DHAKA: Construction has begun on a giant observation tower in the heart of the Amazon basin to monitor climate change. The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory is expected to rise 325m from the ground. Its instruments will gather data on greenhouse gases, aerosol particles and the weather in

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet foreign ministers from around the world in Paris on Monday to discuss how to defeat Islamic State (IS) militants. French President Francois Hollande said the beheading of a British aid worker showed the world must act against IS. About

DHAKA: US law enforcement is investigating a new phenomenon of women from the American heartland joining Islamic State (IS) as president Barack Obama vows to cut off the militants' recruiting at home. At least three Somali families in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area have female relatives

DHAKA: New Delhi authorities cut power and water supplies to homes of former ministers and lawmakers, including India’s last federal civil aviation minister, after they ignored repeated eviction warnings. Reports said Sunday, according to The Straits Times. Congress Party ally and

DHAKA: Forty people have now died as a result of a building collapse at the megachurch of one of Nigeria’s most famous preachers and televangelists. The country’s main rescue body said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times. ‘It’s now 40 dead,’ Ibrahim Farinloye, southwest

DHAKA: A Syrian air strike on an Islamic State (IS) training camp in the jihadist-held east killed 17 militants and a child. A monitoring group said in a new toll Sunday, reports The Straits Times. The Saturday strike hit dormitories in the camp in the Euphrates valley town of Tibni in

DHAKA: Pope Francis married 20 couples on Sunday, some of whom had already lived together and had children, in the latest sign that the Argentine pontiff wants the Catholic church to be more open and inclusive. In the first wedding he has performed in his 18-month-old papacy, Pope

DHAKA: A boat sank on Sunday in bad weather off eastern Indonesia, killing at least 14 people and leaving 12 others missing. An Indonesia official said, reports The Straits Times. The long wooden boat carrying 35 passengers went down in the waters off Sula islands after it was hit by

DHAKA: An Islamic State terrorist, in a video released Saturday showing the execution of David Haines, threatened that British citizen Alan Henning could be the next victim. A masked man in the video said Henning would be killed if British prime minister David Cameron continued to

DHAKA: Around 930 French citizens or residents, including at least 60 women, are either actively engaged in jihad in Iraq and Syria or are planning to go there. French interior minister said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times. In an interview with ‘Le Journal de Dimanche’ weekly,

DHAKA: Australia will deploy military forces and aircraft to a global coalition in fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, responding to a request from the United States to become involved militarily in the conflict in Iraq and Syria.A 600-strong force comprising

DHAKA: The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed the beheading of a British aid worker on Saturday, an act slammed as ‘pure evil’ by UK prime minister David Cameron who vowed Britain would do all it could to catch the killers.President Barack Obama offered US support for

DHAKA: Ugandan forces arrested several terror suspects and recovered explosives in an operation to foil an "imminent" terrorist attack on the city of Kampala in Uganda, CNN reports. Meanwhile, the U.S. Embassy warned Americans there to stay indoors. The country's security forces have

DHAKA: British aid worker David Haines has been executed by ISIS militants, according to a video posted Saturday to a website associated with the group, making him the third Western captive to be killed by the Islamist extremist group in recent weeks.The ISIS video post showing

DHAKA: A ‘piecemeal’ World War III may have already begun with the current spate of crimes, massacres and destruction.Pope Francis has warned, reports the BBC.He was speaking during a visit to Italy’s largest military cemetery, where he was commemorating the centenary of World War

DHAKA: Sri Lankan rights activists have gone to the country’s highest court in a bid to stop the government summarily deporting Afghan, Iranian and Pakistani refugees.Their lawyer said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Six human rights defenders have petitioned the Supreme

DHAKA: Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Saturday accused Russian president Vladimir Putin of wanting to wipe out Ukraine as an independent country despite a truce deal.‘His aim is not just to take Donetsk and Lugansk,’ Yatsenyuk said at a conference in Kiev,

DHAKA: The US government has imposed new sanctions on major Russian banks, defence and energy companies, reports BBC.The measures are part of a joint effort with the European Union aimed at punishing Russia for what they say is its military intervention in Ukraine.They come despite a

DHAKA: Syrian government air raids on a rebel-held area near Damascus killed 42 people, including seven children.A monitoring group said this on Friday, giving an updated toll.Thursday’s air strikes were carried out in Douma, a satellite suburb northeast of the capital that has been

DHAKA: Al-Qaeda’s new South Asia branch has claimed responsibility for a raid on a Karachi naval yard that left a sailor and three attackers dead.They also added that they former military officials helped them.It is the first attack claimed by the fighter network’s new wing, whose