DHAKA: A massive blizzard bringing more than 2ft (61cm) of snow and punishing winds is advancing up the US East Coast.More than 50 million people across more than a dozen states have been warned to stay at home as it moves north, reports the BBC.The nation's capital, Washington, could lie

DHAKA: Four people were shot dead Friday at a school and a second location in an aboriginal community in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, police said.Royal Canadian Mounted Police said at a news conference Friday night that four people were dead and others were critically wounded at

DHAKA: A total of 42 migrants are reported to have drowned overnight in two separate shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea near Greece.One boat went down off the coast of the small Greek islet of Kalolimnos, killing 34 people, including 11 children. Another eight people died after a boat sank off

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti has ruled that chess is forbidden in Islam, saying it encourages gambling and is a waste of time.Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh was answering a question on a television show in which he issues fatwas in response to viewers’ queries on everyday religious

DHAKA: At least 21 people including eight children died after their boats sank off the Greek islands of Farmakonisi and Kalolimnos early today, with dozens of other migrants reported missing, the coastguard said.They said 48 survivors managed to reach the shore of Farmakonisi in the

DHAKA: France will seek to keep its state of emergency until a "total and global war" against so-called Islamic State (IS) is over.When asked about duration of the state of emergency, Prime Minister Manuel Valls has told the BBC, "As long as the threat is there, we must use all the

DHAKA: Islamist militants allegedly have attacked popular beachfront restaurants in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing 20 people, the security ministry says.Two car bombs exploded about an hour apart early on Thursday evening. In between, gunmen approached from the beach, firing on

DHAKA: Japan on Friday lifted sanctions on Iran, falling in line with major world powers after the United Nations atomic energy agency confirmed last weekend that Tehran had fully taken steps to curb its disputed nuclear programme.Iran emerged from years of economic isolation when the

DHAKA: A man accused by a public inquiry of being one of the killers of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has branded the report's conclusions "nonsense".Andrei Lugovoi said the inquiry presented "invention" and "supposition" and its chairman had "gone mad", reports the BBC.The inquiry

DHAKA: Archaeologists say they have unearthed the earliest evidence of human warfare to be scientifically dated, at a site in northern Kenya.The 10,000-year-old remains of 27 people found at a remote site west of Lake Turkana show that they met violent deaths.They were left to die there

DHAKA: Vigils have been held in Peshawar and elsewhere in Pakistan for at least 21 people killed in a university attack.Four suspected attackers also died in Wednesday’s assault on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda.Military spokesman Lt Gen Asim Bajwa said that major breakthroughs had

DHAKA: A court in India’s Kerala state has found a millionaire guilty of murdering his security guard after deliberately ramming his car into the man.Mohammed Nisham drove his Hummer into his guard Chandrabose, pinning him against the wall, before attacking him with a metal rod last

DHAKA: Satellite images confirm that the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been destroyed by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).St Elijah’s stood on a hill near the northern city of Mosul for 1,400 years.But analysts said the images, obtained by the Associated Press, suggested

DHAKA: At least 21 people have been killed, including students and a professor, as gunmen attacked a university in northwest Pakistan.A provincial minister says, reports Al Jazeera.The assault began on Wednesday morning at the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, about 140km from the

DHAKA: Pakistan on Tuesday conducted a successful flight test of the indigenously developed Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) – Ra’ad.The military’s media wing said in a statement, Dawn publishes this report on Wednesday.The flight test of the cruise missile, which is also known as

DHAKA: Donald Trump’s Republican presidential bid has received the backing of Sarah Palin, the populist ex-governor of Alaska who was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008.‘Are you ready to stump for Trump?’ Palin asked cheering supporters at a campaign rally in Iowa,

DHAKA: Gunmen have attacked a university in Charsadda in northwest Pakistan, with reports a gun battle is still under way.The attackers tried to storm their way into Bacha Khan university, injuring at least three people, reports said, according to the BBC.However, a Pakistan Edhi

DHAKA: The Islamic State group's propaganda magazine has confirmed the British militant known as Jihadi John died in a drone strike in November.The group published an obituary for the jihadist, whose real name was Mohammed Emwazi, in its online magazine Dabiq, reports the BBC.In November,

DHAKA: Libya’s Presidential Council has announced a new government of national accord aimed at uniting the country’s warring factions under a UN-backed plan.The Tunis-based council had pushed back the deadline for naming the government by 48 hours, amid reports of disputes over the

DHAKA: The world’s oldest man Yasutaro Koide has died at the age of 112 in the Japanese city of Nagoya.Local officials say, reports the BBC.Yasutaro Koide, who was born on 13 March 1903, was officially named the oldest man by Guinness World Records in August this year.At the time he was