DHAKA: Six people, including a pregnant woman, have been killed after a car veered off the road during a car rally in north-western Spain.Police said that 16 people had been injured, some critically, after the accident at the A Coruna car rally, reports BBC. Television footage showed the

DHAKA: Austria and Germany have taken in thousands of migrants who crossed the border after days stuck in Hungary.After being welcomed at the Austrian frontier by volunteers, many went directly to Vienna and on to Munich in southern Germany, reports BBC.Earlier this week there were

SDHAKA: audi Arabia has said it is satisfied with US assurances on its nuclear deal with Iran, following talks between US President Barack Obama and Saudi King Salman in Washington DC.At a press briefing at the Saudi Arabian embassy on Friday, Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir said

DHAKA: Gun battles in and around Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe have killed at least 10 people.The interior ministry said eight policemen were killed in gun attacks in the town of Vahdat just outside Dushanbe, and at a central interior ministry building, Al Jazeera publishes this report

DHAKA: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad is ready to hold snap parliamentary elections and allow a ‘healthy’ opposition to share power.The Syrian president ‘is in agreement with’ holding elections for parliament, as well as establishing

DHAKA: King Salman of Saudi Arabia has met US President Barack Obama in Washington, on his first trip to the United States since assuming the throne in January.The meeting comes amid a period of strained bilateral relations, reports BBC.The king reiterated the concern of Gulf States over

DHAKA: Twenty-two soldiers from the United Arab Emirates’ military have been killed while taking part in a Saudi-led military campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to the country’s state news agency WAM.Saudi Arabia and a coalition of other mostly Arab states have been

DHAKA: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that his country does not want to take in large numbers of Muslims, in defense of Hungary’s response to the surge in refugees trying to enter the country.‘I think we have a right to decide that we do not want a large number of

DHAKA: British Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to announce plans later to increase the number of refugees being allowed into the UK.No specific figure has been agreed, but Cameron has previously said the UK would continue to take in "thousands", reports BBC.The extra refugees are

DHAKA: A 51-year-old North Dakota mother who acted as a surrogate for her daughter gave birth to her own grandchild.After Sherri Dickson experienced the pain of watching her daughter, Mandy Stephens, lose a child she decided to step in when her daughter was considering options for another

DHAKA: Heart-rending pictures of a toddler’s lifeless body washed ashore on a Turkish beach sparked horror as the cost of Europe’s burgeoning refugee crisis hit home.The images of a child lying face down in the surf at one of Turkey’s main tourist resorts has once more put a human

DHAKA: There are just over three trillion trees on Earth, according to a new assessment.The figure is eight times as big as the previous best estimate, which counted perhaps 400 billion at mostIt has been produced by Thomas Crowther from Yale University, and colleagues, who combined a

DHAKA: Following is the full text of the speech given by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.All my countrymen and women,Your

DHAKA: At least thirteen people have drowned after a boat carrying around 70 Indonesians capsized in the Strait of Malacca, Malaysian maritime authorities said on Thursday.A member of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) told the Guardian the boat was found off the coast of

DHAKA: China will cut the number of its troops by 300,000, President Xi Jinping announced Thursday.It will be the country’s fourth cut of troops since the reform and opening-up in the 1980s, reports Xinhua.Xi revealed the information while delivering a speech at a gathering to

DHAKA: Five Chinese naval ships are currently positioned in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska.US officials confirm, reports the BBC.It is believed to be the first time Chinese military vessels have been seen operating in the area.Officials say they have been monitoring the ships'

DHAKA: Global plans to curb carbon dioxide are well below what's needed to keep temperatures from rising above 2 degrees according to a new analysis.It is the work of researchers from the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), a consortium of research institutions.They examined the commitments

DHAKA: Hungary's leader is to meet European leaders in Brussels for talks on the migrant crisis, with thousands still stranded at a Budapest railway station.Since Tuesday, migrants have been prevented from getting on trains to leave Hungary as EU states struggle to agree on how to deal

DHAKA: More than 13 million children are being denied an education due to conflicts in the Middle East, the UN has said, warning ‘the hopes of a generation’ would be dashed if they cannot return to classrooms.In a report on the impact of conflict on education in six countries and

DHAKA: Two Red Cross aid workers have been shot dead in northern Yemen by unknown assailants.The humanitarian organization said, reports Al Jazeera.A spokesperson for the International Committee for the Red Cross told Al Jazeera the workers, Yemeni nationals, were on their way from a