DHAKA: North Korean families plead for defectors, who were abducted in April, to return home. Twelve young North Korean women who worked at the restaurant and a male restaurant manager arrived in the South Korean capital. For Seoul, it was a propaganda bonanza; for Pyongyang, a huge

DHAKA: The US is to activate a land-based missile defense station in Romania, which will form part of a larger and controversial European shield. Senior US and Nato officials are expected at the ceremony in Deveselu, southern Romania, reports the BBC. The US says the Aegis system is

DHAKA: At least 66 were killed and some 11 are still unaccounted after a heavy rain fall in China's eastern, southern and southwestern areas. Over 4.66 million people had been affected, with 95,000 people relocated, CHINADAILY reports, Thursday (May 12). Meanwhile, 68,000 people

DHAKA: Nasa’s Kepler telescope has discovered more than 100 Earth-sized planets orbiting alien stars. It has also detected nine small planets within so-called habitable zones, where conditions are favorable for liquid water - and potentially life, reports the BBC. The finds are

DHAKA: Five men arrested in Australia supposedly intended to cross the ocean in a small fishing boat and join the so-called Islamic State (IS) group. Police arrested the men as they were towing the boat through the northern part of Queensland State, BBC reports on Wednesday (May 11).

DHAKA: Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won in the West Virginia primary on Tuesday (local time). The win will force Hillary Clinton to continue a two-front battle that includes locking down the Democratic nomination and facing Donald Trump in the general election, reports the NY Times.

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