DHAKA: Five tiny Pacific islands have disappeared amid rising seas and erosion, Australian researchers say. The missing islands, part of the Solomon Archipelago, were not inhabited by human beings, reports the BBC. But six other islands were found to have seen swathes of land turn

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama is to visit Hiroshima this month - the first serving president to travel to the Japanese city, which was hit by a US nuclear attack in 1945. The visit will be part of an Asian trip that will also take in Vietnam, reports the BBC. The Hiroshima

DHAKA: Maverick anti-crime candidate Rodrigo ‘Digong’ Duterte has won the Philippine presidential elections, following the withdrawal of his opponents. Although the official result has not yet been declared, main rival Mar Roxas admitted defeat after polls gave Duterte an

DHAKA: The Panama Papers affair has widened, with a huge database of documents relating to more than 200,000 offshore accounts posted online. The database became accessible from 18:00 GMT at offshoreleaks.icij.org, reports the BBC. The Panama Papers have shown how some wealthy

DHAKA: Hardline anti-crime candidate Rodrigo Duterte looks set to become president of the Philippines after polls gave him an incontrovertible lead. Mr Duterte, who stirred controversy during campaigning with his incendiary comments, said he accepted the apparent mandate with

DHAKA: The leader of so-called Islamic State (IS) in Iraq's Anbar province has been killed in a coalition air strike. Abu Waheeb, formerly a member of al-Qaeda in Iraq, was killed in a raid on Friday, according to the Pentagon, BBC reports Monday (May 9). Waheeb has falsely been

DHAKA: People in the Philippines are voting for a new president and other leaders, with candid mayor Rodrigo ‘Digong’ Duterte the favourite to win. Five candidates are running but Mr Duterte led polls ahead of voting, despite controversial comments while campaigning and a hard-line

DHAKA: As much as 73 people have been killed and dozens of others injured after two passenger buses and a fuel tanker burst into flames following a head-on collision in eastern Afghanistan. Many of the dead, including children, were burned beyond recognition as a result of Sunday's

DHAKA: At least nine people, including four women and a child, were killed when a truck hit a van at Thappathi in Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu in India.  All the deceased were passengers in the van, Times of India reports on Monday (May 9). Police said a group of people were

DHAKA: At least eight people confirmed dead, and some 41 construction workers are missing after a landslide at a construction site for a hydroelectric power plant in southeastern China. The incident occurred after eight inches of rain fell in less than 24 hours last weekend in

DHAKA: Some four gunmen killed eight police officers dressed in plainclothes south of Cairo on Sunday (May 8). The officers were traveling in a government minivan and conducting security checks in Helwan district when they were attacked, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said in a

DHAKA: At least 50 people were killed in a traffic accident in central Ghazni province of Afghanistan early Sunday Local officials said, 57 other people were injured. The incident took place in Muqur district of the province after two passenger buses crashed with a fuel tanker, a

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude oil exporter, appointed Khalid al-Falih, chairman of the state oil giant Saudi Aramco, as its new energy minister, replacing Ali al-Naimi, who had held the post since 1995. A royal decree quoted on local television said that the

DHAKA: An Egyptian court Saturday sentenced six people to death, including two Al Jazeera journalists, who were accused of leaking state secrets to Qatar. The case of jailed former President Mohamed Morsi, who is also charged for espionage for Qatar, was however, adjourned. The

DHAKA: More than 50 mass graves have been discovered in territory formerly controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq, including three burial pits in a football field. Jan Kubis, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq, told the Security

DHAKA: At least seventeen people are missing after a Chinese fishing boat collided with a foreign cargo ship and sank in the East China Sea.   The fishing boat, Lu Rong Yu had 19 people on board when the incident happened, it is said that adding that two people had been rescued by

DHAKA: A truce in the Syrian city of Aleppo has been extended for till Monday to “prevent the situation from worsening”. Quoting the Russian defence ministry officials, BBC reports the matter. The Syrian army announced a two-day truce on Wednesday, after two weeks of clashes

DHAKA: The only land convoy evacuating the Canadian city of Fort McMurray has been disrupted due to 200ft (60m) flames flanking the road. Quoting officials, BBC reports the matter. The police-escorted convoy of 1,500 vehicles was due to pass by the southern part of the city but was

DHAKA: Sadiq Khan has been elected the new Mayor of London - boosting Labour after it slumped in Scotland’s elections. Khan is the city’s first Muslim mayor, after beating Tory Zac Goldsmith by 1,310,143 votes to 994,614, reports the BBC. The result bolsters leader Jeremy Corbyn

DHAKA: Police have arrested three men three days after the gang rape of a 19-years-old nursing student in an auto-rickshaw in Kerala, India. The teen girl, a second year student, had told the police that she was assaulted by her friend Shyju and Sujith in an auto-rickshaw on Tuesday at