DHAKA: Hillary Clinton’s campaign is being urged by a number of top computer scientists to call for a recount of vote totals in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to a source with knowledge of the request. The computer scientists believe they have found evidence that

DHAKA: Colombia’s government says it will sign a new peace accord with Farc rebels on Thursday, after a previous deal was rejected in a referendum last month. The new revised agreement will be submitted to Congress for approval, rather than put to a popular vote reports the BBC.

DHAKA: Donald Trump’s grandfather was kicked out of his native Germany for failing to do his mandatory military service there, a historian has claimed. A local council letter from 1905 informed Friedrich Trump who had become a United States citizen that he would not be granted his

DHAKA: Donald Trump has cancelled a meeting with the New York Times, a day after berating media chiefs at his headquarters for “unfair” coverage. Without elaborating, the US president-elect tweeted that the newspaper had changed the terms of the meeting, reports the BBC. He

DHAKA: Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has withdrawn a bill that pardons men convicted of sex with underage girls if they have married them. The bill, part of a package of amendments to the legal system, was sent back for further work just hours before a final vote in

Slippery conditions and fog are thought to have contributed to a huge highway pileup that killed 17 people in northeastern China. The crash involved 56 vehicles on the Beijing-Kunming highway in China's Shanxi province around 9:00 am Monday, according to state news agency Xinhua,

President-elect Donald Trump unveiled plans Monday (November 22) for his first 100 days in office, including proposals related to immigration, trade deals and defense policy, using a video published online to briefly outline his proposals. Trump promised to withdraw from negotiations

A 7.4 magnitude earthquake off north-eastern Japan near Fukushima prefecture has prompted a tsunami advisory. The quake struck on Tuesday morning at about 6:00 am local time (21:00 GMT, Monday), the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The depth of the quake was estimated to be 30km

DHAKA: The UK government is considering inviting US President-elect Donald Trump for a state visit, Downing Street has said. The Republican, who beat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the election earlier this month, is due to take office on 20 January. Earlier this year, MPs

DHAKA: A suicide bomber has blown himself up inside a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing at least 27 people on Monday (November 21). The explosion triggered by a suicide bomber happened in Baqer-ul-uloom mosque in the Darul Aman area, according to the interior ministry.

DHAKA: French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been knocked out of a primary to choose the presidential candidate of the centre-right Republican Party. Admitting defeat, Sarkozy endorsed Francois Fillon, a moderate who finished first in Sunday’s first round, according to

DHAKA: Rescue workers have given up on finding survivors in the wreckage of the Indore-Patna Express, which went off the tracks near Kanpur before daybreak on Sunday, killing 143 passengers in their sleep. After an overnight effort by personnel of the army, police and the National

DHAKA: Germany’s centre-right Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that she will run for a fourth term in office. Speaking at a meeting of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Berlin, she said she expected her toughest campaign to date, and vowed to “fight for our values and

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama has said he may speak out after leaving office if he feels his successor Donald Trump is threatening core American values. By convention, former presidents tend to leave the political fray and avoid commenting on their successors. Speaking at a news

DHAKA: At least 120 people were killed in their sleep and nearly 200 injured after the Indore-Patna Express train jumped the tracks near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday morning.   Fourteen coaches of the train travelling with more than 500 passengers rolled off track a little after

US President-elect Donald Trump has met one of his fiercest critics, Mitt Romney, with reports suggesting he may be considered for secretary of state. Neither man gave details of their 80-minute meeting on Saturday. Romney said the talks had been “far-reaching”. During the

At least 63 people have lost their lives after a train derailed near Pukhrayan district in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh of India in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the latest reports. Fourteen coaches of the Patna-Indore express train have derailed around 5:00 am, reports the

At least 20 people were killed and several injured as more than 10 coaches of the Indore-Patna Express ran off the tracks near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh of India on Sunday (November 20). The incident took place at around 3:00 am near Pukhrayan, about 100 km from Kanpur, reports NDTV.

DHAKA: An official in the Pakistani-administered area of Kashmir has accused Indian forces of firing mortar shells that targeted a village along the disputed Line of Control (LOC), leaving three children killed and three others injured. “Two girls and their brother died when mortar

DHAKA: For what appears to be the first time since scientists began keeping track, sea ice in the Arctic and the Antarctic are at record lows this time of year. “It looks like, since the beginning of October, that for the first time we are seeing both the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice