DHAKA: US president Barack Obama took on the role of talk show host, poking fun at himself during an appearance on Stephen Colbert’s satirical show.‘The guy is so arrogant, I bet he talks about himself in the third person,’ a grinning Obama said as he slipped into Colbert’s

DHAKA: Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai has told the BBC ahead of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday that she hopes to pursue a career in politics.She said that she may even aspire to be prime minister of Pakistan once she has completed her studies in the UK.Malala has been

DHAKA: Israeli air strikes on four high-rise buildings in the final days of this summer's conflict in Gaza amounted to war crimes.Amnesty International says, reports the BBC.Evidence suggested the destruction was ‘carried out deliberately and with no military justification’, a new

DHAKA: More than 150 protesters were arrested in California overnight after shutting down a major freeway in another outbreak of nationwide demonstrations against police use of deadly force on minorities.Across the other side of the country late on Monday, basketball stars in New York

DHAKA: Ten people including many high school students were killed when a bomb exploded aboard a bus in the southern Philippines on Tuesday.Military spokesmen said, reports The Straits Times.The bus operated by the Rural Transit company was traveling through the town of Maramag in the

DHAKA: Thailand’s Department of Land Transport on Tuesday said US taxi booking app maker Uber was operating illegally in the country and has ordered it to halt its services.‘They have to stop operations immediately,’ Director-General Thiraphong Rodprasert told reporters,

DHAKA: The slaughter of Africa’s elephants and the illegal trade in ivory in China are ‘out of control’, conservationists said Tuesday, with wild elephants potentially disappearing within a generation. Soaring quantities of ivory are being sold in rapidly growing numbers of shops

DHAKA: The death toll from a giant storm crossing the Philippines rose to 27 on Tuesday, the Red Cross said, but there was widespread relief after it brushed the capital without causing major damage.Most of the people killed were on the far eastern island of Samar, where Hagupit

DHAKA: Security has been stepped up at US facilities around the world ahead of the release of a report expected to reveal details of harsh CIA interrogations, the White House says. Embassies and other sites were taking precautions amid "some indications" of "greater risk", a spokesman

DHAKA: The UN has asked for $16.4bn for its aid operations in 2015, with the largest single sum - $7.2bn - going to help Syrian refugees. Its last annual humanitarian appeal was for $13bn, making the new request a record for the organisation. The request comes as aid agencies warn they

DHAKA: India Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to bring prosperity to Indian Kashmir and told people not to be intimidated against voting, as he hit the campaign trail Monday after a string of attacks in the region. Modi’s Hindu nationalist party is making an unprecedented bid for

DHAKA: China sentenced eight people to death for their roles in two knife and bomb attacks this spring in the country’s violence-plagued western region of Xinjiang. China state media reported on Monday, reports The Straits Times. In April, a knife and bomb attack at a train station in

DHAKA: An opposition party worker was shot dead in Pakistan on Monday, officials said, as hundreds of activists clashed with riot police armed with water cannon in the central city of Faisalabad. The opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (Pakistan Movement for Justice or PTI) led by

DHAKA: The Delhi city government said Monday it has banned Uber after a passenger accused one of the online taxi service’s drivers of raping her. ‘(The) Transport Department has banned all activities relating to providing any transport service by the www.Uber.com with immediate

DHAKA: EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini is in Turkey to urge it to participate fully in the fight against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria.Mogherini and other top EU officials will urge Turkey to stop the flow of foreign fighters across its borders.She will emphasise

DHAKA: Typhoon Hagupit has weakened as it continues to slowly sweep across the Philippines, causing some damage.At least three people have been killed since the storm made landfall on Saturday but it does not appear to have been as severe as many had feared.Around a million people have

DHAKA: At least 17 people were killed, 50 injured as an overcrowded bus has plunged off a mountain road in Nepal.Police official Kesh Bahadur Shahi said Monday that the bus veered off the road near Pokharakada village Sunday night and rolled 600 meters (about 2,000 feet) down a

DHAKA: At least 70 people were killed as a boat carrying African migrants has sunk off Yemen’s al-Makha port in western coast.The Yemeni officials said this which reports the BBC.The boat, carrying mostly Ethiopian migrants, sank off due to strong winds and rough waves, security

DHAKA: A woman in India says she was raped by a taxi driver after booking the cab using the popular Uber smartphone app.The 26-year-old from Delhi told police she dozed off in the taxi and when she woke up the vehicle was parked in a secluded part of the capital.A medical examination

DHAKA: A majority of Germans want Angela Merkel to run for a fourth term as Chancellor and nearly three in four believe she would like to remain in office beyond 2017, when her current term ends.A new poll shows, reports The Straits Times.Last year some leading German commentators