DHAKA: World leaders are due to arrive in Saudi Arabia to pay their respects in person after the death on Friday of King Abdullah. British prime minister David Cameron and French president Francois Hollande will be in Riyadh. The US delegation is led by vice-president Joe Biden. King

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia's Interior Minister, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, a close friend of the United States and a scourge of Islamist militants, will be the country's first king from the third generation of its ruling dynasty.King Salman moved swiftly to appoint Mohammed Deputy Crown

DHAKA: Leaders of the Muslim world and thousands of Saudi subjects paid their final respects to King Abdullah at a simple ceremony at a Riyadh mosque Friday before the late ruler was buried in an unmarked grave in a public cemetery.According to latimes.com, in accordance with royal

DHAKA: At least two persons, including a woman were killed, and 17 others injured on Friday in a bomb blast in the premises of civil court at Ara in India’s Bihar.Police officials said that a woman, who was killed in the blast, was carrying the crude bomb which suddenly went off

DHAKA: Nepal has plunged deeper into crisis after feuding politicians, throwing microphones and shoes, failed to meet a deadline to table a new constitution, seen as a key step to stability in the Himalayan state.Parliament Speaker, Subash Nembang, was forced to adjourn a late-night

DHAKA: The pro-Russian rebel leader in eastern Ukraine said his troops are on the offensive and he does not want truce talks with Kiev.Alexander Zakharchenko said his forces would push the front line back to the borders of Donetsk region. They are in control of the city of Donetsk,

DHAKA: South Korean President Park Geun-hye has nominated ruling party lawmaker Lee Wan Koo to replace Prime Minister Chung Hong-won.Lee Wan has been nominated nearly 10 months after Chung offered to resign over a ferry disaster that killed more than 300 people in April last year,

DHAKA: Thailand's legislators have voted to impeach former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and ban her from politics for five years.The move relates to her involvement in a controversial rice subsidy scheme.Earlier on Friday, the attorney general also announced that Ms Yingluck

DHAKA: A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific island of Vanuatu on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The quake struck 84 km north-northeast of the capital Port Vila.BDST: 1054 HRS, JAN 23, 2015

DHAKA: At least 16 people were killed when a bus overturned and caught fire in northwestern Mexico on Thursday.The local authorities said that which reports the NDTV.The bus was bound for the northern border city of Tijuana when it crashed on a road in Ciudad Obregon, the head of the

RIYADH: Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 79, is now officially the new Saudi king and Prince Muqrin Bin Abdulaziz is the new crown prince."His Highness Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and all members of the family and the nation mourn the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King

RIYADH: The king of Saudi Arabia Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud passed away early on Friday. He was 90. Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 79, becames the new Saudi king and Prince Muqrin Bin Abdulaziz is the new crown prince. "His Highness Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and all

DHAKA: Yemen’s President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and his Prime Minister, Khaled Baha, have resigned.The officials said this which reports the BBC.It comes amid an ongoing stand-off with Shia Houthi rebels.Houthi gunmen have a tight grip on the capital, Sanaa, and are holding a

DHAKA: US secretary of state John Kerry said that Islamic State’s momentum in Iraq had been halted or reversed and that US weapons for government forces would be arriving very shortly.“In recent months we have seen definitively momentum halted in Iraq and in some cases

DHAKA: The shelling of a bus and clashes in Ukraine’s separatist east left 34 people dead on Thursday as Kiev was forced to abandon its defense of Donetsk’s airport in one of the deadliest days of the nine-month war.In the worst incident, 13 civilians died when shelling hit a

DHAKA: An Egyptian court has ordered the release of Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, the sons of former president Hosni Mubarak, pending a retrial.The conviction of Mubarak and his sons was overturned on 13 January over legal procedures.The former president remains in a military hospital where he

DHAKA: Myanmar on Thursday said it would look into incendiary comments by the country’s most notorious hardline monk who branded a UN envoy a ‘whore’ after strong condemnation from the United Nation’s, but indicated it was unlikely to act against the cleric.Influential cleric

DHAKA: At least nine people have been killed by shelling at a bus stop in the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.Local authorities say, reports the BBC.The victims reportedly included bus passengers and someone in a nearby car.The deaths come after Ukraine, Russia, France and

DHAKA: Senior officials from 21 countries are gathering in London to discuss efforts to tackle the jihadist militant group, Islamic State (IS), in Syria and Iraq.Those taking part in the one-day conference include US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iraqi prime minister Haider

DHAKA: United States president Barack Obama will co-host Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s regular monthly radio phone-in show next week as part of his packed three-day visit to New Delhi.The announcement was made in a tweet by Modi, who called on listeners to send in their