DHAKA: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon will travel to Ebola-hit countries in West Africa this week to raise awareness about the health crisis.UN officials said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.Ban is to make the announcement at a year-end press conference at the United

DHAKA: Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said he realises that he may be the last to hold the title.But he told the BBC it would be better that the centuries-old tradition ceased ‘at the time of a popular Dalai Lama’.The Dalai Lama suggested the UK had taken a soft

DHAKA: Jeb Bush, brother of for US president George W Bush, has taken his most definitive step yet toward running for president, announcing plans to "actively explore" a campaign and form a new political operation allowing him to raise money for like-minded Republicans.In a holiday

DHAKA: The Pakistani city of Peshawar is burying its dead after a Taliban attack at a school killed at least 132 children and nine staff.Mourners crowded around coffins bedecked with flowers, while other families waited at hospitals for news, reports BBC.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif

DHAKA: Attacks against journalists have grown more "barbaric" in 2014 as 66 reporters were killed and kidnappings "soared," a leading media rights group said.In its annual report published on Tuesday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said there was an "an evolution in the nature of

DHAKA: Pakistani officials say the siege at an army-run school in Peshawar is over, and authorities are now sweeping the area.At least 141 people, most of them children (132), died when Taliban gunmen attacked the school in the morning.The overwhelming majority of the victims were

DHAKA: Nobel Peace Prize 2014 winner Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday condemned the Peshawar attack and said that she is ‘heartbroken by senseless and cold-blooded act of terror’.‘I am heartbroken by senseless and cold-blooded act of terror,’ Malala said, BBC reported, according to

DHAKA: Kenya on Tuesday closed over 500 non-governmental organisations, including 15 for alleged fundraising for terrorism, as part of a security crackdown following repeated attacks.The government’s non-governmental organisation (NGO) coordination board said in a statement it had

DHAKA: France and Germany have condemned the Taleban attack on a school in Pakistan on Tuesday.French president Francois Hollande condemned what he described as a ‘vile’ attack that has killed at least 130 people, the majority children.‘No words can express the ignominy of such

DHAKA: At least 126 people, mostly children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.The toll was confirmed by provincial minister, says the BBC.However, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial information minister Mushtaq Ghani tells the

DHAKA: French president Francois Hollande condemned what he described as a ‘vile’ attack on a school in Pakistan Tuesday that has killed at least 130 people, the majority children.‘No words can express the ignominy of such an attack against children in their school,’ Hollande

DHAKA: Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday condemned the deadly attack on a school by terrorists in Pakistan city of Peshawar.Over 100 people, including at least 84 children, were killed as terrorists took students and teachers hostage in the Army Public School. The attack

DHAKA: Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said the gunman who took hostages at a cafe in Sydney was not on any terror watch list even though he was well-known to intelligence authorities and police.‘How can someone who has had such a long and checkered history, not be on the

DHAKA: India on Tuesday declared a ban on the Islamic State (IS), days after having detained an engineer for running a popular Twitter account extolling the militant group’s military campaign.India has the world’s third-largest population of Muslims, but they have largely shunned

DHAKA: Taliban militants have entered an army-run school on Warsak road, taking students and teachers hostage.Pakistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province chief minister Pervez Khattak says 84 children have been killed in the attack.‘The terrorists entered the school wearing FC personnel

DHAKA: A Pakistani hospital official says 20 students and one soldier have been killed in a Taliban attack on a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar.Jamil Shah, a spokesman for Lady Reading Hospital, says the killed soldier was a member of the Pakistani paramilitary forces.The

DHAKA: Six people have been shot dead and at least one other wounded in three locations near Philadelphia, officials in the US state of Pennsylvania say.Montgomery County police are seeking the suspected gunman, whom they named as Bradley William Stone, 35.They say he may be armed and

DHAKA: An investigation has been launched into the police operation which ended a siege in a cafe in Sydney, Australia.Two people died, along with the gunman, as police commandos stormed the cafe in Martin Place in the heart of Sydney early on Tuesday morning.The victims have been named

DHAKA: The gunman holding people hostage in a Sydney cafe has been identified as an Iranian refugee who was on bail facing a number of charges.Man Haron Monis, who was granted political asylum in Australia, was described by his former lawyer as an isolated figure, who was acting

DHAKA: A gunman holding three laborers hostage in the Saudi capital Riyadh shot dead a member of the security forces when police tried to free the captives.Police said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.The gunman was later arrested and the three laborers were freed, a police