DHAKA: North Korea is holding its first party congress in decades, as leader Kim Jong-un seeks to make stronger his status and chart a vision for the future. Thousands of delegates are meeting for a choreographed show of support being seen as an unofficial coronation, BBC reports on

DHAKA: A massive wildfire in Alberta, Canada, has moved south, forcing more evacuations. The fire is now 85,000 hectares, or 850 sq km, which is larger than the city of Calgary. It has grown five times its initial size since it broke out, prompting more than 88,000 evacuations.

DHAKA: US House Speaker Paul Ryan has said he cannot currently support Donald Trump as Republican presidential nominee. Ryan, the highest-ranked elected Republican, called for Trump to strive for ‘higher aspirations’. Trump, he said, ‘deserved’ the nomination but must do

DHAKA: Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in an air strike on a refugee camp in rebel-held northern Syria. Syria war monitors say, the BBC publishes the report on Friday (May 6). Images on social media showed tents destroyed at the Kamouna camp near Sarmada in Idlib

DHAKA: Former US presidents George H W Bush and George W Bush will not endorse Donald Trump’s candidacy for president. Aides have told local media, reports the BBC. This marks a first for the 91-year-old former president Bush, who had endorsed Republicans in the past five

DHAKA: Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says he will stand down at an extraordinary congress of his ruling AK Party later this month. Speculation about his resignation has been rife since Davutoglu met President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday, reports the BBC. He is long

DHAKA: India’s killer heat wave is leaving the country reeling from the worst drought in decades and a rural population struggling to survive. Relief is due with the arrival of the monsoon in mid-June, and because of the impending La Nina weather pattern, the forecast is for

DHAKA: Some 16 people were killed and 56 others injured in a bus accident in Chhattisgarh's Balrampur district of India on Wednesday night. Police said the bus fell off a small bridge into a dry rivulet in Chhattisgarh's Times Of India reports on Thursday (May 5). The

DHAKA:  A state of emergency has been declared at Alberta in Canada after a wildfire enforced all 88,000 residents of Fort McMurray to flee. Local Officials warn that the blaze could destroy much of the city and the next 24 hours will be crucial BBC reports on Thursday (May 5). The

DHAKA: A huge wildfire has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from Fort McMurray - nearly all the residents of the Canadian city. The blaze has destroyed a number of homes, dropping ash on the streets of the city in the province of Alberta, reports the BBC. Fleeing

DHAKA: Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee following a decisive victory in the Indiana primary and the decision by Ted Cruz to drop out of the race. Though Trump has not formally secured the 1,237 delegates he needs to win the nomination -- and likely

DHAKA: Ted Cruz has announced he is ending his campaign for the US Republican presidential nomination, after losing heavily to Donald Trump in the Indiana primary. Trump, a New York businessman who is unpopular with many in his own party, is almost certain to be the nominee, reports

DHAKA: Solar Impulse, the zero-fuel aeroplane, has flown the first leg across the continental United States in its attempt to fly around the world. It left Mountain View, California, at dawn on Monday and landed 16 hours later in Goodyear, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: The European Commission will grant Turkey conditional approval for visa-free travel within the EU’s Schengen area. The move is part of a deal in which Turkey has agreed to take back migrants who have crossed the Aegean to Greece, reports the BBC. But Turkey must still meet

DHAKA: The bodies of two American climbers have been found in a glacier in the Himalayas, 16 years after they were killed by a huge avalanche. World-renowned mountaineer Alex Lowe had been climbing the 8,013-m Shishapangma peak in Tibet in October 1999 with cameraman David Bridges when

DHAKA:  Some six people have died in the fires and thousands of people are battling deadly forest fires in India's northern Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. Fire burned more than 1,900 hectares of forest, BBC reports on Monday (May 2). The fires broke out a month ago, but

DHAKA: Donald Trump has compared the US’s trade deficit with China, which he regularly laments and vows to tackle as president, to rape. Trump has frequently accused China of manipulating its currency to make its exports more competitive on the global market and has claimed that

DHAKA: At least 4 people were killed and several others injured after crude bombs exploded in Malda district of West Bengal in India late on Sunday night. The incident happened at Baishnab Nagar in the district, reports NDTV. A massive police team reached the location and is

DHAKA: Supporters of a Shia Muslim cleric have set up camp outside parliament in Baghdad, after thousands stormed the Green Zone secure area. For the first time in weeks of protests they broke into the area, home to embassies and government buildings, BBC reports on Sunday (MAY 1). 

DHAKA: Some thirteen people have been died after a helicopter crashed in west of the Norwegian city of Bergen. Eleven of them on board were Norwegian; one was British and another one Italian.  A major rescue operation was launched but ended within hours of the crash, BBC reports on