DHAKA: A tour bus traveling through countryside in northwest China toppled off a steep hillside in Shaanxi Province on Friday, killing at least 35 people, according to state-run news media. It appeared to be the deadliest traffic accident in nine months in China, where the government has

DHAKA: A US jury has sentenced Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death by lethal injection.Three people were killed and 260 were injured when Tsarnaev, now 21, and his brother placed bombs at the finishing line of the Boston Marathon in 2013.Tsarnaev is likely to be moved to a federal

DHAKA: Mhairi Black, of the Scottish National Party, has become the youngest MP elected in the UK for 350 years after defeating Labour's shadow foreign secretary.20-year-old Black secured the biggest upset of the 2015 general election so far by beating Douglas Alexander in Paisley and

DHAKA: The US military has begun training a small group of Syrian rebels in an effort to build a force capable of defeating Islamic State (IS) militants.US defense secretary Ashton Carter said about 90 people were being trained in a secure location, and they would be paid by the United

DHAKA: Legislation that would dramatically expand the powers of Canada’s spy agency has cleared a key hurdle.The House of Commons on Wednesday approved the Anti-Terror Act, which was spurred by last year’s attack on parliament.The act would give the spy agency the ability to operate

DHAKA: At least 11 people were killed and seven injured in an explosion at a firecracker factory in West Bengal.The police said on Thursday, reports the NDTV.The explosion took place late on Wednesday at Pingla in West Midnapore district.“Eleven people have been killed and seven others

DHAKA: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held on to his job, announcing that he had hammered together a new coalition government just ahead of a midnight legal deadline.But with a knife-edge majority of just one seat in the 120-member parliament expectations were that he would

DHAKA: Millions of people will be casting their votes in the UK general election later.Polls open at 07:00 BST at around 50,000 polling stations across the country.A total of 650 Westminster MPs will be elected, with about 50 million people registered to vote.As well as the general

DHAKA: At least 20 people were killed in a suicide bombing outside the governor’s house in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province early Thursday.According to local police and hospital officials said at least 36 people protesting the governor were also wounded in the attack, including a

DHAKA: A Myanmar court has jailed two reporters for two months for defamation, a newspaper editor said on Thursday, in a case likely to raise concern about a reform program after half a century of strict military rule. The media in Myanmar has enjoyed sweeping freedoms since a

DHAKA: Japan and China held security talks Thursday after a four-year hiatus because of simmering territorial tensions, in a meeting expected to touch on the flashpoint issue of maritime crisis management.Officials and reports said, according to The Straits Times.The first such

DHAKA: A US drone strike in southern Somalia has killed Adnan Garaar, a leader of the al-Shabaab militant group.The Pentagon said on Wednesday which reports the Jerusalem Post on Thursday.The March 12 strike hit a vehicle carrying Garaar, a top al Shabaab official suspected of

DHAKA: At least two people have been killed and several injured in a shooting in a restaurant in the south-western Swedish city of Gothenburg.Police said this which reports the BBC.They say automatic weapons - believed to be Kalashnikov assault rifles - were used in the attack late on

DHAKA: Gunmen disguised as soldiers opened fire at a museum in Tunis, the Tunisian capital, on Wednesday, killing 19 people.The attack was sparking a hostage drama that ended with security forces storming the building, leaving two assailants and a police officer dead, reports the Al

DHAKA: At least 34 militants were killed when fighter jets pounded their positions in the restive northwestern tribal region on Wednesday.The Pakistani military said this which reports the Times of India.Pakistan intensified operations against Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants

DHAKA: French president Francois Hollande on Wednesday expressed his country’s ‘solidarity’ with Tunisia after at least seven foreigners and a Tunisian national were killed in a brazen day-time attack.In a brief call with his Tunisian counterpart Beji Caid Essebsi, Hollande

DHAKA: The Greek parliament adopted a ‘humanitarian crisis’ bill on Wednesday, the first package of social measures put forward by prime minister Alexis Tsipras’ radical left-wing government.In going ahead with presenting the bill of housing allowances and emergency food aid for the

DHAKA: Three gunmen have attacked Tunisia’s parliament building, local radio reported, citing one of its reporters at the scene.At least eight tourists were killed and others were taken hostage by the militants who attacked Tunisia’s parliament compound, which includes a museum.A

DHAKA: Michelle Obama arrived in Japan on Wednesday afternoon on her first visit to the country, as part of a trip to highlight the importance of girls’ education.The first lady, who stepped off a US government plane wearing a bright yellow dress, was without her husband president

DHAKA: The Palestinians slammed Israelis on Wednesday for voting for prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud party, saying they had chosen ‘occupation and settlement building’ over peace talks.‘Israel chose the path of racism, occupation and settlement building, and