DHAKA: Eight children have been found stabbed to death at a house in the city of Cairns in northern Queensland, say Australian police.There are also reports that a woman has been taken to hospital with stab wounds.Police have cordoned off the house and detectives are searching the yard

DHAKA: Kurdish forces backed by US-led warplanes have recaptured a large area in Iraq near the Syrian border in an offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, a top US commander has said.More than 50 air strikes in recent days by coalition aircraft "have

DHAKA: Pakistan Army chief General Raheel Sharif tweeted on Wednesday, saying, “Asked PM Nawaz Sharif to hang all terrorists. More than 3,000 terrorists should be hanged in next 48 hours.”He made the tweet a day later, Lashkar-e-Taiba’s commander Zaki-ur Rahman Lakhvi was out on

DHAKA: Congress president Sonia Gandhi was on Thursday admitted to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi for an infection in the lower respiratory tract. Her condition was stable, a hospital official said.“Sonia Gandhi was today (Thursday) admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital around

DHAKA: A Pakistani court Thursday granted bail to the alleged mastermind of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, lawyers told the media, a move likely to further inflame tensions with India.The 60-hour siege on India's economic capital left 166 people dead and was blamed on the banned

DHAKA: Boko Haram has kidnapped at least 185 people from the northeast Nigeria village of Gumsuri, carting the hostages away on trucks towards the Sambisa Forest, a notorious rebel stronghold.Two local officials and a vigilante leader said Thursday, reports The Straits Times.The mass

DHAKA: President Vladimir Putin has insisted Russia’s under-fire currency, the rouble, will stabilise, but warned the economic crisis could last two years.He is currently holding his annual end-of-year news conference, reports the BBC.Putin blamed ‘outside factors’ for the falling

DHAKA: A New Zealander and two Burmese men have gone on trial in Myanmar on charges of insulting Buddhism.The trio, who run a bar in Yangon, are accused over a flyer promoting a drinks event depicting Buddha with headphones.The image triggered an angry response online shortly after it

DHAKA: A draft resolution setting out a Palestinian timetable for a peace deal with Israel has been submitted to the UN Security Council.The document, presented by Jordan, calls for a deal within one year and Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories by the end of 2017.Jordan has

DHAKA: A draft resolution setting out a Palestinian timetable for a peace deal with Israel has been submitted to the UN Security Council.The document, presented by Jordan, calls for a deal within one year and Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories by the end of 2017.Jordan has

DHAHA: Cuban President Raul Castro has urged the US to end its trade embargo after the two countries opened formal talks on restoring diplomatic relations.He said the five-decade embargo "caused enormous human and economic damage".But only the US Congress has the power to lift the

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has hailed a "new chapter" in US relations with Cuba, announcing moves to normalise diplomatic and economic ties.Obama said Washington's current approach was "outdated" and the changes were the "most significant" in US policy towards Cuba in 50 years,

DHAKA: In the aftermath of deadly Taliban attack on an army-run school in Peshawar, Pakistan’s military launched 20 air strikes including “dynamic targeting” killing 57 terrorists in Khyber Agency’s Tirah Valley, Army spokesman said on Wednesday.Director General Inter-Services

DHAKA: The Taliban gunmen who stormed a school on Tuesday in the Pakistani city of Peshawar killing 148 people, including 132 children, have been identified by the militant group. The Pakistani Taliban released the pictures as they issued a statement claiming the attack was justified

DHAKA: Pakistan’s powerful army chief General Raheel Sharif visited Kabul on Wednesday for talks with Afghanistan’s president on tackling insurgents, a day after Taliban militants killed 148 people at a Pakistani school.Sharif, accompanied by the head of Pakistan’s main

DHAKA: A seven-year-old boy died on Tuesday after being beaten brutally in a school in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, allegedly by his teacher. Araj, a nursery student, was allegedly thrashed for not doing his homework and not paying the school fee.Senior police officer MP Singh said at

DHAKA: Indian lawmakers and schools observed a two-minute silence over the massacre in Peshawar that claimed 141 lives on Tuesday.Dawn.com reports on Wednesday.Apart from the two-minute silence, the schools also held special prayers to commemorate the victims of the attack.The show of

DHAKA: The Afghan Taliban have condemned a raid on a school in Peshawar that left 141 dead in the country’s bloodiest ever terror attack, saying killing innocent children was against Islam.Survivors said militants gunned down children as young as 12 during the eight-hour onslaught

DHAKA: The Palestinian Islamic militant group Hamas must be removed from the EU’s terrorism blacklist, but its assets will stay frozen for the time being.A European court ruled on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.The original listing in 2001 was based not on sound legal

DHAKA: Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday approved the removal of moratorium on death penalty after the carnage in Peshawar killed 141 people.Addressing an All Parties Conference (APC) in Peshawar, the premier announced that the moratorium on death penalty, which was