Bangladesh's capital Dhaka has ranked the seventh least liveable city in the world for the second consecutive year in the Global Liveability Index for 2023. The annual global survey by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a sister organisation to The Economist, was published on

The death toll from an explosion which ripped through a barbecue restaurant in Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on Wednesday night, has risen to 31, local authorities said on Thursday. The blast happened at around 8:40 p.m. on a busy street in Xingqing District of

A deadly Israeli drone attack hit a vehicle in the northern West Bank in a new escalation of attacks on the occupied Palestinian territory. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported three people were killed late Wednesday in the attack. The air raid occurred in the Jenin

Thirty-seven people have been injured, four of them seriously, after a large explosion in central Paris. The blast took place in a building that housed a design school and the Catholic education system headquarters in Rue Saint-Jacques, in the fifth arrondissement of the French

Summary More noises have been heard in the search for the missing Titanic sub, the US Coast Guard says. Capt Jamie Frederick says they still do not know what the noises are - but teams are looking in that area. The search is being expanded - the surface search is now twice the

A fire at a New York City e-bike shop quickly spread to upper-floor apartments and killed four people early Tuesday in the latest deadly blaze linked to exploding lithium ion batteries. The fire, reported shortly after midnight, happened at a shop that was cited last summer for safety

A grisly riot at a women’s prison Tuesday left at least 41 women dead, most burned to death, in violence the country’s president blamed on “mara” street gangs that often wield broad power inside penitentiaries. Most victims were burned but there also were

Dozens of his fellow Democrats urged US President Joe Biden on Tuesday to raise human rights issues with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Washington this week, according to a letter sent to Biden. Modi landed in New York on Tuesday night for a visit projected as

Four people were killed and four more were wounded in shootings near the settlement of Eli in the West Bank, Israeli authorities and emergency services said Tuesday. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis since January, CNN records show. One of the suspected gunman was killed at

The tourist submersible that has gone missing in the North Atlantic with five people on board has less than 30 hours of air left according to official estimates. Contact with the miniature sub was lost on Sunday as it made a 3,800m descent to the Titanic wreck off the coast of

The leader of the world's most populous nation will also receive all the pomp of a state dinner at the White House on Thursday -- only Biden's third since his inauguration. Hailed by New Delhi as a "historic" chance to "expand and consolidate" ties, the

A massive search and rescue operation is under way in the mid Atlantic after a tourist submarine went missing during a dive to Titanic's wreck on Sunday. Contact with the small sub was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive, the US Coast Guard said. Tour firm OceanGate

China and the United States have agreed to try and stabilise relations to avoid veering into conflict, but did not announce any major breakthroughs during a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Beijing. A roughly 30-minute meeting with Xi on Monday was Blinken’s final

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Israel to immediately “cease all settlement activities” in occupied Palestinian territory, describing Israel’s plans to advance the building of Israeli settlements as driving “tensions and

The authorities of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have decided to restore diplomatic relations, and embassies and consulates of the two states will start working on Monday, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said. "On the basis of an agreement and aspiration of both states towards

Australia’s parliament has passed legislation to pave the way for a historic referendum on Aboriginal rights, with voters set to decide if the Indigenous population gets a dedicated “voice” in national policymaking. In a final vote in the Senate, the upper house, 52

Israel’s hardline coalition government has approved plans for thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank and given the far-right finance minister sweeping powers to expedite the construction of illegal settlements, bypassing measures that have been in place for 27

United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has met China’s top diplomat Wang Yi in Beijing as the two countries take steps to repair their strained relationship. The duo posed for a photo on Monday at Beijing’s Diaoyutai State Guesthouse before heading into diplomatic

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Beijing for two days of meetings with Chinese officials. The trip marks the first visit by an American diplomat to China in almost five years. US officials say the main goal of the talks is to stabilise a relationship that has

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa – who is in Russia as part of a peace-seeking delegation – told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the war in Ukraine must stop. Ramaphosa laid out the 10 points of the African peace initiative that is seeking agreement on a