DHAKA: Seventeen people have died in a fire at a building housing elderly people in a village near Ukraine's capital Kiev. The fire broke out in the early hours of Sunday in a two-storey building housing some 35 people, reports the BBC. “Emergency services units saved 18

DHAKA: French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are to mark the 100th anniversary of the battle of Verdun, the longest battle throughout World War One. Hundreds of thousands of French and German soldiers died during 10 months of fighting in north-eastern

DHAKA: Zoo officials have shot dead a gorilla after a four-year-old boy fell into its enclosed space in the US city of Cincinnati. The boy scrambled though a barrier and fell into a moat, where he was grabbed and dragged by the gorilla, BBC reports on Sunday (May 29). The zoo said

DHAKA: A Chinese firm has apologized over an advert for detergent which has annoyed a tempest of allegations of racism. The manufacturer of Qiaobi said it strongly opposed and damned racial discrimination, and was sorry the advert had caused controversy, BBC reports on Sunday (May 29).

DHAKA: The German airline, Lufthansa, has pronounced that it will suspend flights to Venezuela from 18 June due to economic difficulties in the country. The company also said currency controls in Venezuela made it impossible for airlines to convert their earnings into dollars and send

DHAKA: Pakistani authorities have banned all broadcast of advertisements for contraceptives. The regulator, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), said there had been public complaints that they provoked curiosity in ‘innocent children’, BBC reports on Saturday

DHAKA: Iraqi government forces have made gains in their revolting to drive Islamic State (IS) militants from Falluja one the country's two major cities in IS hands. The nearby town of Karma, the first line of IS defence, is now in the army's hands, BBC reports on Sunday (May

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia and Iran have failed to reach a deal on arrangements for Iranians to attend this year’s Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, with officials from both countries trading accusations on who was to blame for the impasse. Saudi officials accused their Iranian counterparts of

DHAKA: Former Argentine junta leader Reynaldo Bignone has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes committed under Operation Condor a plot between South America's dictators. Bignone and 14 other military officers were found guilty by a court in Argentina after a three-year

DHAKA: Italian navy recovered 45 bodies, as a migrant boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday (May 27). According to the local newspaper, the Italian vessel has already rescued 130 people from the boat and continued its rescue mission, SPUTNIK reports on Saturday (May 28).

DHAKA: A weeklong nationwide strike and mass protests by workers of oil refineries, nuclear power plants and some public transportation services have crippled parts of the country, with hundreds of gas stations running dry and vehicles lining up for hours to fill their tanks. Riot

DHAKA: Barack Obama has arrived in Hiroshima to become the first serving US president to visit the Japanese city since the 1945 nuclear bombing. Obama flew into the Iwakuni US base nearby, after leaving the G7 summit, BBC reports on Friday (May 27). He said that his visit was ‘a

DHAKA: Experts following the evaporation of MH370 said that it is likely that a new piece of debris found on a Mozambique beach came from the missing plane. A reader contacted the BBC on Thursday to say he recently found the fragment on the Macaneta peninsula, BBC reports on Friday

DHAKA: More than 300 passengers and crew were abandoned from a Korean Air plane in Tokyo, Japan after a fire broke out in its left engine. Flight 2708 was preparing to take off from Haneda airport en way to Seoul on Friday (May 27) morning, and there were 302 passengers and 17 crew

DHAKA: The US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has reached the number of delegates needed to secure the party’s presidential nomination. In North Dakota on Thursday, he thanked 15 unbound delegates from the state who he said “got us right over the top”, reports the

DHAKA: At least 30 migrants are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast while some 77 were rescued by EU naval units from the sea. Ships from an EU task force and Italy’s coast guard raced to the scene 35 nautical miles (65km) off the coast as

DHAKA: Up to 30 migrants are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast while some 77 were rescued by EU naval units from the sea. Ships from an EU task force and Italy’s coast guard raced to the scene 35 nautical miles off the coast as survivors

DHAKA: One person has been killed and three others wounded in a shooting at a music venue in New York. Police said the shooting happened at Irving Plaza, near Union Square, Manhattan, where hip-hop artist TI was due to perform on Wednesday evening. No-one has been arrested and the

DHAKA: Militant outfit Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria is trying to creep into the trade to get their people to Europe from the chaotic and near-failed state of Libya. They are trying to do such thing as the route from Turkey to Greece becomes more heavily policed, CNN reports on

DHAKA: Indonesia has hard-bitten its punishments for child rapists to include the death penalty and chemical castration. It follows outrage over several recent violent crimes, including the gang-rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl, BBC reports on Thursday (May 26). President Joko