DHAKA: A woman has died and five other people were injured in a knife attack in Russell Square, central London. Police were called at 22:33 BST on Wednesday to reports of a man injuring people with a knife. One of the victims, a woman in her 60s, was treated at the scene but was

DHAKA: Fresh divisions are emerging within the US Republican Party over its presidential candidate Donald Trump. Republican donor Meg Whitman has endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton, saying Trump’s ‘demagoguery’ had undermined the national fabric. Senior party activist Jan

DHAKA: An Emirates airline flight from India has crash-landed at Dubai International Airport. The Dubai government media office says, reports the BBC. Images posted online show thick black smoke coming from the plane. The Dubai government media office said all passengers were

DHAKA: Two leading international campaign groups claimed that the Australian government has a deliberate policy of ignoring abuse of asylum seekers. Australia transports asylum seekers who arrive by boat to off-shore processing centers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea. Human Rights

DHAKA: Donald Trump has dismissed Barack Obama’s time in the White House as a ‘disaster’ after the US president said he was not fit to succeed him. “He’s been weak, he’s been ineffective,” Republican candidate Trump said of Obama in a Fox News interview on Tuesday,

DHAKA: North Korea has test-fired a ballistic missile which travelled 1,000km before landing in Japanese waters. The South and Japan say, reports the BBC. The missile was launched off the North's east coast early on Wednesday. The North is barred from developing nuclear and

DHAKA: At least 22 people are missing after a highway bridge connecting the city of Mumbai with the beach resort state of Goa in western India collapsed. Officials said two buses carrying passengers plunged into a flooded river after the collapse early on Wednesday, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: At least 22 people have been killed and 20 wounded in a car bomb attack in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, according to medical officials. Tuesday's attack targeted forces loyal to eastern commander Khalifa Haftar, known as the Libyan National Army (LNA), spokesman

DHAKA: An FBI employee with top secret security clearance has pleaded guilty to acting as an ‘agent of the Chinese government’. Kun Shan Chun, a naturalized US citizen born in China and known as Joey, confesses in court to sending sensitive information to a Chinese official. US

DHAKA: Venezuela’s national election council has declared its approval of the first step in an opposition campaign to recall President Nicolas Maduro. It said that the opposition had succeeded in gathering 1% of voter signatures in all 24 of Venezuela’s states. The move is the

DHAKA: Qusai Abtini, a 14-year-old boy who played a role in the first television comedy produced in rebel-held parts of Syria, was killed when a missile struck a car he was in as he tried to escape the city of Aleppo. Abtini was 10 years old when protests first erupted against the rule

DHAKA: The United States has carried out air strikes on positions of so-called Islamic State (IS) in Libya, following a request by the UN-backed government there. The Pentagon says, reports the BBC. The strikes targeted positions in the port city of Sirte, an IS stronghold.

DHAKA: Republican candidate Donald Trump has called Democratic rival Hillary Clinton “the devil”, in the face of continuing fire from within his own party. Speaking at a rally in a high school gym in Pennsylvania, Trump attacked Bernie Sanders for capitulating to Clinton in the

DHAKA: Five Russians on board a military helicopter were killed when it was shot down by rebels in northern Syria, Russia has said. The Mi-8 transporter came down in Idlib province. It was carrying three crew and two officers, Russia’s defense ministry said, reports the BBC. The

DHAKA: Syrian rebels have launched an offensive aimed at breaking a government siege of eastern Aleppo, where the UN estimates some 300,000 people are trapped with dwindling food and medical supplies. A rebel alliance that includes the Jabhat Fatah al Sham group - which was formerly

DHAKA: Former defense minister Yuriko Koike has been elected governor of Tokyo, the first woman to lead Japan’s capital. Koike, running as an independent candidate, received more than 2.9 million votes in Sunday’s election, beating her opponents by a wide margin, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: Muslims across France have attended Catholic Mass in a gesture of solidarity after the murder of a priest on Tuesday. Fr Jacques Hamel was killed in his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen by two men who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group.

DHAKA: Turkey's president declared that he wants to close the nation's military academies and put the spy agency and the military chief of staff under his own control. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the proposals would be brought before parliament. The measures are the

DHAKA: Tunisia’s parliament has passed a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Habib Essid, effectively dismissing the government of the US-trained economist. A total of 188 MPs voted to sack Essid, with only three supporting him, reports the BBC. Essid, who has been in office

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