At least 53 people have been killed in an attack in Syria’s central desert province of Homs, state media has reported, blaming the killings on ISIL (ISIS). The bodies of the victims that were taken to the Palmyra state hospital had gunshot wounds to the head, state news agency

Indian tax authorities say they have uncovered irregularities in the BBC's accounting books after searches at the broadcaster's offices in the country. The statement, which does not directly name the BBC, comes after officials carried out a three-day operation at premises in

The death toll from the earthquake rose to nearly 44,000 on Friday, as hopes of finding survivors faded. The number of deaths recorded in Syria has so far reached 5,800, a number that has barely seen any increase in the past days. Turkey's relief agency AFAD stated that the

A Bangladeshi national, who had come to Kolkata for his wife's cancer treatment, was allegedly duped of Rs 10 lakh by a New Town resident. The victim, Md Nizamuddin, a resident of Dhaka, alleged that he had given the money to the accused, Shipan Kumar Basu - who reportedly runs a

The search of BBC offices in India by tax officials has ended after three days. The authorities entered the offices in New Delhi and Mumbai on Tuesday, with staff facing lengthy questioning or told to stay at the office overnight. The BBC said: "We will continue to co-operate

Recovery efforts continue in hard-hit areas of New Zealand on Friday after Cyclone Gabrielle caused chaos, leaving at least seven people dead and displacing 10,000 people in the country’s most damaging storm in decades. The cyclone, which hit New Zealand on Sunday before making

Alarm is growing over the World Food Programme’s (WFP) plan to cut food aid to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh because of a severe shortfall in funding. The WFP, the United Nations food agency, has said it will need to cut rations to the

Rescue workers on Thursday pulled a 12-year-old boy out alive from the under the rubble in Turkey’s earthquake zone, according to Turkish news agency Anadolu, which also reports that the death toll from the earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria on 6 February has now topped 41,000.

A 17-year-old girl has been rescued from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Kahramanmaras, 248 hours after the earthquake that killed more than 40,000 people in Turkey and Syria. The state broadcaster TRT Haber reported the rescue on Thursday. Source: The National BDST:

One person was killed and three more were wounded Wednesday in a shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, adding to the dozens of people already killed this year in mass shootings across the United States. El Paso police said hours after the gunfire that two people had been taken

An overwhelmed New Zealand has said it is open to offers of international assistance as it battles with the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, which caused widespread flooding and landslides in the country’s north and cut off some towns. Five people have been confirmed dead after

With the cause of Scottish independence stalled by a Westminster government veto on a new referendum, nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon on Wednesday offered a new approach to break the deadlock — her resignation as first minister of Scotland. But Sturgeon’s departure also

The total number of deaths rose to at least 41,219 on Tuesday after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria on Feb. 6, according to Turkish and Syrian officials. There were 35,418 people killed in Turkey, according to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of the threat posed by rising sea levels to hundreds of millions of people living in low-lying coastal areas and small island states as new data reveals seas have risen rapidly since 1900. In a stark address to the first UN

Four people have been confirmed dead and thousands displaced in New Zealand after Cyclone Gabrielle brought widespread flooding and landslides to the northern part of the country. Gabrielle, which reached New Zealand on Sunday before making its way down the east coast of the North

Three Bangladeshi students are dead and another is clinging to his life in hospital following a fiery rollover in Etobicoke. The crash, which OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt described as a “very violent collision” that involved “extreme high rates of speed,” happened

The US Army announced Tuesday that it had awarded $522 million in orders to two companies to manufacture 155 mm artillery ammunition for Ukraine. The orders, officially decided on January 30, went to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. and Global Military Products Inc. and came amid worries

The United Nations launched an appeal for $397 million on Tuesday to help earthquake victims in Syria, where the disaster has killed thousands of people and left millions more in desperate need of aid. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, announcing the appeal at the UN headquarters in

The White House has said there is no indication three flying objects blasted out of the sky over the weekend by the US military are linked to alleged Chinese spying. The objects may be "tied to commercial or research entities and therefore benign", spokesman John Kirby said.

Income Tax officials landed at the BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai this morning for searches, weeks after a huge controversy over the UK national broadcaster's documentary series on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and allegations linked to the 2002 Gujarat riots. The taxmen were