DHAKA: North Korea has imprisoned a US man to 10 years of hard labour for spying.  The sentenced man was identified as Kim Dong-chul, a 62-year-old naturalized US citizen born in South Korea, who was arrested last October, BBC reports on Friday (April 29). Kim had made an apparent

DHAKA: US presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has been called “Lucifer in the flesh” by the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner. Boehner, a fellow Republican, has also reportedly said he will not vote for Cruz if he becomes the nominee, reports the BBC. Their

DHAKA: The UN says the situation in Syria’s city of Aleppo is catastrophic, after dozens of people were killed in attacks on targets including a hospital.   Air strikes on and around the Medecins Sans Frontieres-backed al-Quds hospital killed at least 27 people, while more than

DHAKA: North Korea has test fired a mid-range ballistic missile which crashed a few seconds after launch. South Korean military officials say, reports the BBC. It is thought to be the second test of the North's new Musudan missile. An attempt earlier this month also failed.

DHAKA: Billionaire Elon Musk is planning to send his Dragon spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018. Musk has long targeted a trip to Mars and has previously said he can get humans to the red planet by 2026. His company, SpaceX, is planning ‘Red Dragon’ missions to Mars to test

DHAKA: The US has returned an ancient Buddhist stone sculpture stolen in the 1980s, to Pakistan. The piece, depicting Buddha’s footprints alongside religious symbols, was stolen from the Swat Valley and eventually smuggled into the US. A Japanese antiques dealer who brought it to

DHAKA: Donald Trump has detailed his foreign policy in a speech, a day after sweeping to a win in five US primaries. Trump, the likely victor for the Republican candidacy in the 2016 presidential race, said that he would pursue an ‘America First’ policy. He called the foreign

DHAKA: The UN diplomat to Syria Staffan de Mistura has urged the US and Russia to urgently intrude ‘at the highest level’ to salvage talks. Speaking after conference the UN Security Council on the wavering peace process, de Mistura said that a truce agreed in February was ‘barely

DHAKA: Workers Party of North Korea will hold its first congress in nearly 40 years next month. The meeting, which will take place in Pyongyang from May 6, will be only the seventh in the party’s history and the first under leader Kim Jong-un. It will be closely watched for signs

DHAKA: Donald Trump has won presidential primaries in all five US states, while Hillary Clinton sweeps four out of five that voted on Tuesday (April 26). Trump believes being the Republican "presumptive nominee" after victories in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode

DHAKA: At least eleven persons were killed and five others injured in a road accident in Karnataka province of India. The accident took place at the Koppal area in the state on Monday (April 25) when a local large auto-rickshaw (Tum-tum) carrying passengers collided head-on with a

DHAKA: Ukraine has begun commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.   Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986, reports the BBC. The meltdown at the plant remains the

DHAKA: The Council of Ministers of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has approved Vision 2030, the ambitious plan to transform the Saudi economy away from its dependence on oil, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman announced on Monday.   King Salman made the announcement while

DHAKA:  At least 11 coal miners went missing after the coal mine flooded in northern China on Monday (April 25). The accident took place in Tongchuan city in Shaanxi province. A total of 67 workers were in the mine shaft but the rest managed to escape, Xinhua said, citing the

DHAKA: Team of Cruz and Kasich, stood for the Republican party’s presidential nomination have declared that they will now co-ordinate strategies against Donald Trump. Cruz will cut campaigning in the Oregon and New Mexico primaries to help Kasich, while the latter will give Cruz a

DHAKA: The Kurdish rebel PKK movement has told the BBC that it is ready to intensify its fight against Turkey because Ankara is trying to make it surrender. Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Cemil Bayik said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was ‘escalating this war’. ‘The

DHAKA: Police in Australia have charged a 16-year-old with preparing an act of terrorism, saying they believe he was plotting to target Anzac Day services.   It is the second year in a row that authorities say they have intercepted an attack linked to the holiday, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama is to send 250 additional military personnel to Syria to support local militias in the fight against so-called Islamic State (IS).   According to officials, the goal is to encourage more Sunni Arabs to join Kurdish fighters in north-eastern Syria,

DHAKA: More than 800 members of Al-Qaeda were killed in a military offensive against the group in the south of Yemen, the Saudi-led Arab coalition operating in the country said on Monday.   Quoting coalition commanders the official Saudi news agency SPA published the news, reports

DHAKA: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has hailed a submarine-launched ballistic missile test as an ‘eye-opening success’, declaring Pyongyang has the ability to strike Seoul and the US whenever it pleases. North Korea the state media said, Al Jazeera publishes this report on