DHAKA: Cradled in her mother’s arms, Britain’s new sleeping princess was welcomed into the outside world Saturday with joyous cheers, a forest of camera phones and a sea of flags.It was both a traditional and very 21st-century moment as Prince William and his wife Kate emerged from

DHAKA: More than 3,400 migrants were rescued at sea Saturday, mainly off Libya, as Europe seeks ways to deal with the flood of people trying to reach its shores following a series of deadly shipwrecks.A total of 3,427 people were picked up during the operation coordinated by the Italian

DHAKA: Several hundred Yazidi captives have been killed in Iraq by Islamic State (IS) militants west of Mosul.Yazidi and Iraqi officials say, reports the BBC.A statement from the Yazidi Progress Party said 300 captives were killed on Friday in the Tal Afar district near the city.Iraqi

DHAKA: The United Nations has urged Nepal to relax customs controls which it says are holding up deliveries of aid to survivors of last week's earthquake.UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said Nepal had a duty to provide faster customs clearance for relief supplies.Many people are yet to

DHAKA: Nigeria troops have freed some 700 women and children from Boko Haram’s Sambisa forest stronghold over the past week, but uncertainty remained on Saturday over the fate of 219 girls seized from their school in Chibok last year in a kidnapping that sparked global outrage.In the

DHAKA: The remains of 26 migrants thought to be from Myanmar or Bangladesh have been exhumed from a mass grave after Thai police ended their search Saturday, as details emerged of the maltreatment endured at the remote people smugglers’ camp.Thai forensic teams dug out badly decayed

DHAKA: Key infrastructure in war-torn Yemen, including water supplies, health services and telecommunications, are on the verge of breaking down due to a major fuel shortage.A United Nations official said Saturday, reports The Straits Times.‘The services still available in the country

DHAKA: The Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to a girl, Kensington Palace has announced.The baby, who is fourth in line to the throne, was ‘safely delivered’ at 08:34 BST, the palace said in a statement, reports the BBC.The Duke of Cambridge was present for the birth of the baby,

DHAKA: Prince William’s wife Kate was admitted to hospital on Saturday in the early stages of labor with the couple’s eagerly-awaited second child.Kensington Palace said, reports The Straits Times.‘The Duchess of Cambridge was admitted at 6.00 hours to St Mary’s Hospital,

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi survived in a mass grave that have been discovered in southern Thailand and was being treated at a hospital in nearby Padang Besar.The hospital confirmed the Bangladeshi man had survived and was in a stable condition.Earlier on Friday, about 30 graves, believed to

DHAKA: Nepal on Saturday ruled out the possibility of finding more survivors buried in the rubble from a massive earthquake that killed more than 6,700 people and devastated vast swathes of one of Asia’s poorest countries.One week on from Nepal’s deadliest quake in over 80 years,

DHAKA: An earthquake with magnitude 5.0 occurred near Pokhara, 93 kilometres North West of Kathmandu, capital city of Nepal on Saturday, said the United States Geological Survey.The tremor was 10-kilometer deep that felt at 11:35:46am Bangladesh time, USGS added.The 7.8-magnitude quake

DHAKA: Populations of some of the world's largest wild animals are dwindling, raising the threat of an "empty landscape", say scientists.About 60% of giant herbivores - plant-eaters - including rhinos, elephants and gorillas, are at risk of extinction, according to research.Analysis of 74

DHAKA: Officials are struggling to find 1,000 EU citizens who are unaccounted for in Nepal, six days after an earthquake that killed more than 6,000 people.An EU official said most are thought to have been trekking in the Everest or remote Langtang regions. Many are hoped to be alive but

DHAKA: A Mexican army helicopter has been shot at in the western state of Jalisco, killing three soldiers and injuring 12 others.The country's defence minister said the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing after it came under fire from members of a drug cartel.A government

DHAKA: Five car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Thursday evening, killing at least 17 people, in attacks that have become more frequent in the Iraqi capital since a decade-old night time curfew was lifted earlier this year.The deadliest of the blasts, which appeared to be coordinated,

DHAKA: Defense officials have said that US Navy ships will accompany US-flagged commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, to make sure they are not interfered with by Iran.Iranian patrol boats surrounded a US cargo ship in the strait on Friday, reports the BBC.Earlier this week,

DHAKA: Nigerian troops have rescued about 160 more hostages from Boko Haram’s Sambisa Forest stronghold in northeast Nigeria.The country’s army told media on Thursday, reports the Times of India.“We are still trying to compute the actual number of those rescued. But tentatively

DHAKA: Two people have been rescued from the rubble of buildings in Kathmandu, five days after an earthquake that killed at least 5,500 in Nepal.A 15-year-old boy told the BBC he survived by drinking water from wet clothes and eating clarified butter, reports the BBC.Elsewhere, a woman

DHAKA: Police in southern Germany have thwarted a planned Islamist attack after detaining a married couple with suspected links to Salafist militants.The interior minister of the state of Hesse said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.‘Investigations by the police indicate that we