DHAKA: Kenyan police have arrested the governor of the coastal Lamu district in connection with three recent massacres in which over 60 people were killed. Officers said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times. Governor Issa Timamy was arrested late on Wednesday in connection with

DHAKA: A senior Thai general has told the BBC that last month’s military coup had not been planned in advance. It comes after an opposition leader claimed the army had been discussing overthrowing the government for years. Lt Gen Chatchalerm Chalermsukh also said those detained by the

DHAKA: The underwater search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is moving to an area farther south in the southern Indian Ocean, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said Thursday. Describing the next phase of the hunt for the missing plane as a "very challenging and complex

DHAKA: Australian authorities most likely will announce the next search area for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Thursday, a senior Malaysian official told CNN on condition of anonymity. The search area will be "refined," rather than brand new, and still will be in the southern Indian

DHAKA: An explosion rocked a parking lot at a crowded plaza in Nigeria's capital, killing 21 people and injuring 17 others, authorities said. The blast happened about 4pm Wednesday in Abuja's "ever-busy Emab Plaza ... at the peak of business," said Ezekiel Manzo, spokesman for Nigeria's

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the fourth most "followed" world leader on Twitter, has overtaken the White House in terms of number of followers on the microblogging site, an annual global study of world leaders Thursday revealed. According to Twiplomacy, a study conducted

DHAKA: India external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday spoke to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee about Sushma’s two-day trip in Bangladesh. According to official sources, Swaraj made a call to Mamata to ‘touch-base’ and tell her about the visit during which the

DHAKA: An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck off the coast of the Philippine island of Luzon on Wednesday, around 400km from Manila, the capital. The United States Geological Survey said, reports The Straits Times. The quake at a depth of 77km, hit at 1152 GMT. There were no immediate

DHAKA: Al Qaeda’s Syrian offshoot on Wednesday made an oath of loyalty to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant at a key town on the Iraqi border. A monitor said, reports Hindustan Times. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the merger is significant because it opens the

DHAKA: A team of astronomers has identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected. This ancient stellar remnant is so cold that its carbon has crystallised, forming, in effect, an earth-sized diamond in space. It is likely its age is the same as of the Milky Way,

DHAKA: China on Wednesday accused the Philippines of creating tension in the region and urged Manila to show ‘sincerity’ in upholding stability after president Benigno Aquino welcomed Japan’s more assertive military policy. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe made it clear on

DHAKA: At least 100 Taliban militants have been killed in fighting around four military checkpoints in southern Afghanistan. Local officials say, reports the BBC. Five days of clashes in Sangin district in Helmand province left 35 civilians and at least 21 Afghan troops dead. Tribal

DHAKA: Iraq prime minister Nouri Maliki has rejected calls for a national salvation government to help counter the offensive by jihadist-led Sunni rebels. Such calls represented a ‘coup against the constitution and an attempt to end the democratic experience’, he warned, reports the

DHAKA: At least 200 passengers were forced to spend Tuesday night in a Paris airport after an ongoing air-traffic controllers’ strike disrupted their flights to Spain and Portugal. An airport source said the passengers, most of whom had been due to travel with low-cost airline Vueling,

DHAKA: Proposals by radical Buddhist monks to criminalise inter-faith marriage in Myanmar face strong opposition from women’s rights groups in a tussle over the nation’s religious identity that has sparked international alarm. Buddhist nationalists, feeding off the fear and

DHAKA: When Kiab turned 16, her brother promised to take her to a party in a tourist town in northern Vietnam. Instead, he sold her to a Chinese family as a bride. The ethnic Hmong teenager spent nearly a month in China until she was able to escape her new husband, seek help from local

DHAKA: Unidentified gunmen on Tuesday late night opened fire on a passenger plane landing at Peshawar’s Bacha Khan airport, killing a woman and injuring two flight stewards on board, Dawn reported.  The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing PK-756, with 196 passengers on board,

DHAKA: The first US troops deployed to assist the Iraqi army in combating a growing Sunni militant insurgency have arrived and begun work, said the Pentagon.    Nearly half the 300 special operations soldiers promised by US President Barack Obama are in Baghdad or on the front lines of

DHAKA: The Ukrainian military says one of its helicopters has been shot down by pro-Russian rebels in the east, killing all nine people on board. It says the Mi-8 helicopter was hit by a rocket shortly after take-off outside the rebel-held city of Sloviansk. It comes a day after the

DHAKA: At least four passengers were killed and eight injured when the Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express derailed at Golden Ganj station near Chapra early on Wednesday. 12 coaches were derailed in the incident at around 2:10 am hours on Wednesday, Railway spokesperson Anil Saxena said.