DHAKA: Kenya’s investigation into a bloody siege by Islamist militants in Nairobi has been joined by experts from the US, UK, Germany, Canada and Interpol.Forensic experts are combing the Westgate shopping complex for DNA and ballistic clues, Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said.He

DHAKA: Iranian newspapers on Wednesday welcomed a speech by US president Barack Obama for recognising Washington’s ‘past mistakes’, saying a new international mood that favours Tehran has begun.In remarks before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Obama pushed for a

DHAKA: Indian premier Manmohan Singh confirmed Wednesday he will meet Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif this weekend in a major step towards better relations following rising tensions.Singh said he will hold talks with Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the

DHAKA: Bomb disposal experts and investigators searched through the wreckage of a Kenyan shopping mall on Wednesday after a four-day attack by Islamist militants that killed at least 72 people.Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta declared three days of mourning after troops defeated the

DHAKA: Iranian president Hassan Rohani on Tuesday called the Holocaust a ‘reprehensible’ crime committed by the Nazis against the Jewish people but said it was up to historians to determine the scale of what happened.‘I am not a historian and when it comes to speaking of the

DHAKA: Rescuers in Pakistan are striving to reach victims of a massive earthquake that struck the country`s southwest, killing at least 327 people, wounding more than 500 and flattening thousands of mud-built homes.The 7.7 magnitude quake struck Balochistan’s Awaran district on Tuesday

DHAKA: Eleven Islamist rebel groups in Syria have announced they do not recognise the authority of the main opposition alliance, the National Coalition.A joint statement says, ‘All groups formed abroad without having returned to the country do not represent us’.They also call for the

DHAKA: Dutch police closed two department stores and a restaurant in the city of Haarlem on Wednesday after someone tweeted threats of a ‘bloodbath’.Armed police were deployed outside V&D shops and a restaurant in the city to the west of Amsterdam after ‘threatening tweets’ were

DHAKA: Rescuers in Pakistan are striving to reach victims of a massive earthquake that struck the country’s southwest, killing more than 270 people and flattening thousands of mud-built homes.The 7.7 magnitude quake struck Balochistan’s Awaran district on Tuesday at 4:29pm local time

DHAKA: A British national has been arrested in Nairobi following the mall siege that killed at least 67 people.Kenya the Foreign Office in London said on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.According to the Daily Mail newspaper, a 35-year-old Briton of Somali origin was arrested at

DHAKA: A small island created in the Arabian Sea by the huge earthquake that hit southwest Pakistan has fascinated locals but experts say it is unlikely to last long.The 7.7-magnitude quake struck on Tuesday in Baluchistan’s remote Awaran district, killing more than 200 people and

DHAKA: A robot that picks ripe strawberries as the farmer sleeps was unveiled in Japan on Wednesday, with its developer saying it could cut workloads by two-thirds.The device, which can gather a piece of fruit every eight seconds, uses three cameras to determine which strawberries are

DHAKA: A team of UN chemical weapons experts arrived in the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, an international media correspondent said, ahead of new investigations into the use of the banned arms.The team, led by chief expert Ake Sellstrom, flew into the Lebanese capital Beirut on

DHAKA: The United Nations voiced concern on Wednesday over the fate of more than 100,000 Filipinos displaced by two weeks of fighting between government troops and Muslim rebels, saying they were at risk of disease from crowded and unsanitary conditions in evacuation centres.The

DHAKA: India urged Sri Lanka on Wednesday to share political power with ethnic minority Tamils after their victory in local council elections, in a bid for ‘genuine reconciliation’ after a decades-long war.The opposition Tamil alliance swept to victory at the weekend in the first

DHAKA: One in three young Japanese women wants to get married and be a full-time housewife, a government survey has showed, despite growing calls for increased female participation in the workforce.The poll, which quizzed more than 3,000 people aged 15-39, found 34 percent of unmarried

DHAKA: Moderate Syrian rebels are engaged in their fiercest fighting to date with al-Qaida-affiliated fighters on Syria’s northern and eastern borders.A senior US State Department official said on Tuesday, The Jerusalem Post publishes this report on Wednesday.‘There is a real

DHAKA: Australian road safety researchers on Wednesday unveiled a pioneering ‘attention-powered car’ which uses a headset to monitor brain activity and slow acceleration during periods of distraction.The car, commissioned by the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) of Western Australia, is

DHAKA: Pakistan`s military on Wednesday rushed to reach the scene of a huge earthquake that killed more than 260 people and toppled thousands of mud-built homes when it hit the country`s southwest.The 7.8-magnitude quake struck Tuesday afternoon in Balochistan province`s Awaran district

DHAKA: More than a quarter of 18- to 24-year-olds in Britain do not trust Muslims, a BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat poll suggests.Of the 1,000 young people questioned, 28% said Britain would be better off with fewer Muslims, while 44% said Muslims did not share the same values as the rest of the