DHAKA: A Pakistani hospital official says 20 students and one soldier have been killed in a Taliban attack on a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar.Jamil Shah, a spokesman for Lady Reading Hospital, says the killed soldier was a member of the Pakistani paramilitary forces.The

DHAKA: Six people have been shot dead and at least one other wounded in three locations near Philadelphia, officials in the US state of Pennsylvania say.Montgomery County police are seeking the suspected gunman, whom they named as Bradley William Stone, 35.They say he may be armed and

DHAKA: An investigation has been launched into the police operation which ended a siege in a cafe in Sydney, Australia.Two people died, along with the gunman, as police commandos stormed the cafe in Martin Place in the heart of Sydney early on Tuesday morning.The victims have been named

DHAKA: The gunman holding people hostage in a Sydney cafe has been identified as an Iranian refugee who was on bail facing a number of charges.Man Haron Monis, who was granted political asylum in Australia, was described by his former lawyer as an isolated figure, who was acting

DHAKA: A gunman holding three laborers hostage in the Saudi capital Riyadh shot dead a member of the security forces when police tried to free the captives.Police said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.The gunman was later arrested and the three laborers were freed, a police

DHAKA: Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said on Monday it was unclear if the siege at a Sydney cafe, where hostages are being held, was politically motivated. ‘We don’t yet know if this is politically motivated, although there are some indications that it might be,’ Abbott

DHAKA: Japan’s ruling coalition has won a new two-thirds majority in parliamentary elections seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policy.Japanese media reported that Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) retained its House of Representatives majority.The

DHAKA: At least 40 people have been taken hostage by at least one armed man at a Lindt cafe in the centre of Sydney on Monday.Lindt Australia executive says there are about 10 staff and up to 30 customers trapped in the cafe. Hundreds of armed police have sealed off the normally busy

DHAKA:  At least ten people were charred to death and another 12 got injured when a gas tanker caught fire and exploded after being hit by a truck on a highway near Beelpur village, 35 kilometers from here, late on Saturday night.The condition of two people among the injured is

DHAKA: At least 129 people drowned after a boat capsized on Thursday night on Lake Tanganyika in the south-east of Democratic Republic of Congo.A new official death toll said, The Straits Times publishes this report on Sunday.‘Rescue workers recovered a total of 129 bodies,’ an

DHAKA: Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe won comfortable re-election on Sunday in a snap poll he had billed as a referendum on his economic policies after early success faded into a recession.But a low turnout from unenthusiastic voters beset by a heavy snowfall could cast doubt on

DHAKA: Turkish police on Sunday launched a sweeping operation to arrest supporters of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rival, US-exiled imam Fethullah Gulen, including a raid on the offices of the Zaman daily, which is close to the cleric.Anti-terrorism police conducted early

DHAKA: Thousands of people have marched through the US capital, Washington DC, to protest against the recent killings of unarmed black people by police. Relatives of Michael Brown, shot dead in the Missouri town of Ferguson, and Eric Garner, who died being restrained in New York, were

DHAKA: Millions of Japanese people are voting in a snap election called by prime minister Shinzo Abe to boost support for his economic reforms. Voters will be choosing who sits in the 475-seat lower house of Japan’s parliament, the Diet. Recent surveys show Abe’s coalition is likely

DHAKA: United Nations members have reached an agreement to tackle climate change after negotiations ran into the weekend in the Peruvian capital Lima. The president of the meeting said delegates had approved a framework for setting national pledges. Details of a final deal are due to be

DHAKA: Heathrow Airport cancelled 38 flights on Saturday as it recovered from a computer glitch that wreaked havoc with the London airport system, the world’s busiest hub.‘There are 38 flights cancelled today as a result of yesterday (computer fault),’ said a Heathrow spokesman,

DHAKA: The UN has agreed to Sri Lanka’s request to delay a long-awaited report into alleged atrocities committed during the country’s 26-year civil war.The UN rights chief said he recommended the deferral of the report until September ‘to allow for a stronger and more

DHAKA: A Japanese woman has told Indian police she was raped by a tourist guide in the historic northern city of Jaipur, in the latest sex attack on a foreigner.An officer said Monday, reports The Straits Times.‘We have received a complaint from a Japanese tourist alleging rape by a

DHAKA: Hundreds of thousands voted with enthusiasm Saturday in a fiercely contested assembly election in Delhi of India in which both the BJP and AAP claimed victory.While balloting was initially slow in middle and upper middle class areas, polling centres in low income neighbourhoods

DHAKA: The leaders of Russia, France and Germany have agreed to work on a peace plan for the conflict in eastern Ukraine, and, in this regard, they are going to talk with Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko over telephone on Sunday.According to a report, published on the BBC, Russian