DHAKA: An earthquake struck late Saturday off Papua New Guinea’s eastern coast with a preliminary magnitude of 7.5.The US Geological Survey said, reports CNN.The quake struck at 11:27pm and occurred at a depth of 19 miles, the USGS said.It was centered 47 miles southwest of Panguna,

DHAKA: Egyptian leftist Hamdeen Sabbahi on Saturday submitted the documents required to run in next month’s presidential election, in which he is likely to be the only rival to former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.Sabbahi is currently General Sisi’s sole challenger after lawyer

DHAKA: Rescuers have recovered the body of another mountain guide after an ice avalanche on the lower slopes of Mount Everest, bringing the death toll to at least 13 in the deadliest accident on the world’s highest mountain.Officials said that Saturday’s recovery of the body still

DHAKA: A majority of inhabitants in Ukraine’s pro-Russian protest hub Donetsk do not want to join Russia but consider the government in Kiev to be illegitimate, according to a poll published on Saturday.52.2 percent of people questioned in the region, the focal point of separatist

DHAKA: Unknown gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on Hamid Mir in Karachi on Saturday, injuring the senior reporter and television anchorperson.Reports said the incident took place on Sharae Faisal near Natha Khan area when the gunmen opened fire on his vehicle around 5:30pm, reports

DHAKA: A drone strike in Yemen killed at least 15 people on Saturday, including 12 suspected al Qaeda militants, three Yemeni Defense Ministry officials told.CNN publishes this report.The strike occurred in the al-Hazemiyah district of al-Baitha province, Yemeni officials said.The

DHAKA: Australian officials supervising the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 said on Saturday that an underwater search for the black box recorder based on ‘pings’ possibly from the device could be completed in five to seven days.A US Navy deep-sea autonomous

DHAKA: Four French journalists were found by Turkish soldiers on the border with Syria on Saturday after being abducted by the rebel group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria last June.Journalists Nicolas Henin, Pierre Torres, Edouard Elias and Didier Francois were found

DHAKA: Russia is ready to offer most wide support in settlement of the Ukrainian political crisis.Russia’s deputy foreign minister Grigory Karasin said during a meeting with Ukraine’s presidential candidate Oleg Tsarev.Russian foreign ministry reports on Saturday, says The Voice of

DHAKA: Death toll climbs to 32 in South Korea ferry tragedy till Saturday noon that sank 3 days ago, though the captain of the ferry said ‘sorry’ to the people of South Korea.CNN publishes this report on Thursday.It said that Coast guard spokesman Kim Jae-in say they`ve found four

DHAKA: Another 14 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists in the northeast have escaped, leaving 85 missing on Saturday after an attack that has sparked global outrage.A Nigerian official said, reports The Straits Times.The unprecedented mass abduction of 129 teenage girls

DHAKA: A deadly clash kills Five Chinese civilians and two Vietnamese border guards on late Friday during a shootout between Vietnamese border guards and Chinese citizens, reports The New York Times.The daily said that the incident happened when Chinese citizens were trying to enter

DHAKA: The underwater search for black boxes from the missing Malaysia Flight MH370 is at a critical juncture.Malaysia’s Defence Minister and Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said on Saturday.A lot rests on what the mini-submarine scouring a stretch of the Indian Ocean

DHAKA: Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has called for unity in a new interview amid widening divisions with a rival jihadist organisation rooted in the Syrian civil war.The interview, which the SITE monitoring service dated to between February and April, was released after the Islamic

DHAKA: Rescuers searched Mount Everest for bodies on Saturday as authorities ruled out hope of finding any more survivors from an avalanche that killed at least 12 Nepalese guides in the deadliest accident ever on the world’s highest peak.Four sherpas were still missing from Friday’s

DHAKA: The captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized three days ago was reportedly arrested early Saturday, as divers overcame strong currents and near zero visibility to enter the submerged vessel for the first time.A team of police and prosecutors had sought on Friday arrest

DHAKA: Lee Joon-seok, Captain of the South Korean sunken ferry Sewol, said sorry and sought apology to his nation and to the bereaved families those lost or are yet to find their dear ones, reports Yonhap News Agency.Captain Lee, 52, said, "I am really sorry and deeply ashamed. I don`t

DHAKA: A teacher rescued from the capsized South Korean ferry has been found hanged on Friday afternoon, reports Wall Street Journal.The deceased was identified as Kang Min-gyu, 52, was a part of more than 300 teachers and students on board the Sewol ferry and was reported missing on

DHAKA: The Guardian published ‘five must reads’ of Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who died on Thursday.They said this Nobel Lariat found his voice with his 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.We round up the key texts from the master of magic

DHAKA: Just take an hour and another half to lure someone to your side and make him/her fall in love with you-- Sounds implausible? It’s not.Science has proved that 90 minutes is the perfect time to get two hearts pounding to a single beat.Cosmopolitan reports that a US study introduced