DHAKA: US President Barack Obama says prospects for a two-state solution in the Middle East are "dim" after the Israeli prime minister vowed to oppose a Palestinian state.Netanyahu's statements angered the White House, even though he has since tried to soften his remark, reports

DHAKA: A German jetliner en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany, plunged from the sky on Tuesday and slammed into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.The Airbus A320 - flight 4U 9525 - went down between Digne and Barcelonnette. There are no survivors, reports

DHAKA: The Supreme Court of India has scrapped a contentious law that was seen as a major infringement of the freedom of speech online because it allowed the arrest of a person for posting "offensive" content. Section 66(A) of the Information Technology Act, "is unconstitutional and we

DHAKA: An Airbus A320 airliner has crashed in the French Alps between Barcelonnette and Digne.French aviation officials and police have said, reports the BBC.The jet belongs to the German low-cost airline Germanwings, a subsidiary of Lufthansa.The plane had reportedly been en route from

DHAKA: David Cameron has told the BBC he will not serve a third term as prime minister if the Conservatives remain in government after the general election.The PM said if re-elected he would serve the full five years of another Parliament and then leave Number 10.Cameron tipped home

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama will host Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe at the White House next month for talks expected to focus on their joint response to China’s rising power and efforts to finalize a major Asia-Pacific trade pact.Abe, who will spend eight days in the United

DHAKA: Gunmen in eastern Afghanistan attacked passing vehicles on a darkened highway during a midnight assault Tuesday, killing at least 13 people, authorities said.The attack happened in Wardak province's Sayad Abad district, where Taliban fighters hold much territory and launch frequent

DHAKA: The Yemeni foreign minister has called for Gulf Arab states to intervene to prevent the advance of Shia Houthi rebels into the south of the country. The Houthis ousted President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi last month, who fled to the southern port city of Aden where he established a

DHAKA: At least 36 people were killed and 70 others injured after a bus drifted into the opposite lane in Peru.The bus, operated by the Murga Serrano line, was hit by three vehicles coming in the opposite direction - two buses and a truck.The vehicle was carrying a delegation from the

DHAKA: Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe met with Indonesian president Joko Widodo Monday to forge tighter economic and defense ties, as Tokyo works to court friends in the face of a rising China.The two nations agreed to tighter cooperation on coastal security, regular talks between

DHAKA: Pakistan held its first Republic Day parade in seven years on Monday, full of flag-waving pomp and aerial military expertise, a symbolic show of strength in the war against the Taliban months after a militant attack on a school killed 132 children.The Pakistan Day parade, complete

DHAKA: In a fresh rebuke to Benjamin Netanyahu, US president Barack Obama said the Israeli leader’s pre-election disavowal of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict makes it ‘hard to find a path’ toward serious negotiations to resolve the issue.In an interview with

DHAKA: A bus has fallen into a ravine in central Venezuela killing at least 11 people.Thirty-six others were injured in the accident in Aragua state, south-west of the capital Caracas.The driver lost control and the vehicle plunged into a lake, eyewitnesses say, the BBC reports on

DHAKA: Sri Lanka’s new government on Sunday conferred the country’s highest military rank of field marshal to former army Chief Sarath Fonseka.Sarath was jailed on alleged treason charges by the previous regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa, for ‘achieving the victory over

DHAKA: The timeline for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan is expected to be high on the agenda during Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s first visit to Washington this week.Ghani, who arrived in the US on Sunday, is due to meet US President Barack Obama on Tuesday and will also

DHAKA: A 12-year-old girl allegedly attempted to poison her mother with bleach because her iPhone was confiscated has been detained by police.The girl from Boulder, Colorado, who has not been named, tried to kill her mother on two separate occasions, police said.Initially, the mother

DHAKA: Syrian rebels have captured several government airmen after their helicopter crashed in a rebel-held area of the country’s northwest.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday that four crew members had been taken prisoner near Jabal al-Zawiya, about

DHAKA: Lee Kuan Yew, the statesman who transformed Singapore from a small port city into a wealthy global hub, has died at the age of 91.The city-state's prime minister for 31 years, he was widely respected as the architect of Singapore's prosperity, reports BBC.But he was criticised for

DHAKA: A Chinese envoy will hold talks in India from Sunday aimed at fixing a dispute about the Himalayan border that divides Asia’s largest nations, part of a push to make progress on the festering row before Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits China.China's special representative Yang

DHAKA: A church in Mumbai was attacked by masked men Saturday, local media reported, the latest in a series of attacks on churches in Hindu-majority India.Closed-circuit camera footage captured three masked men hurling stones at a church early Saturday in the state capital of Mumbai,