DHAKA: The man who killed a French police couple at their home near Paris was acting on an order from so-called Islamic State (IS) to “kill infidels”. Larossi Abballa, who was killed in a shootout with police, was loyal to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the officials said. A

DHAKA: President Barack Obama has said the Muslim ban proposed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is “not the America we want”. Treating Muslim-Americans differently will only make the country less safe by increasing division between the West and the Muslim world, he

DHAKA: The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando could face charges in connection with the attack. Prosecutors have convened a grand jury to investigate Noor Salman, wife of gunman Omar Mateen, reports the BBC. She is reported to have told police she

DHAKA: A total of 117 militants were killed amid military operations launched by Afghan security forces within the last 24 hours. The country’s defense ministry said on Tuesday, reports Xinhua. ‘Afghan security and defense forces conducted several military and cleanup operations

DHAKA: The man behind the worst mass shooting in recent US history visited the gay nightclub where he carried out the massacre several times, witnesses say. Chris Callen, a performer at Pulse in Orlando, Florida, told the Daily News that Omar Mateen had been attending the venue for the

DHAKA: European Council president Donald Tusk has warned that a UK vote to leave the EU could threaten ‘Western political civilization’. Tusk said a vote to leave the EU would boost anti-European forces. ‘As a historian I fear Brexit could be the beginning of the destruction

DHAKA: The ex-wife of a man who opened fire on a gay nightclub in Orlando in the early hours of Sunday has said he was ‘mentally unstable’ and ‘disturbed’. Omar Mateen killed 50 people and wounded 53 more in the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history, before being shot

DHAKA: Fifty people are now known to have died in Saturday’s shooting in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and a ‘state of emergency’ has been declared, the city's mayor Buddy Dyer has said. The gunman, named by officials as Omar Mateen, was killed after taking hostages.

DHAKA: At least 20 people have been killed and some 42 injured in a shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, police say. Orlando Police said officers entered the Pulse Club about three hours after the shooting unfolded - and killed the gunman, who had taken hostages. The BBC

DHAKA: A shooting inside a gay nightclub in the Florida city of Orlando has caused mass casualties, police say. Orlando Police also said in a tweet that the shooter inside the Pulse Club, located in the heart of the city, is now dead, reports the BBC. A bomb squad and hazardous

DHAKA: David Cameron and George Osborne say they might not be able to protect spending on pensions, the NHS and defense in the long term if the UK votes to leave the EU. The prime minister said the strain on public finances caused by Brexit would threaten the ‘triple lock’ which

DHAKA: A shooting has been reported at a nightclub in the Florida city of Orlando, and the attacker is said to have taken hostages. The incident happened at the Pulse Club, a gay nightclub in the city, reports the BBC. It posted on its Facebook page, ‘Everyone get out of pulse and

DHAKA: More than 80% of the world's population lives under light-polluted skies, a study suggests. Scientists explain in Science Advances how ground measurements and satellite data were used to create an atlas of a world brightened by artificial lights. It reveals that the

DHAKA: A plane powered entirely by the sun is flying to New York City. The Solar Impulse 2 has taken off from Lehigh Valley, 87 miles west of the ‘Big Apple’, on a journey that should take only a few hours, reports the BBC. The flight will mark the completion of the

DHAKA: Libyan forces say they have re-taken control of the port in the city of Sirte, after fierce fighting against militants from so-called Islamic State (IS). Sirte is the most significant IS stronghold outside Iraq and Syria. Earlier this week warplanes bombed IS positions in

DHAKA: Leaving the EU poses a ‘key risk’ to British science, a group of 13 Nobel prize-winning scientists have warned. The group, which includes Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle and geneticist Sir Paul Nurse, say the loss of EU funding would put

DHAKA: A court in Delhi has sentenced five men to life imprisonment for the 2014 gang rape of a Danish woman in the city. The 52-year-old tourist was robbed and raped at knife point in January 2014, BBC reports on Friday (June 10). Nine people, including three minors, were arrested

DHAKA: French President Francois Hollande has warned against attempts to disrupt Euro 2016 with strike action, on the eve of the football tournament. France has been in the grip of industrial action, mainly over reforms to labour law, and a train strike could affect Friday's

DHAKA: The former vice-president of the Maldives has been convicted over a plot to assassinate the current president. President Abdulla Yameen narrowly escaped injury when a blast struck the boat he was using to return home from the airport last September. His then-deputy Ahmed

DHAKA: New pieces of debris have been found in Madagascar by a man searching for parts of missing flight MH370. Blaine Gibson, who has already found possible debris in Mozambique, made the latest discovery on the east coast of Madagascar, reports the BBC. One of the parts resembles