DHAKA: At a private working lunch for the five most powerful members of the United Nations Security Council, the conversation turned to the question of the next UN secretary-general.A European ambassador reminded colleagues of a General Assembly resolution nearly as old as the 70-year

DHAKA: Around 95 captives have escaped an Islamic State-run prison in northern Syria including about 30 Kurdish fighters.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday said the jailbreak happened in the town of Al Bab, 30 km (20 miles) south of the Turkish

DHAKA: After Helal Uddin, another Bangladeshi has been identified among nine foreign nationals taken hostage by militant group ISIS from Al Ghani Oil Field in Libya on Friday.Bangladesh Embassy in Tripoli confirmed about particulars of the Bangladeshi national named Mohammad Anowar

DHAKA: Student protesters in Myanmar have clashed with riot police in Letpadan, 140km (90 miles) north of Yangon.Several hundred students began trying to break through police lines which prevented them continuing a march south.Police are reported to have hit the students with batons and

DHAKA: Three French sports personalities are among 10 people killed in a helicopter crash in Argentina, the French presidential office confirms.Eight French nationals and their two Argentine pilots all died when two helicopters collided in La Rioja province in the country’s

DHAKA: Ten people were killed after two helicopters collided during the filming of a television show in north-west Argentina, reports BBC.Those dead were eight French nationals and their two Argentine pilots.They crashed near the town of Villa Castelli, about 1,170km (720 miles) from

DHAKA: A record-breaking attempt to fly around the world in a solar-powered plane has got under way from Abu Dhabi.The aircraft - called Solar Impulse-2 - took off from the Emirate, heading east to Muscat in Oman.Over the next five months, it will skip from continent to continent,

DHAKA: President Vladimir Putin has revealed the moment he said he gave the secret order for Russia’s annexation of Crimea.He also described how Russian troops were ready to fight to rescue Ukraine’s deposed, pro-Moscow president, reports the NDTV.In a trailer shown on Sunday for an

DHAKA: At least 30 people were killed as US-led coalition air strike in Syria hit an oil refinery run by the Islamic State militant group near the border with Turkey.Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the dead were refinery workers and Islamic

DHAKA: Five people were killed in stabbing attack in a house early Monday in the western Japanese city of Sumoto in Japan.Police said a 40-year-old unemployed man was arrested for allegedly attacking the victims in a house, reports the BBC.Japanese media have named the attacker as

DHAAK: Islamic State militants have destroyed ruins at the ancient city of Hatra, Iraqi officials say.A tourism and antiquities ministry official said the extent of the damage at the Unesco world heritage site was unclear, but he had received reports that it had been demolished.Hatra was

DHAKA: It has become known for horrific images of beheadings and torture, but the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria group is trying to lure foreign recruits to its ‘caliphate’ with promises of adventure, homes, jobs - even love.Using sophisticated recruitment techniques, the

DHAKA: The leaders of China and North Korea will meet when it is convenient for them.China’s foreign minister said on Sunday, calling China’s isolated neighboring country a friend, reports The Straits Times.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has yet to visit China, his country’s only

DHAKA: Police has registered 300 FIRs of rape in the first two months of this year in Delhi, capital of India. This indicates that on an average, five rape cases are lodged every day in the city. Last year, the number of FIRs filed stood at 2,069, reports the Times of India.If

DHAKA: Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS), according to an audio statement.The message, which has not been verified, was posted on Boko Haram's Twitter account and is believed to be by the group's leader, Abubakar Shekau.Boko Haram began a

DHAKA: At least four Chinese feminists have been detained ahead of International Women’s Day, a lawyer said Saturday, in what appears to be a move by Beijing to head off public protest linked to the holiday.Li Tingting, a young activist best known for staging demonstrations in

DHAKA: Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed Saturday to have completed their withdrawal of heavy weapons, in line with a February ceasefire deal.‘Today is the last day of the weapons withdrawal,’ Edouard Bassourine, one of the rebel leaders told reporters in the town of

DHAKA: Three bombings rocked separate targets in northeast Nigeria’s largest city of Maiduguri on Saturday, killing at least 33 people, witnesses and a local official told the media, in violence blamed on Boko Haram.The first attack was carried out by a female suicide bomber at the

DHAKA: Truckers in Assam on Saturday stopped plying their vehicles from here to Dimapur and other parts of Nagaland in protest against the lynching of a rape accused in Nagaland’s commercial hub Dimapur on Thursday.At least 17 truckers' bodies in Assam said on Saturday that the

DHAKA: The military chief and several top commanders of the Al Qaida-affiliated Al Nusra Front have been reported killed in northwestern Syria, where the militia has been making major gains in recent months.Syrian state media, a monitoring group and a local activist reported that Abu