DHAKA: An unidentified gunman killed four family members then fatally shot himself after a hourslong standoff with police in rural Washington state in US on Friday, authorities said.The only survivor was a 12-year-old girl, who managed to get away from the shooter, Mason County Chief

DHAKA: At least 12 people were killed Friday as twin blasts and gunfire rocked a hotel and neighbouring park in central Mogadishu, police said, in an attack claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants.Two loud explosions went off near the popular SYL hotel and neighbouring Peace

DHAKA: A landmark temporary truce has come into effect in Syria.If the "cessation of hostilities" holds it would be the first time a pause in Syria's five-year civil war has been negotiated by world powers, reports the BBC.In the run-up to the midnight (22:00 GMT) deadline, US President

DHAKA: A small plane carrying 11 people crashed Friday in mountainous western Nepal, in the country's second deadly plane accident this week, officials said.Government official Padamlal Lamichane said at least one person had died according to initial reports.He said the plane belonging to

DHAKA: The US, backed by China, has submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council aimed at imposing tougher sanctions on North Korea.It comes in response to North Korea's recent nuclear test and missile launch, reports the BBC.The measures would for the first time require UN

DHAKA:  India is home to the highest number of people who have died while taking photos of themselves (selfie), with 19 of the world's 49 recorded selfie-linked deaths since 2014.According to San Francisco-based data service provider Priceonomics,  It may in part be due to India's sheer

DHAKA: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that the global economy is ‘highly vulnerable’ and urged the United States and other large nations to prepare contingency plans that could be rolled out quickly.The report was prepared for senior officials of the G20, the world’s

DHAKA: All 23 people, including three crewmembers and two children, who were on board the ill-fated Tara Twin-Otter plane, were killed in the crash in Rupse of Myagdi district in western Nepal on Wednesday.Shankar Koirala, Western Regional Administrator quoting the Civil Aviation

DHAKA: Bolivians have narrowly rejected changing the constitution so President Evo Morales can run for a fourth term.About 51.5% voted against the move with almost all the votes counted, the electoral authority said, reports the BBC.Morales, Bolivia’s first head of state of indigenous

DHAKA: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has easily won the US state of Nevada, cementing his lead in the race for party nomination.The billionaire now has three consecutive wins, after victories in New Hampshire and South Carolina.Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who have

DHAKA: Officials say that a small plane on its way to Jomson with 21 people on board has gone missing in the mountains of Nepal.The plane had taken off from Pokhara in Nepal, reports the India Today.Official Yogendra Kuwar said the plane was on an 18-minute flight Wednesday, but lost

DHAKA: The fatalities were confirmed on Wednesday by Fiji's National Disaster Management Minister Inia Seruiratu, the government-owned Fiji Broadcasting Corp reported.The toll has been steadily rising since Monday, two days after category five Tropical Cyclone Winston slammed into the

DHAKA: The US and China say they have made progress on a draft UN resolution to harden sanctions on North Korea, after its rocket launch and nuclear test.China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US Secretary of State John Kerry said a draft could soon be ready for approval, reports the

DHAKA: Sea levels are rising several times faster than they have in the past 2,800 years and are accelerating because of man-made global warming, according to new studies.An international team of scientists dug into two dozen locations across the globe to chart gently rising and falling

DHAKA: The number of people killed in the cyclone that hit Fiji at the weekend has risen to 29, with officials warning the clear-up could take months.About 8,500 people are still sheltering in evacuation centres, reports the BBC.Cyclone Winston has flattened many buildings in parts of the

DHAKA: Iranian state media outlets have reissued a bounty worth hundreds-of-thousands of dollars for the head of a famous author decried as a blasphemer in the Islamic Republic.CNSNews.com news site reported Monday, says The Jerusalem Post.Salman Rushdie, author of the controversial book

DHAKA: More than 10 million people in India's capital are without water despite the army regaining control of its key water source after protests, officials say.Keshav Chandra, head of Delhi’s water board, told the BBC it would take ‘three to four days’ before normal supplies

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has put on trial 32 people, almost all of them members of the kingdom’s Shia minority, accused of spying for Iran.Local media report, says the BBC.The defendants face charges including treason, establishing a spy ring with Iranian intelligence and passing on

DHAKA: Five Indian students facing charges of sedition after organizing a protest at Delhi’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), have resurfaced.The protest on 9 February was over the 2013 hanging of Kashmiri man Mohammed Afzal Guru and allegedly saw the chanting of

DHAKA: Bomb blasts in the Syrian cities of Homs and Damascus have left at least 140 people dead, monitors and state media say.At least four blasts struck the southern Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab, killing at least 83 people, state media said.Earlier in Homs, 57 people, mainly