DHAKA: The gap in employment rates between America’s highest- and lowest-income families has stretched to its widest levels since officials began tracking the data a decade ago, according to an analysis of government data conducted for media.Rates of unemployment for the lowest-income

DHAKA: Testimony by North Koreans exiles, including former political prison camp inmates, points to patterns that may amount to widespread and systematic violations by the state.United Nations human rights investigators said in their first report on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.Camp

DHAKA: Syria’s decision to dismantle their chemical weapons arsenal, in agreement with the US-Russia brokered deal, in no way damages Syria’s ability to hurt its enemies.Syrian prime minister Wael al-Halki said, Israel Radio reported, according to The Jerusalem Post.According to the

DHAKA: Philippine forces freed scores of civilian hostages on Tuesday as fighting subsided in a port city where hundreds of rogue Muslim guerrillas have been battling for more than a week.The fighting, in which nearly 100 people have been killed, has highlighted lingering grievances in

DHAKA: French foreign minister Laurent Fabius is visiting Moscow to try to persuade Russia to support a UN Security Council resolution on Syria.On Monday, UN weapons inspectors said the nerve gas sarin was used against civilians on a relatively large scale in a suburb of Damascus last

DHAKA: The US, UK and France say a UN report confirming a chemical weapons attack in Damascus has vindicated their stance that Syria was to blame.The US and UK ambassadors to the UN said technical details showed only the regime could have been responsible for the attack on August

DHAKA: European lawmakers have nominated several candidates for the bloc`s top human rights prize, including Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai and US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.The European parliament said in a statement late on Monday they were among seven nominees for this

DHAKA: A gunman who died after killing 12 people at a naval installation in Washington DC has been identified as a former Navy serviceman.Aaron Alexis, 34, of Fort Worth, Texas, died in a gun battle with police during the rampage at Washington Navy Yard.Eight others were injured in the

DHAKA: At least 12 people were killed and at least four injured in a shooting at a naval installation in Washington DC.A gunman was killed at the scene. Police were initially searching for two additional "potential" gunman but one has since been ruled out.Shots were reported at 08:20

DHAKA: United Nations inspectors said on Monday there is ‘clear and convincing evidence’ that chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale in an attack last month in Syria that killed hundreds of people.The inspectors said ‘the environmental, chemical and medical samples

DHAKA: Departures have been halted at Washington’s Reagan National Airport due to a shooting at the United States Navy Yard, an official said on Monday.Chris Paolino, a spokesman for Reagan National Airport, said inbound aircraft are still landing and that the airport remains open to

DHAKA: Engineering officials in Italy said they have succeeded in lifting the cruise ship Costa Concordia free of rocks, 20 months after it ran aground.Efforts to right the ship, one of the largest and most daunting salvage operations ever undertaken, are expected to last up to 12

DHAKA: Syrian opposition fighters have reportedly shot down a Syrian helicopter, which fell 400 meters away from the Turkish border.Reports indicate that opposition fighters also shot dead two pilots after they ejected themselves after their chopper was hit.After a Turkish jet was downed,

DHAKA: Nine Egyptian policemen were wounded Monday when a bomb detonated on a road in North Sinai, near the border with the Gaza Strip, security sources in the country said.The blast hit a police bus as it travelled from Rafah, a town on the Gaza border, to el-Arish, an hour’s drive

DHAKA: Iran’s new atomic energy chief pledged increased cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog on Monday, less than two weeks before the two sides hold a new round of talks over Tehran’s disputed atomic activities.‘I have come here with a message of my newly elected president

DHAKA: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has risked prompting Chinese anger after it was confirmed she had a private meeting with the Dalai Lama on the sidelines of a Prague rights conference.Beijing has for decades opposed foreign dignitaries meeting Tibet’s exiled spiritual

DHAKA: A gunman has shot at least one person at the Washington Navy Yard, a naval installation in the US capital.The US Navy confirmed police had entered the building in search of a gunman, after at least three shots were fired at 08:20 local time (13:20 GMT), reports the BBC.At least one

DHAKA: Pope Francis and World Bank president Jim Yong Kim on Wednesday discussed the possibility of working together in the struggle against global extreme poverty during a meeting at the Vatican.‘What the Holy Father has been saying about inclusion and poverty is exactly the same thing

DHAKA: Iran’s deputy foreign minister pledged on Monday a ‘new approach’ to resolving United Nations. concerns about its nuclear programme, as he began talks on easing a deadlock over an investigation into suspicions of illicit nuclear bomb research by Teheran.Abbas Araqchi met UN

DHAKA: Spain has urged the US to give details of any eavesdropping amid reports it monitored 60 million Spanish phone calls in a month.The US ambassador to Spain, who had been summoned by the EU minister, vowed to clear the ‘doubts’ that had arisen about his country’s alleged