DHAKA: Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and other regional leaders have signed a declaration of independence from Spain, following the disputed referendum, reports BBC. However, they say the move will not be implemented for several weeks to allow talks with the government in Madrid.

DHAKA: Parts of California's wine region are being ravaged by fast-spreading fires that have killed at least 10 people, reports BBC. Mass evacuations have taken place and at least 1,500 buildings have been destroyed.  Seven people were killed in Sonoma county, authorities

The 2017 Nobel Prize in economics has been awarded to the US academic Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago for his contribution to behavioural economics. The Guardian reports, the prize, worth 9m Swedish kroner (£845,000), is not among the Nobel Foundation’s official awards

DHAKA: Hurricane Nate has made landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana of United States, reports BBC quoting US National Hurricane Center (NHC). The storm, with maximum sustained winds of 85mph (137km/h), is moving north, and a second landfall is expected on the

DHAKA: EU President Donald Tusk has said that Myanmar must take back the Rohingya refugees who entered Bangladesh fleeing atrocities in Rakhine State. The EU chief said this after talks with Indian leaders in New Delhi on Friday (October 06). “The EU continues to assume its

DHAKA: Rallies are expected in Spain against Catalonian independence, after the disputed referendum of Sunday (October 1), reports BBC. Demonstrations are planned in the capital Madrid and other cities, with supporters calling for a similar rally in Catalonia's capital Barcelona.

DHAKA: Donald Trump's government issued a ruling that allows employers to opt out of providing free birth control to millions of Americans, reports BBC. The rule allows employers and insurers to decline to provide birth control if doing so violates their "religious beliefs" or

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia's King Salman, on a landmark visit to Russia, and President Vladimir Putin signed a slew of arms and energy deals, reports Al Jazeera. The agreement was announced on Thursday (October 5) as Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted King Salman - the first sitting

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia's King Salman, on a landmark visit to Russia, and President Vladimir Putin signed a slew of arms and energy deals, reports Al Jazeera. The agreement was announced on Thursday (October 5) as Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted King Salman - the first sitting

Myanmar's military crackdown that has caused a half-million Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh could destabilize the region and invite international terrorists, the State Department said Thursday (Oct 5). But Patrick Murphy, a senior U.S. official for Southeast Asia, would not

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. It won the prestigious honour for its "work to draw attention to the catastrophic consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its groundbreaking efforts to a achieve

DHAKA: Tropical Storm Nate has killed at least 22 people in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras before it moves north towards the US, reports BBC. A state of emergency has been declared in the Central American nations, where more than 20 people are missing. It has caused heavy rains,

Spain's Constitutional Court has suspended next Monday's session of Catalan parliament, in a bid to pre-empt a possible push for independence. The court said such a move would be "a breach of the constitution", reports the BBC. Earlier Prime Minister Mario Rajoy warned

Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese-born British novelist best known for “The Remains of the Day,” won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday (Oct 5). The selection of the 62-year-old Ishiguro marked a return to traditional literature following two years of unconventional choices by the

DHAKA: Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont lambasted Spain's King Felipe VI for "deliberately ignoring millions of Catalans", reports BBC. In a TV address, Puigdemont accused the king of adopting the Spanish government's position. "This moment calls for mediation," he said. He

DHAKA: Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont lambasted Spain's King Felipe VI for "deliberately ignoring millions of Catalans", reports BBC. In a TV address, Puigdemont accused the king of adopting the Spanish government's position. "This moment calls for mediation," he said. He

Three scientists have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy which simplifies and improves the imaging of biomolecules, the award-giving body said on Wednesday (Oct 4). The scientists are Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson.  

DHAKA: Catalonia’s President claimed the autonomous region will declare independence from Spain “at the end of this week or the beginning of next”, reports The Independent-UK. Carles Puigdemont told The BBC that it would be "an error which changes everything", if the Spanish

DHAKA: An honour granting Aung San Suu Kyi the Freedom of Oxford has been withdrawn by the city of Oxford because of her response to the Rohingya crisis, reports BBC. The de facto leader of Myanmar was granted the honour in 1997 for her "long struggle for democracy". But a motion to

The Nobel Physics Prize 2017 has been awarded to three scientists for their discoveries in gravitational waves. The scientists are Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics.  They are members of the LIGO-Virgo detector collaboration