DHAKA: A fire at a Philippine rubber slipper factory killed 31 workers on Wednesday and dozens were missing and feared dead.Government and fire officials said, reports The Straits Times.Ariel Barayuga, head of bureau of fire protection, said investigators were trying to determine the

DHAKA: Japan on Wednesday began its first ever military trade fair, with a particular focus on maritime security at a time of rising regional tensions over territorial squabbles.The three-day fair, organized by a private British company with the backing of Japan’s defense and trade

DHAKA: A man once dubbed the world’s fattest has had between three and four stone (22 to 27kg) of skin removed.Paul Mason, 54, from Ipswich, used to weigh 70 stone (440kg) but has lost about 45 stone (285kg).He is currently in New York recuperating after a nine-hour operation there to

DHAKA: At least 43 people were killed and 13 others wounded on Wednesday when armed men opened fire inside a bus carrying members of the Ismaili community near Safoora Chowk in Karachi.Sindh Police Inspector General Ghulam Haider Jamali said that 60 people were on board the bus when six

DHAKA: More than 40 people have been killed and dozens injured in a gun attack on a bus carrying Shia Muslims in Karachi.Police said attackers on motorcycles stopped the bus and fired at passengers indiscriminately.‘At least six gunmen attacked a bus in the Safoora Goth area,’ a

DHAKA: Rescuers battled Wednesday to reach survivors of a deadly new earthquake in Nepal that triggered landslides and brought down buildings, as the search resumed for a US military helicopter that went missing while delivering aid.Thousands of traumatized survivors spent the night

DHAKA: A passenger train has derailed in Philadelphia, killing at least five people and injuring dozens of others, officials in the US city say.Up to 10 carriages of the Washington-New York Amtrak service went off the track on Tuesday evening, reports bbc.comEmergency officials and

DHAKA: North Korea's Defence Minister Hyon Yong-chol has been executed, South Korea's spy agency has told parliament, according to media reports.South Korea's Yonhap news agency said MPs were told Mr Hyon had been killed on 30 April by anti-aircraft fire in front of an audience of

DHAKA:  A powerful earthquake jolted mountainous Nepal on Tuesday, killing at least 66 people, including 17 in India and one in Chinese Tibet,  bringing down buildings and triggering landslide less than three weeks after a devastating temblor left a swathe of destruction in the

DHAKA: A 6.8-magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of northeastern Japan, the US Geological Survey (USGS) has said, but authorities have not issued a tsunami warning and there were no immediate reports of damage.The quake struck at 6.12am (21:12 GMT Tuesday) off the east coast of

DHAKA: A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter was reported missing in Nepal Tuesday while conducting disaster relief operations following the second deadly earthquake to strike the region in three weeks.The Huey was delivering tarps and rice to victims near Charikot. Six U.S. Marines and two

DHAKA: A major earthquake has struck eastern Nepal, near Mount Everest, two weeks after more than 8,000 people died in a devastating quake.At least 42 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured, officials say. At least 17 have also died in India.The latest earthquake hit near

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry began high stakes talks in the Russian resort of Sochi on Tuesday aimed at pushing President Vladimir Putin to fully implement a shaky Ukraine ceasefire.Kerry met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov ahead of talks with Putin in the Black Sea

DHAKA: Indonesia has turned away a boat carrying hundreds of migrants believed to be from Myanmar and Bangladesh.Indonesia’s navy said it provided the vessel with food and water on Monday before sending it back out to sea.It said that it did so because the migrants wanted to reach

DHAKA: At least 19 people were killed in Nepal and 981 injured in an earthquake on Tuesday, home ministry official Laxmi Prasad Dhakal said, giving a first national estimate.Five died in Sindhupalchowk, the district to the east of Kathmandu that reported the most deaths in the April 25

DHAKA: A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.Tremors were also felt across major swathes of north India, including Delhi, at about 12.40pm (local time), reports NDTV.Early reports suggest a magnitude of 7 on the Richter scale with

DHAKA: India Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take his global investment push to China this week, as Asia’s rival superpowers look to put aside a festering border dispute and identify areas of economic cooperation.Modi will fly out for his first visit as premier to China before heading

DHAKA: Europe’s first priority in confronting the Mediterranean migrant crisis is to save lives.EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told the UN Security Council on Monday.‘Our first priority is to save lives and prevent further loss of lives at sea,’ Mogherini told the

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia is sending a ‘strike force’ to its border with Yemen, Saudi-owned media reported on Monday, hours after the kingdom’s forces and Houthi rebels in Yemen traded heavy artillery fire.The Saudi-owned Al Arabiya Hadath TV channel broadcast pictures of a column of

DHAKA: Francois Hollande arrived in Havana late on Sunday, the first French president to visit Cuba in more than a century, cementing Paris’ lead in the EU rapprochement with the communist island.Hollande is also the first Western leader to visit Cuba since a surprise announcement in