentic it would be the first visual

DHAKA: The death toll from the collapse of a five-storey apartment block in Mumbai rose to 33 as rescuers frantically searched for around two dozen others trapped beneath the rubble.Officials said Saturday, reports The Striats Times.Rescue official Alok Avasthy of the National Disaster

DHAKA: Human Rights Watch on Saturday criticised a hard-won United Nations Security Council resolution ordering the destruction of Syria’s chemical arsenal for failing to deliver justice for the conflict’s victims.‘This resolution fails to ensure justice for the gassing of hundreds

DHAKA: A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit south-west Pakistan on Saturday in a region already devastated by a quake which left more than 500 dead just days ago.The new tremor struck 96 kilometres north-east of the district of Awaran at a depth of 14 km at 12.34pm (local time), according to

DHAKA: A shoe was thrown towards Iranian president Hassan Rohani’s car on Saturday as he arrived home to a mixed reception for his historic call with United States president Barack Obama.Some 60 hardline Islamists chanted ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’ as Rohani’s

DHAKA: A Pakistani girl who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban is being honoured as Harvard University’s humanitarian of the year.Malala Yousafzai is an outspoken proponent for girls’ education.She was at Harvard on Friday to accept the 2013 Peter J Gomes Humanitarian