DHAKA: The first passengers have travelled at an incredible 311 mph on a hovering bullet train in Japan.The maglev trains have been tested before between the cities of Uenohara and Fuefuki but now members of the public have been allowed on board for the first time.The 27-mile trip went

SINGAPORE: A Singapore court awarded imprisonment to two Bangladeshi nationals and fined as they tried to enter Malaysia from Singapore illegally. The convicts are Mohammad Ali of Feni and Yasin Ali of Noakhali. Earlier on July 5, they were nabbed by immigration police at Woodlands

DHAKA: The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group on Sunday released a video showing the simultaneous beheadings of at least 15 men described as Syrian military personnel.In the highly choreographed sequence, IS militants march the prisoners by a wooden box of long military knives, each

DHAKA: Asian powerhouse China will host world leaders for the G-20 summit in 2016, Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said on Sunday at the conclusion of two days of talks in Brisbane.Turkey takes over the presidency from Australia and will host the event in Antalya next year, but

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama on Sunday rejected any alliance with Bashar al-Assad against the Islamic State (IS) group, arguing that the Syrian president was illegitimate and that any such pact would backfire.‘Assad has ruthlessly murdered hundreds of thousands of his citizens.

DHAKA: A suicide bomber has targeted a prominent female Afghan politician, killing three civilians and wounding others in an attack on a Kabul convoy.Shukria Barakzai, a women’s rights advocate and ally of new president Ashraf Ghani, was lightly injured in the attack.‘(Ms Barakzai)

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that there was a ‘good chance’ of resolving the conflict in Ukraine as Western leaders squarely blamed Moscow and threatened to slap more sanctions if it did not take action to end the crisis.Putin was speaking at a G-20

DHAKA: International Crimes Strategy Forum (ICSF) along with a number of UK based Bangladeshi progressive and pro-liberation organizations on Saturday staged demonstration in front of the Al-Jazeera’s London office.Sources said that they protested the news agency’s ‘biased’

DHAKA: Voters in Romania are set to elect a new president in a run-off vote which pits the social democrat prime minister against a centre-right candidate.Prime Minister Victor Ponta led in the first round with 40% to 30% for Klaus Iohannis, an ethnic German mayor, reports BBC.Ponta

DHAKA: Ukraine's president has ordered the withdrawal of all state services, including funding for hospitals and schools, from rebel-held areas.Petro Poroshenko issued a decree that also asks parliament to revoke a law granting self-rule to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.Pro-Russian

DHAKA: A judge in north-eastern Brazil has sentenced three people to 20-23 years in jail after they were convicted of killing a woman and eating her.Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira received 23 years while his wife, Isabel Cristina Pires, and his mistress, Bruna Cristina Oliveira

DHAKA: America's top general has told US troops in Iraq that momentum is turning against Islamic State militants.Gen Martin Dempsey, on an unannounced visit, called the militants "midgets" but said the battle against them was likely to take years.The US has launched air strikes against

DHAKA: The G20 summit in Australia has entered its second and final day with the focus on boosting economic growth.Finance ministers from G20 countries drew up plans in February to boost global growth by 2% in five years.The first day was overshadowed by anger with Russia's President

DHAKA: Armed clashes have erupted in the Syrian town of Douma after hungry residents stormed food warehouses belonging to an Islamist rebel group.A monitoring group said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the clashes on Friday began

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin is to walk out of a Group of 20 summit in Australia, an aide said on Saturday, after he faced scorn and scepticism from Western leaders over Ukraine despite venturing to paper over Europe’s deepest chill in relations since the Cold War.The

DHAKA: Islamic State militants withdrew on Saturday from the perimeter of Iraq’s biggest oil refinery after months fending off government troops seeking to retake the strategic complex.An army officer and Al-Hadath television station, reports The Jerusalem Post.The officer, speaking

DHAKA: Three Hong Kong student leaders were stopped from boarding a flight to Beijing on Saturday to take their fight for greater democracy directly to the Chinese government after airline authorities said their travel permits were invalid.The students, led by Hong Kong Federation of

DHAKA: Pakistan and Afghanistan pledged to begin a new era of economic cooperation on Saturday, with Afghan president Ashraf Ghani saying three days of talks had ended 13 years of differences.Ghani and Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif said collaboration on economic and energy

DHAKA: China has signed agreements worth US$7.8 billion with neighbouring Myanmar, state media reported on Saturday, as Beijing continues to assert its growing economic clout in South-east Asia.Deals overseen by Chinese premier Li Keqiang and Myanmar president Thein Sein on Friday

DHAKA: Leaders of the world’s most powerful economies on Saturday vowed to do all they can to ‘extinguish’ the deadly Ebola outbreak in west Africa.‘G-20 members are committed to do what is necessary to ensure the international effort can extinguish the outbreak and address