DHAKA: US NBC anchor Brian Williams has said he is temporarily taking himself off air, days after apologising for wrongly saying he came under fire in Iraq.Williams said it had become "painfully apparent" that he was too much a part of the news.He repeatedly told a story about being

DHAKA: A year after its 49-day stint in power ended abruptly, Arvind Kejriwal's AAP was set to return to power in Delhi, exit polls said Saturday after record voting in assembly elections whose outcome is bound to have national ramifications.Half-a-dozen exit polls said the AAP, born

DHAKA: Libya's warring factions will resume UN-sponsored talks on Tuesday (Feb 10) inside the country to try to resolve a struggle between two governments and parliaments, officials from both sides said on Saturday (Feb 7).The news came as new clashes between pro-government forces and

DHAKA: Polling is underway in Delhi on Saturday in a high-pitched electrifying electoral battle that the national capital has never witnessed before.  Voters will decide whether to give Delhi a decisive mandate in favour of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) or the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -

NEW YORK: Robert Watkins has been appointed as new resident representative of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bangladesh. He will arrive in Dhaka on his assignment by February.   Bangladesh Permanent Mission to UN informed that Robert Watkins has already started taking

DHAKA: The U.S. economy added 257,000 jobs in January, adding to the gains from last year, which was the best for job growth since 1999. The official unemployment rate ticked up to 5.7%, a notch higher than December.  "The labor market recovery is finally hitting its stride," says Gus

DHAKA: At least 17 people were killed as a fire broke out in a wholesale market in Guangdong province of southern China.The fourth floor of the building in Huidong county was ablaze on Thursday afternoon, local government said.More than 200 firefighters was working to bring the fire under

DHAKA: Rescue workers are trying to find nine people still missing from the TransAsia Airways plane that crashed into a river in Taiwan on Wednesday.The rescue team also concerned that some of them might have been swept away by currents.Some 34 people have been confirmed dead from the

DHAKA: At least 18 militants were killed in a gun battle in a mountainous district of Afghanistan near Pakistan.Police said on Thursday, they were killed in the latest fighting in the region since a Taliban massacre of school children in the nearby city of Peshawar late last year,

DHAKA: Tunisia’s parliament has approved a unity government led by the secular Nidaa Tounes party and including its Islamist rivals, in the latest step in its transition to full democracy following a 2011 uprising.The cabinet headed by Prime Minister Habib Essid, which includes members

DHAKA: Diplomatic efforts are under way to end renewed fighting in eastern Ukraine.French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held urgent talks in the capital Kiev, presenting a new peace initiative.US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is also in Kiev, said

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama called the Dalai Lama a "good friend" and an inspiration for freedom.The president said this on Thursday which reports the Times of India.Speaking at a closely watched prayer event in Washington with the lama in the audience, Obama said Tibet’s exiled

DHAKA: Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said their air strikes on Islamic State (IS) targets are ‘the beginning of our retaliation’ for the killing of a captured Jordanian pilot.He said Jordan was going after IS ‘with everything that we have’.Jordan had previously only

DHAKA: At least 66 people were killed as Syria’s regime pounded a rebel stronghold with air strikes after a barrage of opposition fire hit the capital Damascus on Thursday.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 12 children were among those killed in the opposition-held Eastern

DHAKA: The leaders of Germany and France launched a new diplomatic initiative over Ukraine on Thursday, announcing they would fly together to Kiev and Moscow with a proposal to resolve the conflict that could be ‘acceptable to all’. The coordinated trip by German chancellor Angela

DHAKA: Greece’s new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has urged Germany not to humiliate the country over its debts. Varoufakis compared Greece’s plight with that of inter-war Germany, speaking ahead of a meeting with his German counterpart. Germany was burdened with massive debts

DHAKA: Al-Qaeda said Thursday that one of its top militants who threatened more attacks on France after the Charlie Hebdo killings has died in a US drone strike in Yemen. Harith al-Nadhari and three other militants were killed in a January 31 ‘crusader American drone strike against

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry is to hold talks in Ukraine, as Washington mulls whether to start sending weapons to help Kiev fight pro-Russian rebels.Ashton Carter, the White House’s choice for defence secretary, earlier said he was ‘inclined’ to start supplying arms.The

DHAKA: Peter Greste, the Al Jazeera journalist freed after 400 days in an Egyptian prison, has arrived back in his Australian homeland. Greste called for the release of two colleagues still in custody after he arrived on Thursday in the Queensland state capital of Brisbane, where he was

DHAKA: Rocket salvoes hit a previously safe section of Ukraine's rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Wednesday, killing at least five people and damaging a hospital, six schools and five kindergartens, rebels said.The fighting between Russia-backed separatists and government troops in