DHAKA: Hong Kong police arrested pro-democracy activists and cleared most of the main protest site, marking an end to more than two months of street demonstrations in the Chinese-controlled city, but many chanted ‘We will be back’. Most activists chose to leave the Admiralty site,

DHAKA: The Pakistani Taliban hit out at teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai over her Nobel peace prize on Friday, slamming her as a ‘soldier against Islamic society’. Malala became a global icon after she was shot and nearly killed by the Taliban in October 2012 for insisting

DHAKA: A Brazilian man has confessed to killing 39 women in the Rio de Janeiro region, police said Thursday.In an interview with Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo, the alleged killer, Sailson Jose das Gracas, said that he carried out the first slaying when he was 17 and continued to kill

DHAKA: CIA Director John Brennan has defended the agency's post-9/11 interrogation methods but admitted some techniques were "harsh" and "abhorrent".Speaking at CIA headquarters, he said some officers acted beyond their authority but most did their duty, reports BBC.A scathing Senate

DHAKA: Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients and the people who cared for them, died Dec. 11 while on assignment for The

DHAKA: India plans to decriminalise attempted suicide, raising hopes Thursday for the release of rights activist Irom Sharmila, who has been on a hunger strike for 14 years. India’s junior home minister has said it would act on recommendations from the law commission to amend

DHAKA: Russia will built, operate and maintain two units at phase II of Hungary’s Paks nuclear power project. The units will be built using Russia’s latest VVER 1200 technology.A series of contracts to this effect were signed in the Hungarian capital on December 9, 2014 by Sándor

DHAKA: Israeli and Palestinian officials issued conflicting accounts on Thursday over the results of an autopsy on a Palestinian minister who died after being shoved and grabbed by the neck by an Israeli policeman at a West Bank protest on Wednesday. Hussein al-Sheikh, a top Palestinian

DHAKA: The UN General Assembly will take up an India-led resolution on Thursday to declare June 21 every year as ‘International Day of Yoga’, with an unprecedented 175 countries joining as co-sponsors, less than three months after India prime minister Narendra Modi proposed the idea.

DHAKA: Russia’s state-owned Rosatom said it would supply 12 nuclear energy reactors for India over 20 years, under an agreement aimed at boosting nuclear energy cooperation signed by the two countries during a summit in New Delhi on Thursday.A 1,000-megawatt reactor is operating at the

DHAKA: At least six Afghan soldiers have been killed by a suicide bomber on the outskirts of the capital Kabul.Police and officials say, reports the BBC.They said that the bomber was on foot and targeted a bus carrying the troops.The Taliban say that they carried out the attack, the first

DHAKA: At least six Afghan soldiers have been killed by a suicide bomber on the outskirts of the capital Kabul, police and officials say.They said that the bomber was on foot and targeted a bus carrying the troops.The Taliban say that they carried out the attack, the first by them in the

DHAKA: Hong Kong authorities have begun clearing barricades at the main protest camp, after more than two months of pro-democracy demonstrations.The authorities had warned protestors to leave ahead of the operation, but some vowed to remain.The number of protesters has fallen to a few

DHAKA: Time magazine on Wednesday named the medics who have treated patients struck with the killer Ebola virus as its ‘Person of the Year 2014’, paying tribute to their courage and mercy.The year saw the Ebola outbreak turn into an epidemic in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, and

DHAKA: Malala Yousafzai, the youngest ever Nobel laureate, received the Peace Prize on Wednesday, sharing it with Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi.The 17-year-old Pakistani girl, who was given the prize in a ceremony in Oslo, became a global icon after she was shot and

DHAKA: A Palestinian official has died after a confrontation with Israeli troops at a protest in the West Bank, reports say.A Reuters news agency photographer said Ziad Abu Ein, a minister without portfolio, was hit and shoved by soldiers near the village of Turmusiya.But Palestinian

DHAKA: From the ruins of a bombed-out palace above Kabul, a young Afghan man bearing a striking resemblance to kung fu legend Bruce Lee is high-kicking his way to internet fame, aiming to show another side to his war-weary nation.Videos and photos of Abbas Alizada, 20, posted on the

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama took on the role of talk show host, poking fun at himself during an appearance on Stephen Colbert’s satirical show.‘The guy is so arrogant, I bet he talks about himself in the third person,’ a grinning Obama said as he slipped into Colbert’s

DHAKA: Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai has told the BBC ahead of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday that she hopes to pursue a career in politics.She said that she may even aspire to be prime minister of Pakistan once she has completed her studies in the UK.Malala has been

DHAKA: Israeli air strikes on four high-rise buildings in the final days of this summer's conflict in Gaza amounted to war crimes.Amnesty International says, reports the BBC.Evidence suggested the destruction was ‘carried out deliberately and with no military justification’, a new