DHAKA: At least 12 people were killed and many more are feared trapped after a TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a river in New Taipei City, which encircles Taipei, on Wednesday.According to the latest update from the Taipei City Government at 1.52pm local time, 30 people remain

DHAKA: Myanmar on Wednesday condemned a United Nations official for using the term ‘Rohingya’ to describe a persecuted minority that the government refers to as Bengali, which implies they are illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in

DHAKA: Greece’s leaders have received a guarded welcome to their reported proposals for a debt deal, ahead of crunch talks with EU creditors.After a meeting in Rome with Greek PM Alexis Tsipras, Italian PM Matteo Renzi said his country would ‘give Greece a hand’ without always

DHAKA: At least nine people were killed and dozens are feared trapped after their TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a river in New Taipei City on Wednesday.News reports said, according to The Straits Times.Seventeen others, including two children, have been sent to hospitals in New

DHAKA: At least seven people were killed Tuesday evening after a Metro-North commuter train struck a Jeep just north of the train station, the MTA confirmed.At least 12 others were said to be injured in the crash.Aaron Donovan, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority,

DHAKA: A TransAsia Airways plane crash landed in a Taipei river, injuring more than 10 people, television reported on Wednesday.No other details were immediately available.Source: sbs.com.auBDST: 0955 HRS, FEB 04, 2015

DHAKA: Jordan has begun executing fighters on death row at dawn as part of an "earth-shattering" response to the burning alive of one of its fighter pilots by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.Just hours after a video emerged online on Tuesday purporting to show

DHAKA: Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is to visit the European Central Bank in Frankfurt on Wednesday.An ECB spokesman told the media, reports The Straits Times.The spokesman gave no details of the timetable of the visit or whether Varoufakis would meet ECB chief Mario Draghi.But

DHAKA: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has ruled that Serbia did not commit genocide in Croatia during the Balkan Wars.It is still issuing its ruling on a counter claim of genocide from the Serbian side.The Croatian government had alleged that Serbia committed

DHAKA:  A ‘breakthrough understanding’ to open India’s nuclear power sector to United States firms reached during president Barack Obama’s visit to New Delhi last month could be finalised this year.Indian officials say, reports The Straits Times.The January 25 announcement by

DHAKA: The snow and ice that swept into the Northeast on Monday, crippling major airports and hindering the recovery from the blizzard last week, has been blamed for at least 11 deaths, and with brutal cold bringing the threat of a flash freeze, Tuesday could again be an icy mess.New

DHAKA: United States president Barack Obama’s fiscal 2016 Budget proposes US$7.4 billion to fund clean energy technologies and a US$4 billion fund to encourage US states to make faster and deeper cuts to emissions from power plants.Officials told the media, reports The Straits

DHAKA: A new Saudi Arabian pan-Arab news channel has stopped scheduled broadcasting less than 24 hours after going on air from studios in Bahrain.Alarab TV, owned by billionaire Saudi businessman, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, launched with the promise of politically independent news

DHAKA: A court in Egypt has upheld death sentences on 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters over a 2013 attack on a police station near Cairo.The men were convicted over the deaths of at least 11 officers in Kerdasa.The attack took place after Egyptian military forces cracked down on

DHAKA: China is making it harder for its regional governments to get ad hoc cash transfers from central authorities in another step to reform its fiscal system and reduce wasteful public spending.China’s central government regularly transfers cash to regional authorities via fiscal

DHAKA: A three-year-old boy in the United States has shot his parents after being left within reach of a gun, the latest in a spate of firearm-related tragedies involving young children.The toddler was in a hotel room in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his parents and two-year-old

DHAKA: South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek Machar have signed a deal, committing to end the conflict that has devastated the country.The ceasefire agreement was signed at talks in Ethiopia, reports the BBC.But consultations will continue on the contentious issue

DHAKA: The UN Security Council demanded the immediate release of all hostages held by the Islamic State group, as Jordan vowed to do everything it can to save the life of a pilot captured by the militants.The 15-member council condemned on Sunday the "heinous and cowardly" murder of

DHAKA: Outspoken billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on Sunday launched a pan-Arab satellite news channel aimed at challenging established networks in the region.From a studio lit in green and white, the Bahrain-based Alarab News Channel took to the air, leading with a story about

DHAKA: On the hugely popular ‘Arabs Got Talent’ TV show in Beirut last month, five young musicians in chequered black-and-white scarves brought the house down with a traditional Arabic song that left the judges weeping and earned a ticket straight to the finals.In the Gaza Strip there