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

DHAKA: Tablets linked to the deaths of more than a dozen women who visited a sterilisation camp in eastern India are likely to have contained a chemical compound commonly used in rat poison.A senior official in Chhattisgarh state said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Preliminary

DHAKA: A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck 150 kilometers (93 miles) north-northwest off the coast of Kota Ternate, Indonesia, on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake struck at 10:31 a.m. local time at a depth of 47 kilometers (29.2 miles), according to the USGS. No

DHAKA: British Prime Minister David Cameron has outlined plans to seize passports from British nationals linked to armed groups and stop them returning from fighting overseas.Cameron has also proposed landing bans on airlines that fail to comply with London's no-fly lists."We will

DHAKA: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said constitutional rules which bar her from running for president because her sons are half British are "unfair, unjust and undemocratic".At a news briefing with US President Barack Obama in Yangon, she said the reform process in

DHAKA: Israel eased restrictions at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque on Friday after US Secretary of State John Kerry announced agreement on steps to reduce tensions at the flashpoint compound.The site, which is holy to Jews as well as Muslims, has been the focus of months of unrest in

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has defended plans to use his overriding executive powers to push through changes to the nation’s immigration system.He said Congress had been given ample opportunity to come up with its own plan but had failed to act, reports the BBC.Republicans in

DHAKA: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said constitutional rules which bar her from running for president because her sons are half British are ‘unfair, unjust and undemocratic’.At a news briefing with US President Barack Obama in Yangon, she said the reform process

DHAKA: The world's tallest man has met the world's smallest man for the first time.At 8ft 3in, it was a new high for Sultan Kösen to meet the world's shortest living man Chandra Bahadur Dangi at an event in London, reports The Telegraph.It is the first time the pair has met and their

DHAKA: Last weekend America announced that it was sending more troops to Iraq, Russia allegedly sent more troops into Ukraine and president Barack Obama set off for Beijing.Ask policymakers in Washington which of these parts of the world should be America’s top priority and the

DHAKA: Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond will step down as leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) at its annual conference on Friday after Scots voted against independence in September.The head of the party for nearly 20 years and first minister for seven years, Salmond

DHAKA: Lightning has the power to spark wildfires and kill, and scientists said Thursday that climate change may lead to 50 percent more of it by century’s end.The report in the US journal Science is based on measurements of precipitation and cloud buoyancy, applied to 11 different

DHAKA: Hong Kong democracy protest leaders said they will head to Beijing on Saturday in hopes of bringing their demands for political reform to the Chinese authorities, but there are worries they will not be allowed into the country.Protesters, spearheaded by the Hong Kong Federation of