DHAKA: Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is poised to become the next UN secretary general, UN diplomats say. Guterres, 67, was the “clear favourite”, Russia’s UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin announced on Wednesday, reports the BBC. A formal vote will take place

DHAKA: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa. They developed the world’s smallest machines – a tiny lift, artificial muscles and miniscule motors, said a

DHAKA: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the group will publish about one million documents related to the US presidential election and three governments in coming weeks, but denied the release was aimed at damaging Hillary Clinton. Assange, speaking via a video link on Tuesday,

DHAKA: Russia has confirmed it has sent an S-300 air defense missile system to its naval base in Syria’s port of Tartus. Russia defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the purpose of the system was to guarantee the security of the base from the air. The move comes amid

DHAKA: Hurricane Matthew’s strong winds pounded Cuba on Tuesday night even as the powerful storm took its last lashes at Haiti, where it downed trees, drenched the ground with feet of rain and flooded streets. The damage was especially brutal in southern Haiti, where sustained winds

DHAKA: Myanmar has scrapped a stringent law which had been used by the former military leaders to silence opponents. The Emergency Provisions Act was introduced in 1950 after independence from Britain, reports the BBC. It allowed the authorities to detain people without charge and

DHAKA: One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent years has hit Haiti, bringing 145mph winds, heavy rain and dangerous storm surges. Hurricane Matthew, a Category Four storm, made landfall at the south-western tip at about 11:00 GMT. The US National Hurricane Center

DHAKA: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 was divided, one half awarded to David J. Thouless while the other half jointly to F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz. They won the prize “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of

DHAKA: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has appointed a team of senior government officials to launch talks with the opposition on changes to a peace deal with the Farc rebel group. Santos made the announcement after meeting with political party leaders, reports the BBC. The

DHAKA: The governor of Afghanistan’s Kunduz province says Taliban forces which staged an assault on the provincial capital have been defeated. Asadullah Amarkhil said fighting in Kunduz city had stopped, and there were large numbers of Taliban casualties. On Monday, Taliban

DHAKA: A senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood organization has been killed by Egyptian Interior Ministry forces, the ministry says. In a statement, it said Mohamed Kamal died in a gun battle along with another member of the group on Monday, the BBC publishes this report on Tuesday

DHAKA: Islamic State (IS) militants have claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing on Monday at a Kurdish wedding party in northeast Syria, the latest violent act to destabilize the embattled country. At least 22 people were killed and dozens more wounded in the explosion

DHAKA: Nearly a fifth of children in developing countries are living in extreme poverty, the World Bank and the UN’s children’s agency say. The children - nearly 385m in total - were in households making $1.90 a day or less, the report said. They include half the children in

The US has said it is suspending talks with Russia over Syria, accusing Moscow of having “failed to live up” to its commitments under a ceasefire deal. Washington blamed Russia and the Syrian government for intensifying their attacks against civilians, reports the BBC. Last

ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is reported to be “seriously ill” after having his “food poisoned by an assassin”. Meals prepared for Baghdadi and three other commanders of the terrorist organisation were allegedly poisoned in Nineveh’s Be’aaj district, reports the Daily

DHAKA: Taliban militants have launched a coordinated attack on the northern Afghan city of Kunduz. The militants attacked from four sides of the city in the middle of the night, reports BBC. Kunduz was briefly captured by the Taliban last September - the first time the insurgents

DHAKA: Yoshinori Ohsumi wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. This year’s Nobel Laureate discovered and elucidated mechanisms underlying autophagy, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components, said a Nobel Prize press

DHAKA: White House candidate Donald Trump’s allies have said he is a “genius” if a report is true that he paid no federal income taxes for 18 years. The New York Times said it had received some of Trump’s 1995 tax documents revealing $915m losses that allowed him to legally

DHAKA: One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent years has been moving across the Caribbean towards Jamaica, Haiti and eastern Cuba. Parts of Jamaica have already been lashed by rain and strong winds, with flood waters blocking roads in the capital, Kingston. A

A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel was killed and another injured as terrorists on Sunday night attacked adjoining army and BSF camps in Baramulla in north Kashmir, about 50 km from capital Srinagar. India's army said that the firing had stopped and the situation was