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

DHAKA: A court in Pakistan Thursday sentenced 10 men to life imprisonment for attempting to kill Nobel-prize winning teenage activist Malala Yousafzai in 2012, officials said, though the chief suspect remains at large.Pakistani Taleban militants boarded the teenager’s school bus and

DHAKA: With its sewage system badly damaged, carcasses rotting in the rubble and thousands of people sleeping rough, experts say Nepal faces a race against time to ensure a devastating earthquake does not trigger a public health disaster.More than 5,500 people were killed in Saturday’s

DHAKA: Climbing will resume on Mount Everest by next week despite an earthquake-triggered avalanche that left 18 people dead on the world’s highest peak.A Nepalese government official said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.‘The ladders will be repaired in the next two to three

DHAKA: Frustration is growing in parts of rural Nepal over the pace of relief efforts, with some badly-affected villages yet to receive any assistance.Survivors in some areas told the BBC that they were angry that aid neither food nor medicine has reached them.The UN has appealed for

DHAKA: The UN has launched a $415m (£270m) appeal for those affected by Nepal's earthquake, as frustration mounts at the pace of relief efforts, reports BBC.The UN said it wanted to support government efforts to provide emergency relief over the next three months.Saturday's 7.8-magnitude