DHAKA: Former US President George HW Bush has been admitted to hospital after breaking a bone in his neck in a fall at his home in Maine.His spokesman said he was in a stable condition and his hospital stay was expected to be brief, reports BBC.Bush, who has Parkinson's disease and cannot

DHAKA: An Indian spy drone has been shot down by Pakistani military forces along the Line of Control (LoC) in Bhimber, Azad Kasmir.Pakistan Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said, reports dawn.com.According to the military, the drone had violated Pakistani airspace after

DHAKA: The leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has backed peace talks with the Afghan government, in a statement released to the media.A message, marking the festival of Eid al-Fitr, made no direct reference to the talks but said Islam did not bar ‘peaceful

DHAKA: Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived back in Tehran on Wednesday a day after reaching a nuclear deal with six world powers in Vienna.‘Today the negotiations have ended with the Security Council approving a resolution that for the first time in its history will

DHAKA: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s anticipated efforts to lobby Congress to derail the Iranian nuclear agreement will fail.US President Barack Obama told New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman on Tuesday, The Jerusalem Post publishes this report on Wednesday.The

DHAKA: Young Iranian men and women danced in streets in parts of Teheran and motorists honked car horns to cheer an historic nuclear accord with world powers they hope will end years of economic sanctions and decades of international isolation.Millions of Iranians had followed the talks

DHAKA: Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon is likely to be hanged on July 30 if his petition for mercy is rejected by the Indian Supreme Court. This will be the first execution related to the 1993 serial blasts, in which over 250 people were killed.Sources say an anti-terror court in Mumbai

DHAKA: New Horizon's photos replace the only tiny pixelated images of Pluto we have had prior to now, and reveal specifics of Pluto previously only subject to speculation.On schedule, at 8:52:37 p.m. Eastern time, a message from the spacecraft arrived at Mission Control here at the Johns

DHAKA: UK counter-terrorism chiefs say 43 UK women and girls are believed to have traveled to Syria in the past year.The Metropolitan Police figures are the first official count of British women thought to be in the warzone.Security officials believe up to 700 people have gone to Syria to

DHAKA: A historic deal with Iran will close off any possibility the country can develop nuclear weapons, halting a potential arms race in the Middle East.United States President Barack Obama said in a speech aired ‘live’ on Iranian TV, reports The Straits Times.The accord, which will

DHAKA: Iran’s leadership and state-run media have embraced news of an historic nuclear agreement with world powers as a ‘good’ deal for the Islamic Republic.The deal, according to local press, respects ‘red lines’ in the negotiations set out by the country’s supreme leader,

DHAKA: The Iran nuclear accord hammered out in Vienna between the world powers and Tehran is a ‘historic mistake’ for the world.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.Netanyahu’s comments came at the start of a meeting with visiting Dutch Foreign

DHAKA: A stampede on the banks of a holy river killed at least 27 pilgrims Tuesday in southern India, signalling a tragic beginning to a religious festival season.Officials said, reports Yahoo.com.The stampede broke out at around 8:00am in Rajahmundry, on the border of the twin states of

DHAKA: A deal on limiting Iran's nuclear program in return for sanctions relief has been reached at talks in Vienna.Diplomats say, reports the BBC.A media cited an unnamed Western diplomat as saying final obstacles had been cleared.The EU announced a ‘final plenary’ meeting at 08:30

DHAKA: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is facing a tough battle to win support from coalition partners for the third bailout offered by eurozone leaders.Four pieces of legislation must be passed by the end of Wednesday including pension and VAT reforms, reports BBC.But Defence

DHAKA: Eurozone leaders have agreed to offer Greece a third bailout, after marathon talks in Brussels.Amid one of the worst crises in the EU’s history, the head of the European Commission said the risk of Greece leaving the eurozone had been averted.Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras

DHAKA: A section of a Russian military barracks has collapsed, killing 23 soldiers near the Siberian city of Omsk.Officials say, reports the BBC.A further 19 servicemen have been pulled alive from the rubble. Five others are missing.There were more than 300 soldiers in the training

DHAKA: Iran and six world powers are close to signing a historic nuclear deal that will bring sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on Tehran’s atomic program.Officials say, Al Jazeera publishes this report on Monday.After more than two weeks of negotiations in Vienna, Iranian and

DHAKA: Fifteen people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in China when an illegal fireworks warehouse exploded in the northern Hebei province, state media reports.The blast on Sunday morning (local time) shattered windows up to one kilometre away from the factory in Dongwang

DHAKA: Eurozone leaders have talked through the night in Brussels in a bid to agree terms for a new bailout for Greece.Reports say a draft compromise has been put to the emergency summit but no details have emerged so far.Without a new bailout, Greece's banks face collapse and the country