DHAKA: Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has offered new concessions to the country’s creditors.A letter to creditors obtained by the Financial Times says Tsipras is prepared to accept most conditions that were on the table before talks collapsed and he called a referendum,

DHAKA: A record 137,000 people made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe in the first half of 2015, most of them fleeing war, conflict and persecution.The United Nations said on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.‘Europe is living through a maritime refugee crisis

DHAKA: The US and Cuba on Wednesday will announce the opening of embassies in each other’s capitals, a major step in re-establishing diplomatic ties severed in 1961.A senior US official has said, reports the BBC.Relations had been frozen since the early 1960s when the US broke links and

DHAKA: Indonesian officials say 141 bodies have been recovered after a military transport plane crashed in a residential area of Medan on Tuesday.The military says none of the 122 people on board the Hercules C-130 survived when it hit houses and a hotel before bursting into flames,

DHAKA: Greece has missed the deadline for a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), hours after eurozone ministers refused to extend its bailout.But the ministers say they will discuss a last-minute request from Greece for a new two-year bailout on Wednesday,

DHAKA: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday nominated a female judge to sit on the Supreme Court in an unprecedented move that has angered some Islamic conservatives.Anisa Rasouli, the head of the Afghan Women Judges Association and a former juvenile court judge, was the only female

DHAKA: At least 113 people have been killed after an Indonesian air force C-130 plane crashed in a residential neighborhood in the city of Medan on the northern island of Sumatra.According to military officials, the plane came down on Tuesday hitting empty residential buildings after

DHAKA: Thirty-eight bodies have been recovered from the crash site of an Indonesian military aircraft in the city of Medan.An Indonesian Red Cross official Zulkifli said, reports CNN.Local TV reported that the Hercules crashed into two houses and a car and burst into flames.Moreover,

DHAKA: An Indonesian air force transport plane crashed Tuesday shortly after take-off, exploding in a fireball in a city residential area and killing at least 20 people.Buildings near the crash zone were severely damaged and cars were reduced to flaming wrecks when the Hercules C-130 came

DHAKA: At least five people were killed Tuesday when an Indonesian military transport plane crashed into the city of Medan on Sumatra island and exploded in a ball of flames.Police said, reports The Straits Times.The C-130 Hercules plane crashed on Tuesday shortly after take-off,

DHAKA: Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has urged voters to reject creditors’ demands in a snap referendum on Greece’s debt crisis due on Sunday.Tsipras said a clear vote against austerity would help Greece negotiate a better settlement to the crisis, the BBC publishes this report on

DHAKA: Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has urged voters to reject creditors’ demands in a snap referendum on Greece’s debt crisis due on Sunday.Tsipras said a clear vote against austerity would help Greece negotiate a better settlement to the crisis, the BBC publishes this report on

DHAKA:  A washing machine stands in the middle of Maria Jimenez’s California yard, like a redundant relic of modern life. Nearby are several rented mobile toilets, no longer in use.For four months, she and her family have had no running water.“We are trying to live a normal life,”

DHAKA: Taliban militants in Afghanistan have killed at least 11 Afghan soldiers in an ambush in western Herat province.The convoy of pick-up trucks was attacked on Sunday evening in Karukh district of Herat, officials say, the BBC publishes this report on Monday.Weapons were stolen by the

DHAKA: Egypt’s public prosecutor, Hisham Barakat, has been killed in an apparent bomb attack on his car in Cairo.Barakat died of his wounds in hospital, a government spokesman told the BBC.Two bodyguards were also injured in the attack, which targeted the vehicle in the Cairo suburb of

DHAKA: Around 30 percent of China’s Ming-era Great Wall has disappeared over time as adverse natural conditions and reckless human activities ─ including stealing the bricks to build houses ─ erode the Unesco World Heritage site.China state media reported, says dawn.com.The Great

DHAKA: Two prisoners escaped from India’s most secure jail in New Delhi by digging a tunnel under a wall and scaling another in a daring dash for freedom.An official and media reports said Monday, reports The Straits Times.The pair escaped on the weekend from Tihar jail, Asia’s

DHAKA: When Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won power in January, he was hailed by many as the man to revolutionize not only his country’s politics, but also those of all Europe.Aged only 40, he is Greece’s youngest prime minister in almost two centuries. More importantly, he

DHAKA: The Dalai Lama made his first appearance at Glastonbury in United Kingdom on Sunday, spending an hour in the rain addressing festival-goers on how the world could be a happier place.The Tibetan spiritual leader called for a more ‘holistic education’ from kindergarten to

DHAKA: A solar-powered plane has started its second bid at a record-breaking flight across the Pacific Ocean.Solar Impulse took off from Nagoya Airfield in Japan at 18:03 GMT and is scheduled to land in Hawaii in approximately 120 hours, reports the BBC.The team has spent nearly two