DHAKA: The anti-corruption minister in Brazil's interim government has resigned, after a recording suggested that he tried to wreck an investigation into the state oil company. Fabiano Silveira is the second interim minister to step down, a week after the planning minister resigned

DHAKA: French railway workers will go on strike as unions prolong to protest against deliberated labor reforms. This is likely to further interrupt a transport network already suffering from a lack of fuel, BBC reports on Tuesday (May 31). French President Francois Hollande has

DHAKA: Wildlife authorities in Thailand have begun removing tigers from a Buddhist temple, after accusations of wildlife trafficking and animal abuse. Three of the 137 tigers at the temple in Kanchanaburi province were moved on Monday. The 1,000-personnel operation will last all week.

DHAKA: North Korea has attempted to fire a ballistic missile off its east coast but the launch appears to have failed. South Korean military officials say, reports the BBC. It is unclear what type of missile it was, but it follows three failed tests of the medium-range ‘Musudan’

DHAKA: A major fire at an ammunition depot in Pulgaon of Maharashtra in India killed 17 army personnel and injured 19 others on Tuesday (May 31). Quoting defence sources, news agency PTI published the matter, TOI reports. Two officers and 15 Defence Security Corps jawans were among

DHAKA: Two Indian students were killed and at least 30 were injured after a live wire fell on their school bus in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. The students were returning from a picnic on Sunday evening when the incident occurred, BBC reports on Monday (May 30). It is not clear

DHAKA: The killing of a gorilla at a zoo in the US city of Cincinnati after a four-year-old boy fell into its enclosure has prompted anger on social media. Many said that male gorilla Harambe should not have been shot dead as he did not intend to hurt the boy, BBC reports on Monday

DHAKA: At least 35% of corals in the northern and central parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef have been ruined by bleaching. The experts from James Cook University (JCU) said that it is the most intense case of mass bleaching they have ever calculated at the World Heritage

DHAKA: Donald Trump took aspire on Sunday night (May 29) at Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol, who suggested on Twitter that news of an ‘impressive’ independent conservative presidential candidate is forthcoming. In a series of tweets, Trump criticized Kristol, calling him a

DHAKA: A Nepali soldier has won the world’s highest marathon on Mount Everest. Bed Bahadur Sunuwar was one of more than 150 local and foreign runners in the race, which began at Nepal’s base camp, reports the BBC. The annual run marks the anniversary of the first summit of the

DHAKA: The chief negotiator of Syria’s main opposition umbrella group, Mohammed Alloush, has resigned over what he called the failure of peace talks. Alloush, from the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), said the talks had not brought a political deal or eased the plight of Syrians in

DHAKA: Seventeen people have died in a fire at a building housing elderly people in a village near Ukraine's capital Kiev. The fire broke out in the early hours of Sunday in a two-storey building housing some 35 people, reports the BBC. “Emergency services units saved 18

DHAKA: French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are to mark the 100th anniversary of the battle of Verdun, the longest battle throughout World War One. Hundreds of thousands of French and German soldiers died during 10 months of fighting in north-eastern

DHAKA: Zoo officials have shot dead a gorilla after a four-year-old boy fell into its enclosed space in the US city of Cincinnati. The boy scrambled though a barrier and fell into a moat, where he was grabbed and dragged by the gorilla, BBC reports on Sunday (May 29). The zoo said

DHAKA: A Chinese firm has apologized over an advert for detergent which has annoyed a tempest of allegations of racism. The manufacturer of Qiaobi said it strongly opposed and damned racial discrimination, and was sorry the advert had caused controversy, BBC reports on Sunday (May 29).

DHAKA: The German airline, Lufthansa, has pronounced that it will suspend flights to Venezuela from 18 June due to economic difficulties in the country. The company also said currency controls in Venezuela made it impossible for airlines to convert their earnings into dollars and send

DHAKA: Pakistani authorities have banned all broadcast of advertisements for contraceptives. The regulator, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), said there had been public complaints that they provoked curiosity in ‘innocent children’, BBC reports on Saturday

DHAKA: Iraqi government forces have made gains in their revolting to drive Islamic State (IS) militants from Falluja one the country's two major cities in IS hands. The nearby town of Karma, the first line of IS defence, is now in the army's hands, BBC reports on Sunday (May

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia and Iran have failed to reach a deal on arrangements for Iranians to attend this year’s Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, with officials from both countries trading accusations on who was to blame for the impasse. Saudi officials accused their Iranian counterparts of

DHAKA: Former Argentine junta leader Reynaldo Bignone has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes committed under Operation Condor a plot between South America's dictators. Bignone and 14 other military officers were found guilty by a court in Argentina after a three-year