DHAKA: Secretary of State John F. Kerry suffered a leg injury Sunday morning in an accident while bicycling and was transported by medical helicopter to a Geneva hospital, reports the Washington Post.Spokesman John Kirby said that Kerry, 71, did not lose consciousness, and that he was

DHAKA: Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg has begun his bid to cross the Pacific, from China to Hawaii, in the zero-fuel Solar Impulse aeroplane.The experimental aircraft, which has a wingspan bigger than a jumbo but weighs little more than a large car, left Nanjing at 02:39 (18:39 GMT).It is

DHAKA: 202 more deaths have been reported in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Odisha of India since Saturday, taking the number of people killed from heat wave in the country to over 2,200.In Andhra Pradesh, 146 more deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, while 52 more people died in

DHAKA: Former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the son of US Vice-President Joe Biden, has died of brain cancer.The 46-year-old was taken to hospital earlier this month at the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre, near Washington, reports BBC.Beau Biden was seen as a rising star of US

The European Union responded angrily to Russia's entry ban against 89 European politicians, officials and military leaders, reports BBC.Those banned are believed to include general secretary of the EU council Uwe Corsepius, and former British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg.Russia shared

DHAKA: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck in the ocean off Japan's remote Bonin Islands at 5:23 bangladesh Time on Saturday, USGS reports.There have been no immediate reports of casualties or damage, nor any tsunami alert.The populated area closest to the quake's epicenter is the Japanese

DHAKA: Italy helped rescue a total of more than 3,300 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean on Friday, the country's coastguard has said.In one operation, 17 bodies were found on three boats. Another 217 people who were on board were rescued.The coastguard said distress calls were

DHAKA: Gunmen in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province have attacked two buses, killing at least 19 passengers, officials have said.The province's Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti said unidentified militants boarded the vehicles travelling to Karachi on Friday evening, reports BBC.Passengers

DHAKA: Myanmar navy has seized a boat packed with 727 people off the country's southern coast, the government says, about a week after it found a similar boat it said carried around 200 Bangladeshi migrants.The nationality of the people on the boat was unclear, reports abc.net.au quoting

DHAKA: Tremors continued to rock Nepal following last month’s devastating earthquake as three aftershocks of over 4-magnitude were felt on Friday in central and northern parts of the country.A 4 magnitude tremor was recorded at 8.30 am with its epicenter located in Gorkha district,

DHAKA: The US Geological Survey says there has been a 6.8 magnitude off the southwest coast of Alaska on Friday. The epicenter is 110km south-southeast of Ugashik with the center estimated at 33km deep, reports the rt.com.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said that no tsunami was

DHAKA: Japanese authorities have told the residents of remote southern island Kuchinoerabu to evacuate after a violent eruption rocked the Mount Shindake volcano, reports the Voice of America.The Japan Metrological Agency said that no injuries were reported after the volcano erupted about

DHAKA: Thailand has 600 new "boat people" in temporary holding areas, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister General Tanasak Patimapragorn said on Friday.There were still more migrants out at sea, Tanasak said, talking to reporters at a press conference during a regional meeting on

DHAKA: Myanmar has refused to accept responsibility for South-east Asia's migration crisis, telling a 17-nation meeting in Bangkok that "finger-pointing will not serve any purpose".The country, facing a barrage of criticism for its decades-long persecution of Rohingyas, told other nations

DHAKA: The soaring heat has taken 414 more lives since Thursday in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana alone, causing the death toll to rise above 1,700 in the two southern states of India.The Met office has said that the two states are unlikely to get relief from the heat for the next two

DHAKA: A regional conference is under way in the Thai capital Bangkok to discuss possible solutions to the South East Asia migrant crisis, reports BBC.The talks include member states from the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) as well as representatives from the US and the

DHAKA: The Dalai Lama has urged fellow Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, a main opposition leader in Myanmar, to do more to help protect the persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority in her country amid a worsening migration crisis.Despite thousands of Rohingya fleeing on harrowing boat

DHAKA: Iraq has exhumed the remains of 470 people believed to have been executed by militants near Tikrit last year in what is known as the Speicher massacre.Iraq’s Health minister Adila Hammoud said this on Thursday, reports the Strait Times.“We have exhumed the bodies of 470

DHAKA: Malaysia said on Thursday that it believes 139 people are buried in graves at remote detention camps used by people-smugglers on the Thai border which were discovered on the weekend.Deputy home affairs minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said “Based on the size of the graves, and

DHAKA: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have shot dead at least 20 men in the ruins of Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra.Head of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdel Rahman has said this accusing them of fighting for the government, reports the