DHAKA: The United Nations representative in Yemen has said that the Saudi-led coalition is bombing ‘effectively, trapped civilians’.Civilians in the northern city of Saada are struggling to flee Saudi-led coalition air strikes targeting Houthi rebels, reports and aid workers say,

DHAKA: Several people have been killed in a shooting in the Swiss town of Wuerenlingen, north-west of Zurich, Switzerland police say.Officers came to the scene after gunfire was heard at a residential building overnight, report bbc.com.They found bodies lying both inside and outside the

DHAKA: Russia president Vladimir Putin on Saturday led a huge commemorative WWII march through Red Square as Russia celebrated 70 years since Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.Clutching a portrait of his father Vladimir, who fought in the war, Putin unexpectedly joined a massive column of

DHAKA: Fifty inmates and 12 Iraqi policemen were killed late on Friday as dozens of inmates escaped from a prison holding 300 people charged with acts of terrorism.A security official and a police source said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.It was not clear if any high-profile

DHAKA: Fifty inmates and 12 Iraqi policemen were killed late on Friday as dozens of inmates escaped from a prison holding 300 people charged with acts of terrorism.A security official and a police source said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.It was not clear if any high-profile

DHAKA: Indian Maoist rebels took 250 villagers hostage in restive Chhattisgarh just hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi toured the central state on Saturday.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.Guerillas abducted the villagers late Friday in Sukma district, 80 kilometers away

DHAKA: Nearly 200 migrants have been detained in a single southern Thai province ever since a network of jungle prison camps run by people smugglers was uncovered there.Police said Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Spurred by Thai junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha’s calls to end the grim

DHAKA: Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to three years in jail on corruption charges after a retrial in Cairo.His sons were given four years each in the same case which centers on the embezzlement of $14m earmarked for renovation of presidential palaces.The

DHAKA: Russia readied for a grandiose Red Square military parade on Saturday to mark 70 years since the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, but Western leaders were going to stay away due to the Ukraine crisis.New tanks, mammoth nuclear missile systems and some 16,000 troops were

DHAKA: Britain’s Saturday newspapers said Prime Minister David Cameron’s election win was a remarkable triumph of quiet conservatism, but leaves him facing battles to keep Scotland in the United Kingdom and Britain in the European Union.The Conservative centre-right prime minister’s

DHAKA: Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage have all resigned following the disastrous performance of their respective parties in the UK's General Election overnight.Miliband was the final leader to stand down, announcing his resignation just after midday today, and saying he accepted

DHAKA: A total of 111 suspected Rohingya migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh were rescued from jungle of Thailand's southern Songkhla province.On Friday, Thailand police said the 111 migrants had been left alone in the jungle after suspected human traffickers who had brought them into

DHAKA: David Cameron has returned to Downing Street with the Tories having defied polls and won the UK general election-2015.The Conservatives made gains in England and Wales and are forecast by the BBC to secure 331 seats in the Commons, giving them a slender majority.Labour leader Ed

DHAKA: A devastated Ed Miliband has resigned from the Labour party, saying he is truly sorry for the scale of the party’s crushing defeat.In an emotional speech, Miliband said it was time for someone else to take over as leader but called on the party to keep fighting, rather than give

THAMEL, KATHMANDU: The nerve wrecking disastrous earthquake has brought down the Nepalese on the streets but the urge of livelihood has compelled them to forget the shock. Thamel, the tourist spot of Nepal is now awakening from shock wave after facing the destructive natural calamity.With

DHAKA: A devastated Ed Miliband is expected to resign on Friday after talking to staff at the party’s headquarters, admitting the scale of the crushing defeat had taken him and his staff by surprise.There had been some discussion that he would stay on as a caretaker leader – just as

DHAKA: The ambassadors of Norway and Philippines and four others were killed when an army helicopter crashed in Naltar area of Gilgit on Friday, according to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) of Pakistan.Wives of Malaysian and Indonesian ambassadors and two pilots are among the

DHAKA: David Cameron is on course to secure an astonishing electoral triumph as Tories fended off a Labour challenge in the key English marginals and early results suggested the Conservatives could even win enough seats to secure an overall majority.The result – devastating Labour and

DHAKA: The Conservatives are set to be the largest party in the Commons but just short of a majority, according to the general election exit poll.The survey taken at polling stations across the UK suggests the Tories will get 316 MPs to Labour’s 239 when all the results have been

DHAKA: A US air strike in Yemen last month killed the senior Al-Qaeda official who appeared in a video claiming the deadly January attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo.A monitor said Thursday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Friday.Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, who was killed in