DHAKA: India’s frontrunner for prime minister Narendra Modi urged voters to turn out in record numbers to throw the scandal-plagued Congress party from power as a bitter, marathon election campaign drew to a close. Modi, from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, made his final appeal

DHAKA: The ruling African National Congress party (ANC) has won a landslide victory in South Africa's fifth democratic election, the country's Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has said. Addressing the country in a glitzy ceremony on Saturday evening in Pretoria, Pansy Tlakula,

DHAKA: Austrian drag act Conchita Wurst has been crowned the winner of the 59th annual Eurovision Song Contest held in Denmark's capital, Copenhagen. The singer, whose real name is Tom Neuwirth, won with the song Rise Like a Phoenix, collecting 290 points. The Netherlands finished

DHAKA: Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's two eastern regions are to hold "self-rule" referendums - a move condemned by Kiev and the West. Self-proclaimed leaders in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions are going ahead with the vote despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's call to

DHAKA: Campaigning has ended in India's marathon general election, two days before the final votes are cast. In the closing phase of the contest, several major parties held rallies in Uttar Pradesh, a battleground northern state which is among the last to vote. Rahul Gandhi, of the

DHAKA: The lawyer for a doctor accused of helping the US find Osama Bin Laden has told the BBC that he has quit the case after receiving frequent death threats. Lawyer Samiullah Afridi also cited US pressure on Pakistan for the release of Dr Shakil Afridi as another reason for his

DHAKA: At least 22 people have died at different locations near the Iraqi capital in a fresh wave of attacks, as the country waits for the results of recent elections to be announced. Police officials said the deadliest attack of the day happened on Saturday afternoon when a suicide

DHAKA: On the last day of campaigning in the world's largest election, Rahul Gandhi stepped into Narendra Modi’s chosen poll battlefield, Varanasi, and targeted him directly. ‘Modi ji please change your poster - say that you will respect women and stop sending the police or tapping

DHAKA: At least 17 persons including seven women were killed and five others injured today when a private bus they were traveling in fell into a deep gorge in Chamoli district in Uttarakhand state of India. Fifteen were killed on the spot and two succumbed to injuries on way to a

DHAKA: Sarajevo’s city hall, housing the national library, has been re-opened 22 years after it was destroyed by shelling during the Bosnian War. The iconic building was hit by a mortar and burned down during the Bosnian Serb siege of the city in 1992. It was restored to mark the

DHAKA: Afghanistan started using its first ever satellite on Saturday in a bid to boost its national broadcasting and telecommunications infrastructure as well as its international connectivity. Afghanistan’s telecommunications sector and a growing digital media industry are among the

DHAKA: A mini-sub hunting for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will be back in the search zone within days, an official said on Saturday, as the Australian ship carrying the device prepared to leave on the mission. Australian vessel Ocean Shield is carrying the US Navy Bluefin-21

DHAKA: US First Lady Michelle Obama has said the mass kidnap of Nigerian schoolgirls is part of a wider pattern of threats and intimidation facing girls around the world who pursue an education. She said she and her husband Barack Obama were ‘outraged and heartbroken’ over the

DHAKA: Tension was running at fever pitch in eastern Ukraine on Saturday on the eve of an independence referendum, as rebels briefly held several Red Cross staff on suspicion of espionage. While preparations were in full swing for the disputed vote in the two eastern regions of Donetsk

DHAKA: US First Lady Michelle Obama is to deliver her husband’s weekly presidential address to condemn last month’s abduction of Nigerian girls. First ladies normally refrain from outspoken foreign policy remarks, but Michelle has been a vocal campaigner for the release of more than

DHAKA: Thailand’s pro-government Red Shirts began massing on Saturday in Bangkok to challenge a bid by opposition protesters to install an unelected regime in power after the removal of the prime minister. The dismissal of premier Yingluck Shinawatra and nine ministers by the

DHAKA: The UN Security Council strongly condemned the abduction of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls, as the world body’s secretary general dispatched an envoy to help find them. The diplomatic moves came after Amnesty International said that Nigeria’s military had been warned of an

DHAKA: US embassy officers shot and killed two armed Yemeni civilians who tried to kidnap them in the capital Sanaa, a State Department official has said. Marie Harf, deputy spokesperson at the department, said in a statement to news agency AFP on Friday: "We can confirm that, last

DHAKA: US First Lady Michelle Obama is to deliver her husband's weekly presidential address to condemn last month's abduction of Nigerian girls. First ladies normally refrain from outspoken foreign policy remarks, but Mrs Obama has been a vocal campaigner for the release of more than 200

DHAKA: A hot air balloon burst into flames and crashed in Virginia on Friday night, prompting a search for the wreckage and the three people believed to be on board. The incident happened over Doswell, 25 miles north of Richmond, said Kathleen Bergen, spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation