DHAKA: The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft has set off from New York to cross the Atlantic, one of the toughest stages of its attempt to fly around the globe using solar energy. The pilot, Bertrand Piccard, will attempt to reach Seville in Spain in about 90 hours. It is the first ever

DHAKA: Conflict and persecution caused global forced displacement to escalate sharply in 2015 reaching the highest level ever recorded and representing immense human suffering. The annual Global Trends report released by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday

DHAKA: The number of people displaced by conflict is at the highest level ever recorded. The UN refugee agency says, reports the BBC. It estimates that 65.3m people were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of 5m in a year. This

DHAKA: At least 14 Nepalese security guards have been killed after a suicide bomber hit a minibus in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, along the main road to the eastern city of Jalalabad. The attacker on Monday was on foot, police said, as they reported multiple casualties among the bus

DHAKA: At least three people have been killed and 45 people, including many police officers, were injured in southern Mexico in clashes between protesting teachers and police. The incident took place in the state of Oaxaca, where two high-profile union leaders were arrested last week,

DHAKA: The memory units of both flight recorders from the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month are severely damaged. The Egyptian aircraft accident investigation committee sources told this on Sunday (June 19). The memory units of the Cockpit Voice

DHAKA: The anti-establishment Five Star Movement has made big gains in Italy, winning mayoral races in Rome and Turin, early results show. Virginia Raggi will become Rome’s first female leader, in a victory seen as a blow to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his centre-left Democratic

DHAKA: The presumptive Republican candidate in the US presidential election, Donald Trump, has suggested the country should consider using profiling to combat crime. Mr Trump made the remarks when asked if he supported more profiling of Muslims in the US, in the context of last

DHAKA: Crowds are gathering on the Japanese island of Okinawa to protest against the heavy US military presence there. Demonstrators are angry after a former US Marine employed as a civilian worker was arrested over the rape and murder of a local 20-year-old woman. The case has

DHAKA: The UK faces an ‘existential choice’ in the EU referendum from which there would be ‘no turning back’, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. Cameron said choosing to leave the EU in Thursday’s vote would be a ‘big mistake’ and lead to ‘debilitating

DHAKA: Rome is likely to elect its first female mayor in a run-off vote in municipal elections. Virginia Raggi, from the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, is seen as favorite against Roberto Giachetti of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), BBC reports on Sunday (June 19).

DHAKA: World’s largest nuclear icebreaker, Arktika, has been launched at the Baltic Shipyard in St Petersburg of Russia on Thursday (June 16). The vessel is 189.5 yards long and 37.1 yards wide and is fitted with two designed RITM-200 nuclear-power reactors. The maximum thickness of

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has hosted Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House in a move aimed at thawing relations between the two countries after Washington’s apparent rapprochement with its main regional rival, Iran. The 30-year-old prince - who has

DHAKA: Iraqi government forces have retaken most of the city of Falluja from so-called Islamic State fighters who have held it since 2014, officials say. US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said there was ‘still some fighting to be done’ as IS still controls a significant part of the

DHAKA: Vladimir Putin is seemed unhappy with the decision as Russian athletes are banned from international competition and Olympics of 2016. Putin has said that it is unjust and unfair that Russian athletes remain banned from international competition, including the 2016 Olympics in

DHAKA: The Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro has announced a financial emergency. This announcement for state financial emergency will be less than 50 days before the Olympics. Interim Governor Francisco Dornelles said that the ‘serious economic crisis’ threatens to stop the

DHAKA: A man has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting of Labour MP Jo Cox. England's West Yorkshire Police said Thomas Mair, 52, has been charged with the murder of the 41-year-old lawmaker, reports the BBC. She was shot and stabbed outside her constituency

DHAKA: Medical aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said that it will no longer take funds from the European Union in protest at its migration policy. MSF singled out the EU's deal with Turkey under which Turkey agreed to take back any migrants who crossed the sea to Greece

DHAKA:  Eleven people convicted of murder in the Gulbarg Society massacre in Gujarat of India were sentenced to life in jail by a special SIT court on Friday. Of the 13 people convicted for lesser crimes, one was sentenced to 10 years in jail and 12 were given seven years in jail,

DHAKA: Honor has been paid around the world to Labour MP Jo Cox, who died after being shot and stabbed. Earlier on Thursday (June 16) the 41-year-old was attacked after holding a electorate surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire, BBC reports on Friday (June 17). Among those who