DHAKA: Zambian vice-president Guy Scott has been named acting leader following the death of president Michael Sata.Presidential elections to choose a permanent successor will be held within 90 days, defence minister Edgar Lungu said.Scott becomes Africa’s first white head of state since

DHAKA: More than 100 people are believed to have been killed on Wednesday in a landslide in hilly south-central Sri Lanka.The country’s disaster management minister Mahinda Amaraweera said, reports the BBC.‘More than 100 people are believed to have died,’ the minister told the

DHAKA: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has had surgery to remove a cyst from his ankle, according to South Korean intelligence.A spy agency briefing to lawmakers on Tuesday said that a foreign doctor operated on Kim in September or October, the BBC publishes this report on

DHAKA: Ukraine and Russia were set on Wednesday to resume crunch EU-mediated gas talks aimed at ending a months-long supply cut that threatens to hit swathes of Europe this winter.The latest negotiations in Brussels come a day after Russia stirred tensions with its war-torn neighbour

DHAKA: Rescuers are losing hope that 18 workers, trapped underground at a coal mine in southern Turkey, can be saved.Part of the pit flooded while the miners were working. They are said to be stuck 300m underground, reports the BBC.The accident comes less than six months after 301 workers

DHAKA: Schools in China’s mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, where a series of attacks has left hundreds dead in recent months, said they would actively discourage religious practice at home.China’s state-run media reported on Wednesday, according to The Straits Times.Principals at

DHAKA: At least 10 people are dead and hundreds are missing following a landslide in central Sri Lanka.Disaster officials tell the BBC.The landslide, which came after heavy monsoon rains, engulfed about 140 houses in Badulla district, officials said.Security forces have been mobilised in

DHAKA: Zambian president Michael Sata has died at the age of 77 after receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness.Family sources and Zambian media say, the BBC publishes this report on Wednesday.President Sata, who was being treated in the UK for the past week, died on Tuesday night,

DHAKA: Scientific theories including the ‘Big Bang’ believed to have brought the universe into being 13.7 billion years ago and the idea that life developed through a process of evolution do not conflict with Catholic teaching.Pope Francis said on Tuesday, The Straits Times

DHAKA: About 80 Iraqi Peshmerga fighters have arrived in Turkey enroute to the besieged Syrian town of Kobane to help fellow Kurds in their battle against the ISIL. They flew into the airport at Urfa and are bound for Suruc on the border with Syria. Another convoy of 70 fighters is

DHAKA: Afghanistan and China pledged a new long-term partnership with each other Thursday as Kabul’s new president Ashraf Ghani began a four-day visit while NATO combat troops prepare to withdraw from his country.Ghani, once a US-based academic, was sworn in as Afghanistan’s new

DHAKA: Germany’s foreign minister called Tuesday for a ‘vow of solidarity’ from the international community for millions of Syrian refugees and the countries such as Lebanon struggling to host them.Ahead of a one-day conference at his ministry in Berlin, Frank-Walter Steinmeier

DHAKA: Hong Kong democracy activists on Tuesday marked one month of mass protests, calling on supporters to gather for an evening rally wearing the masks they have used to ward off police tear gas and pepper spray. Organisers striving to inject new momentum into the movement told crowds

DHAKA: In the fight against Ebola, Australia has said: No thanks, CNN reports on Tuesday.  Immigration Minister Scott Morrison announced "strong controls" on arrivals from West African countries affected by cases of the deadly disease. Telling Australia's parliament during a question

DHAKA: Three people were killed and nearly a dozen injured in West Bengal's Birbhum district during violent clashes between alleged supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress and BJP, ndtv.com reports on Tuesday.  Video footage aired on channels showed scores of armed assailants

DHAKA: Al-Qaeda-affiliated militants and other Syrian rebel groups have attacked the government-held city of Idlib, briefly seizing several official buildings.  The Nusra Front said its fighters killed dozens of government soldiers before being pushed back. The Syrian government has

DHAKA: Hoax makers continued to create confusion and fear as they said that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the US allegedly confirmed that the Earth would suffer six days of darkness in the last month of 2014. The Web site Huzlers.com identified the dark days

DHAKA: The cyclonic storm 'Nilofer', which originated in the Arabian Sea, has now intensified and is likely to make a landfall on October 31 near Naliya village in Kutch district, the Meteorological Department said on Sunday. 'Nilofer' has intensified into a 'very severe cyclonic storm'

DHAKA: Syrian rebels led by Al-Qaeda loyalists launched a major assault on the government-held city of Idlib Monday in a bid to consolidate their control over the northwest.A monitoring group said, reports The Straits Times.Rebels seized control of most of Idlib province early in the

DHAKA: British prime minister David Cameron was bundled into his official car by his bodyguards on Monday after a member of the public ran into him in what looked like a serious security breach, video footage showed.The footage showed the man run directly towards Cameron, who was