DHAKA: A series of drive-by shootings in the Californian city of Santa Barbara has left seven people dead. US police say, reports the BBC. The shootings took place near a student campus belonging to the University of California-Santa Barbara. The suspected gunman is among the dead.

DHAKA: Explosions and gunfire have been heard in the Somali capital Mogadishu as the parliament came under attack while MPs were meeting. The cause of the blasts was not immediately clear. Somalia’s first parliament of its own since the collapse of government in 1992 was sworn in two

DHAKA: An Iranian businessman convicted of masterminding a US$2.6 billion banking scam, the biggest fraud case in the country’s history, was hanged on Saturday. State media reported, says The Straits Times. Mahafarid Amir Khosravi was sent to the gallows in Tehran’s notorious Evin

DHAKA: The whereabouts of former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is unknown after she was detained by the military that seized power in a coup. ‘It is confirmed that she was detained by the military since she reported to the junta yesterday,’ a source in her Puea Thai party

DHAKA: Rebels in northern Mali have agreed to a ceasefire, two days after clashes with the army threatened to throw the country back into chaos. Three Tuareg rebel groups occupying the key northern town of Kidal signed the agreement after talks with African Union chairman Mohamed Ould

DHAKA: The Pope is due to arrive in Jordan at the start of a three-day visit to the Middle East which will also take him to Israel and the Palestinian territories. Pope Francis will first travel to Amman, where he will celebrate Mass in a stadium, and later meet Syrian refugees. The

DHAKA: A meteor shower late on Friday and early Saturday is captivating countless astronomers and amateur skywatchers with the promise of a falling-star show unlike any ever before seen. The Camelopardalids meteor shower could start for North American viewers at early as 10:30pm on

DHAKA: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will attend India’s prime minister designate Narendra Modi's swearing-in on Monday. "On the invitation of Prime Minister designate, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will make a day long visit to New Delhi," PML-N Spokesperson Siddiq

DHAKA: The Thai military on Friday tightened its grip on the politically unstable Southeast Asian nation, banning more than 150 prominent figures from leaving the country and threatening to arrest politicians who disobey its orders. Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was among

DHAKA: General Prayuth Chan-ocha has declared himself acting Prime Minister of Thailand until the new coup regime announced Thursday can find someone to serve in the post full time. Announcement No.10 of the National Peace and Order Maintaining Council (NPOMC) says General Prayuth, who

DHAKA: Russia's President Putin has said he will respect the outcome of Ukraine's presidential election on Sunday.Speaking at an economic conference in St Petersburg on Friday, Vladimir Putin also said he believed Ukraine had descended into "full-scale civil war".Meanwhile, pro-Russia

DHAKA: Thailand's ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra and a number of members of her family have been detained, as leaders of the nation's military coup tighten their grip on power. Ms Yingluck and scores of politicians from the deposed government had been told to report to a Bangkok army base.

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi is the sixth most followed leader on Twitter globally, according to a survey by Twiplomacy, a study of world leaders on the microblogging site.  Modi’s Twitter handle has 4,240,643 followers, with a weekly growth of 6.77 percent,

DHAKA: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal, who was arrested in a defamation case on Wednesday, will remain in jail till June 6 as he refused to sign a personal bond on Friday.  In a courtroom that was packed with his supporters, Kejriwal argued his own case.  Among those

DHAKA: The UN Security Council committee on al-Qaeda sanctions has blacklisted Nigeria's Boko Haram, a month after the armed group kidnapped hundreds of schoolgirls. Nigeria, which until recently had been reluctant to seek international help to combat Boko Haram, requested earlier this

DHAKA: Mortar fire has hit an election rally in support of President Bashar al-Assad in southern Syria, killing at least 20 people, state media and activists say. The attack happened as Assad supporters gathered in a tent in the city of Deraa on Thursday evening. President Assad was not

DHAKA: Thailand's former authority figures have reported to the new military junta after it summoned the entire deposed government and members of the politically influential Shinawatra family, following a coup. Yingluck Shinawatra, the former prime minister, and Niwattumrong

DHAKA: Qaiser Ali, a 19-year-old teenager from Lucknow, after handling "Prime Minister of India" the official twitter for India’s Prime Minister  by mistake for half an hour, shaked the world as ‘Half-an-Hour PM’. Later, he apologised for taking the handle, of course, reports the

DHAKA: The US has led widespread international criticism of a military takeover in Thailand as the South-East Asian nation spent its first night under curfew. US Secretary of State John Kerry said there was "no justification", and $10m in bilateral aid could be suspended. France and

DHAKA: Frostie, the ‘Snow-Goat’ baby is jollying happy now, after a sweet new set of wheels has given him some newfound freedom.The adorable snow goat was previously unable to walk.It happened after contracting a disease known as joint navel ill shortly after his birth, the Huffington