DHAKA: At least 13 people were killed and several were feared trapped after an eight-story building collapsed in the western Cairo suburb of Matariya.The Egyptian police officials said this which reports Aljazeera.The officials said that eight residents of the building were also injured

DHAKA: More than 60 people were killed in two explosions at a crowded market in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday.The twin bomb hit the market in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, the sources said.Hospitals have been flooded with injured residents, reports Aljazeera.Market trader

DHAKA: The US town of Ferguson has seen rioting and looting after a jury decided not to bring charges over the killing of a black teenager.A police chief said violence in the suburb of St Louis, Missouri, was ‘probably much worse’ than on any night since the teenager’s death.St

DHAKA: An inquiry into the fire on board Navy submarine INS Sindhuratna in February this year has “found seven officers culpable of various acts of omissions and commissions”.Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar made the disclosure in Parliament on Tuesday.Parrikar said in his

DHAKA: A grand jury has decided not to charge a Missouri police officer over the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, reports BBC.Announcing the decision, state prosecutor Robert McCulloch said the jury had exhaustively examined the evidence.Brown's family said they were

DHAKA: The deadline for an Iran nuclear deal has been extended to the end of June after talks in Vienna failed to reach a comprehensive agreement.Diplomats say, reports the BBC.UK foreign secretary Philip Hammond said good progress had been made, but it was ‘not possible to get an

DHAKA: About 100 people were slaughtered last week in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the latest massacre to shake the restive region.Lawmakers told the media on Monday, reports The Straits Times.The carnage took place on Thursday near Beni in the North Kivu province,

DHAKA: Hong Kong authorities may start clearing the site in the Mong Kok district where pro-democracy protesters have camped out for more than a month in their ‘Occupy’ campaign to fight for universal suffrage.The protesters, who have been occupying a long stretch of Nathan Road in

DHAKA: Pakistan has the fastest growing nuclear weapons programme in the world and by 2020 it could have enough fissile material to produce more than 200 nuclear devices.A top American think tank has said, reports gulfnews.com.‘Though many states are downsizing their stockpiles, Asia

DHAKA: China has begun generating electricity from Tibet’s biggest ever hydropower project, state-run media reported, the latest dam development on Himalayan rivers that has prompted concern in neighbouring India.The first generating unit of the 9.6 billion yuan Zangmu Hydropower

DHAKA: Russia is set to lose around US$40 billion per year due to Western sanctions over Ukraine.Russia finance minister Anton Siluanov said Monday.‘We are losing around US$40 billion per year due to geopolitical sanctions and we are losing some US$90 to US$100 billion per year due to

DHAKA: Rescuers pulled 44 more bodies from a fast-flowing river in western Nepal where a bus crashed last week, hiking the death toll to 47.Police said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.Emergency workers found three bodies immediately after the crash in mountainous Jajarkot

DHAKA: Negotiators in Vienna, Austria, are set to make a final push to try to reach a deal on Iran's nuclear programme ahead of a 23:00 GMT deadline.They said earlier ‘serious gaps’ remained, suggesting that an extension could be agreed instead, reports the BBC.World powers - the

DHAKA: Pope Francis on Sunday named six new saints, including two from India, in a mass gathering tens of thousands of worshippers at Saint Peter’s Square.Some 5,000 Indians were among those attending the mass to see Francis canonise Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805-1871) and Euphrasia

DHAKA: A suicide bomber has killed at least 40 people at a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.A spokesman for the governor of Paktika province told the BBC that the attacker had detonated the bomb amid a crowd of people gathering for a game.About 50 people were

DHAKA: The death toll from a 5.9 magnitude earthquake that struck a remote part of China’s southwest rose to five on Sunday, as media reported the injured have all been successfully rescued.The quake struck 39km northwest of Kangding in the mountainous west of Sichuan province at 0855

DHAKA: The lower house of the Afghan parliament has overwhelmingly approved a security agreement allowing US and Nato troops to remain in the country.The deals provide legal protection for troops serving under a new Nato mission due to begin after combat operations formally end on 31

DHAKA: Boko Haram gunmen killed 48 fish vendors in Nigeria's restive Borno State, near the border with Chad.The head of the fish traders association told the media on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.‘Scores of Boko Haram fighters blocked a route linking Nigeria with Chad near the

DHAKA: Tunisians are set to vote in the country’s first presidential election since the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ that triggered uprisings across the region. More than 25 candidates are in the race, but incumbent Moncef Marzouki and anti-Islamist leader Beji Caid Essebsi are widely seen

DHAKA: A strong 6.2 magnitude earthquake in central Japan left 39 people injured, seven seriously, and wrecked homes in a popular ski resort. The government said Sunday, reports The Straits Times. The quake struck at 10.08pm local time (1308 GMT) Saturday at a depth of 10km at the