DHAKA: The World Health Organization is to "ramp up" efforts to prevent Ebola spreading beyond the three countries most affected by the deadly virus.Fifteen African countries are being prioritised, top WHO official Isabelle Nuttall told a Geneva news conference.They will receive more

DHAKA: The grim search for missing hikers and bodies buried under snow continued Thursday against the dramatic backdrop of Nepal's Himalayas, as officials confirmed that at least 27 people had died in an exceptionally heavy snowfall.Rescue crews combed the high altitude paths and

DHAKA:  At least 36 people have been killed in a series of car bomb and mortar attacks in Shia areas of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.A suicide car bomb hit an army checkpoint near a restaurant in the northern district of Talibiya on Thursday afternoon, killing nine people, officials

DHAKA: Police and protesters in Hong Kong have scuffled for a second night as a group of demonstrators tried to re-occupy a main road near government buildings. Police used pepper spray to try and clear the area and arrested two people they said were obstructing officers, reports the

DHAKA: US-led air strikes have killed several hundred Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters around the Syrian town of Kobane, the Pentagon said, but it cautioned that the town near Turkey's border could still fall to the Sunni rebel group.The US-led coalition launched

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has played down the chance of an Ebola outbreak in the US, saying the risk of Americans getting the virus was "extremely low".He was speaking after a second US nurse became infected after treating a Liberian who died a week ago in Dallas, reports

DHAKA: An Indian was among 21 trekkers killed while 85 others remained missing after being hit by one of the worst snow storms in western Nepal on Wednesday. Sixteen people – Nine Nepalese, three Polish, three Israelis and one Vietnamese – were killed and as many as 19 others were

DHAKA: Tobacco companies in India will have to stamp health warnings across 85 percent of the surface of cigarette packs and other products, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday, joining nations such as Thailand and Australia with stringent marketing rules.Up to 900,000 Indians die

DHAKA: Moscow has thrown down the gauntlet to Australian prime minister Tony Abbott after he threatened to ‘shirtfront’ Russian president Vladimir Putin at the Group of 20 summit next month over the loss of Australian lives in the MH17 plane crash.Abbott ramped up the rhetoric

DHAKA: Nine trekkers – eight foreigners and a local man – have been killed in a snowstorm and avalanche in Nepal’s Himalayas, officials said on Wednesday, updating the death toll from four.‘A chopper search has located the bodies of five people, including four Canadians and an

DHAKA: Police arrested 37 men and eight women for illegal assembly during a clear-out operation at Lung Wo Road in downtown Hong Kong early Wednesday morning. Despite witnesses saying some protesters were injured in the clashes, Senior Superintendent Tsui Wai Hung said that no protesters

DHAKA: The death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak has risen to 4,447, with the large majority of victims in West Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) says, reports the BBC. WHO assistant director-general Bruce Aylward also said there could be up to 10,000 new cases a week

DHAKA: Senior military officials from the two Koreas are holding talks for the first time in seven years, reports BBC quoting South Korea's Yonhap news agency. The news agency, citing an unnamed source, said the talks began at 10:00 (01:00GMT) at the truce village of Panmunjom in the

DHAKA: Military leaders from more than 20 countries have met in the United States to discuss how to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as US and Russia announced an agreement to share intelligence on the armed rebel group.US President Barack Obama met on Tuesday

DHAKA: Police in Hong Kong have clashed with pro-democracy protesters as they cleared an underpass near the city government headquarters. Hundreds of police officers wearing riot gear used pepper spray to disperse the protesters, and arrested dozens of people Police said Lung Wo Road

DHAKA: Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State (IS) say they have recaptured a strategically important hilltop west of Kobane on Syria’s border with Turkey.The advances were made after a series of air strikes by the US-led coalition, reports the BBC.The hill, Tall Shair, was captured

DHAKA: Turkish F-16 and F-4 warplanes have bombed Kurdistan Workers party (PKK) rebel targets in Hakkari province near the Iraqi border.Turkish media report, says the BBC.It is the first significant air raid on the PKK since the rebel group declared a ceasefire in March 2013.Hurriyet

DHAKA: Senior Pakistani and Indian military officials spoke Tuesday by hotline after days of intense cross-border firing in the disputed region of Kashmir heightened tensions.At least 20 civilians have been killed and thousands of people on both sides of the de facto border in Kashmir

DHAKA: Two men were killed and one remains missing after powerful typhoon ‘Vongfong’ pounded Japan this week, officials said Tuesday, the latest storm to hit the disaster-prone archipelago. The typhoon churned through eastern Japan early Tuesday after hitting Okinawa over the weekend

DHAKA: Twelve people have been sentenced to death for organizing attacks that left dozens of people dead in the restive western Chinese province of Xinjiang earlier this year, CNN reports.  The incident -- described by authorities as an "organized and premeditated" terror attack --