DHAKA: Donald Trump rejected a Muslim lawyer’s assertion on the Democratic convention stage that the Republican nominee has ‘sacrificed nothing and no one’. ‘Who wrote that? Did Hillary’s script writers write it?’ Trump said that in an interview with ABC News’ George

DHAKA: In the past week it was seen flowers and candles carpeting a street in Munich, the tranquility of a small Bavarian town shattered by a suicide bomb and a small church in suburban France sealed off after its octogenarian priest had his throat cut. Before these horrific events,

DHAKA: American Luke Aikins has become the first person to jump from 25,000-ft without a parachute, landing safely in a net. Aikins, who has more than 18,000 jumps under his belt, fell dead centre into the 100x100ft net in Simi Valley, southern California. During the two-minute fall

DHAKA: The Turkish military has killed 35 Kurdish militants who tried to storm a base in the south-east, officials say. The overnight attack, in the Cukurca district of Hakkari province near the Iraqi border, came hours after clashes between soldiers and militants left eight soldiers

DHAKA: Turkey president Erdogan declared that he will withdraw all lawsuits against people charged with insulting him. Erdogan said that he was inspired by the feelings of unity in the wake of the recent failed coup. But he also stepped up his attacks on nations criticizing his

DHAKA: The UN Security Council has authorized the deployment of a UN police force to Burundi to try to quell violence and human rights abuses in the country. The council backed a French-drafted resolution to send up to 228 police for an initial period of a year, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean early Saturday. The quake occurred at a depth of 117 miles (212 km) some 19 miles south-southwest of the uninhabited island of Agrihan in the U.S. territory, the U.S. Geological Survey. No tsunami

DHAKA: Syrian jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra, also known as the Nusra Front, has announced it has split from al-Qaeda. Leader Abu Mohammed al-Julani, in his first recorded message, said its new name would be Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (Front for the Conquest of Syria/the Levant). He said

DHAKA:  A couple from India’s Dalit community has been hacked to death after a row over a 15 rupees (17.56 BDT) debt in Uttar Pradesh state. The deceased were identified as Bharat and Mamta, formerly known as untouchables, form the lowest rung of India's caste hierarchy, BBC

DHAKA: Chancellor Angela Merkel has said recent attacks in Germany involving asylum-seekers would not change its willingness to take in refugees. She said the attackers “wanted to undermine our sense of community, our openness and our willingness to help people in need. We firmly

DHAKA: Hillary Clinton has told voters the presidential election is a “moment of reckoning”, as she made history by accepting the Democratic nomination. Speaking on the final night of the party’s convention in Philadelphia, the first woman nominated by a major party said there

DHAKA: Hillary Clinton accepted her party's presidential nomination after taking stage of the Democratic National Convention. Clinton appeared on local time Thursday (July 29) almost overcome with emotion as she enter the arena to loud cheers and embraced her daughter, Chelsea, who

DHAKA: The rapid growth in the illegal killing of African elephants seen since 2006 seems to have stabilized and may be decreasing. Two new reports indicate that across the continent, the numbers of elephants being killed for ivory has slowed, BBC reports on Thursday (July 28). But

DHAKA: French prosecutors have identified the second man involved in the killing of a priest in a Normandy church on Tuesday. Like the other attacker, Adel Kermiche, he was known to the security services and a 19-year-old Abdel Malik Petitjean. The teenagers were shot dead by police

DHAKA: Corridors are to be opened to allow civilians and unarmed rebels to leave the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo. Russia – Syria’s key ally - has said, reports the BBC. Three routes would be opened and a fourth for armed rebels, Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu said.

DHAKA: The Turkish authorities have announced the closure of dozens of media organizations, as a crackdown continues following the failed coup on 15 July. Three news agencies, 16 TV channels, 45 papers and 15 magazines will be shut, reports the BBC. Separately, nearly 1,700 members

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama said there has never been a man or woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified to serve as president of the United States of America than Hilary Clinton. He made the comment while addressing the day three of the Democratic National Convention in

DHAKA: John Hinckley Jr, the man who tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan, is to be released from a psychiatric hospital next month after 35 years. Reagan and three others were injured in the shooting outside a hotel in Washington in March 1981. Hinckley was found not

DHAKA: A car bomb has exploded in a predominantly Kurdish town in northern Syria, killing at least 50 people and wounding dozens. Syrian state TV said the car blew up on the western edge of the town of Qamishli, near the Turkish border on Wednesday, reports Al Jazeera. The Islamic

DHAKA: An Australian teenager who has become the face of a juvenile detention scandal has apologized for his crimes. Images of Dylan Voller cuffed to a mechanical restraint chair drew widespread condemnation after they were aired on Australian television, BBC reports on Wednesday (July