DHAKA: At least 30 people were killed in landslides and flash floods as tropical storm ‘Jangmi’ slowly crossed the southern and central Philippines, dumping heavy rain for a second day on Tuesday.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.Rivers burst their banks and submerged villages

DHAKA: Indonesia officials said they were "95 percent sure" that debris and bodies spotted in the Java Sea on Tuesday were from the missing AirAsia passenger jet that disappeared with 162 people aboard.The Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency told NBC News that teams searching for

DHAKA: USA president Barack Obama has said Vladimir Putin made a ‘strategic mistake’ when he annexed Crimea, in a move that was ‘not so smart’.Those thinking his Russian counterpart was a ‘genius’ had been proven wrong by Russia's economic crisis, he said, reports the

DHAKA: News that Greece faces a snap election on 25 January has been met with international concern, with the radical left scenting victory. Alexis Tsipras, leader of Syriza, has vowed ‘austerity will be history’ if his left-wing party wins on 25 January, reports the BBC. German

DHAKA: Items resembling a plane door and an emergency slide have been found in the search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501, according to officials. At least 10 large objects have been found in the Java Sea, around six miles from where the plane lost contact with air traffic control, the

DHAKA: The hunt for AirAsia flight QZ8501 has entered a third day, with the search area widened to cover land and sea, reports BBC. Indonesian officials say they are sending teams to investigate reports of smoke on an island in East Bilutung, inside the expanded search zone. The Airbus

DHAKA: The Russian economy contracted by 0.5% in November, the first fall in national output - Gross Domestic Product - since October 2009.Russian official figures show, reports the BBC.The Russian government expects a 0.8% decline in GDP next year, compared with 0.6% GDP growth in 2014

DHAKA: All remaining passengers have been taken off the ferry Norman Atlantic, which caught fire off the island of Corfu.Italian officials say, reports the BBC.Five people died in the incident. One man was killed when trying to escape the ship, and a further four bodies have been

DHAKA: British boxer Amir Khan on Monday visited the Pakistani school where Taliban gunmen slaughtered 150 people, including 134 children, to pay his respects to the victims.The World Boxing Council welterweight world champion, who has Pakistani roots, has pledged to help rebuild the Army

DHAKA: A Pakistani court on Monday suspended a detention order on the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, government lawyers said, a move likely to further inflame tensions with India.The suspension is the latest round in a tussle over whether to grant bail to Zaki-ur-Rehman

DHAKA: South Korea has offered to resume high-level talks next month with North Korea on a range of issues, to prepare for a ‘peaceful unification’.Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae said he especially hoped to discuss the reunion of families separated by the Korean War more than

DHAKA: Indonesia's top rescue official says authorities believe the missing AirAsia jet is likely at the bottom of the sea, based on radar data from the plane's last contact."(Because) the coordinate that was given to us and the evolution from the calculation point of the flight

DHAKA: Ships and planes have resumed searching for a passenger jet that went missing on a flight from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on board.First Admiral Sigit Setiayana, the Naval Aviation Center Commander at the Surabaya air force base, said on Monday that 12 navy ships,

DHAKA: The worst flooding in Malaysia in more than a decade has killed 10 people and forced nearly 160,000 from their homes and more rain is expected.Authorities said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.Among the casualties, five were in the worst-hit state of Kelantan, in

DHAKA: Rescuers scouring the Java Sea for a missing AirAsia Indonesia plane with 162 aboard halted their search at nightfall on Sunday and will resume on Monday.Indonesia’s transport ministry said, reports The Straits Times.‘We ended at 5.30pm (local time) because it was getting

DHAKA: Former US president George HW Bush will stay at a Texas hospital through the weekend after experiencing breathing problems. But his spokesman said on Saturday he could be discharged soon, The Straits Times publishes this report on Sunday. Bush, 90, was admitted late Tuesday to

DHAKA: In the face of adversity, some people showed their ugly side out of desperation but Malaysians are proving to be courageous and compassionate. An IT engineer, who wanted to be known only as Jack, told The Star that victims affected by the floods were desperate due to a shortage of

DHAKA: Unconfirmed reports have emerged online that wreckage, allegedly to be from the missing Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has been found in the waters off East Belitung.This was reported by the Bangka Pos, which however added that there was no confirmation that the purported

DHAKA:  Syria is ready to meet the country's opposition in Moscow in an effort to find a way out of the nearly four-year civil war, a government official has said. "Syria is ready to participate in a preliminary and consultative meeting in Moscow to respond to the aspirations of Syrians

DHAKA: A search operation is underway for an AirAsia Indonesia flight with 162 people on board that lost contact with Indonesian air traffic control en route to Singapore on Sunday, after the pilots asked to change course to avoid bad weather and no distress signal was sent.Flight QZ8501,