DHAKA: When Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born, in 1927, in the sleepy little town of Aracataca, not far from Colombia’s Caribbean coast, there were certain established fixities in the world of letters reports — The Time.They said that the centers of gravity were Europe and North

DHAKA: Tweelve Nepalese guides have been killed while nine more are missing over an early-morning avalanche on the slopes of Mount Everest on Friday 6:30am.The Breaking News reports this at on Friday morning while there were nine deceased till the morning 8am according to The Huffington

DHAKA: At least 12 soldiers were killed and 12 others wounded in an attack on a military base in a restive area of northern Iraq.Thursday`s attack took place at the base outside the city of Mosul, about 360 kilometres northwest of Baghdad, when a suicide bomber detonated his

DHAKA: Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died on Thursday in Mexico.He was 87, says BBC.   Garcia Marquez was considered one of the greatest Spanish-language authors, best known for his masterpiece of magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude.The 1967

DHAKA: Russia, Ukraine, the US and the European Union have said that all sides have agreed to steps to "de-escalate" the crisis in eastern Ukraine. Their foreign ministers were speaking at the end of talks between Russia, Ukraine, the EU and US in the Swiss city of Geneva, says

DHAKA: Dozens of civilians sheltering in a UN base in the South Sudan town of Bor were killed in an attack by armed youths, reports BBC. Toby Lanzer, the UN`s top aid official in South Sudan, told the BBC that the youths broke through the gates and opened fire.UN peacekeepers returned

DHAKA: At least 10 soldiers have been killed and 12 others were wounded in an attack on a military base in a restive area of northern Iraq.Thursday’s attack took place at the base outside the city of Mosul, about 360 kilometres northwest of Baghdad, when a suicide bomber detonated his

DHAKA: London Underground workers are to take five days of strike action over Tube ticket office closures.The RMT Union has announced, reports the BBC.The row is about the closure of all 260 Tube ticket offices and 960 job cuts.Members will walk out from 21:00 BST on 28 April for two days

DHAKA: Mystery surrounds the fate of more than 100 teenage girls who were abducted from a school in the remote north-east of Nigeria.The military says all but eight of the 129 girls have escaped, but parents of the girls say many are still missing.It is thought Islamist militant group

DHAKA: Malaysia warned Thursday that the cost of the search for flight MH370’s wreckage in the vast depths of the Indian Ocean will be ‘huge’, the latest sobering assessment by authorities involved in the challenging effort.‘When we look at salvaging (wreckage) at a depth of 4.5

DHAKA: UK media is reporting that a 12-year-old has just delivered her 13-year-old boyfriend’s baby, making them the country’s youngest parents.Their daughter, who weighs 7 pounds, was reportedly born last weekend.She fell pregnant at 11, while still at primary school, shortly after

DHAKA: An oil slick sighted during the sea search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 did not come from the plane, officials said on Thursday, dashing hopes of finding a definitive answer to the fate of the jet.‘Preliminary analysis of the sample collected by ADV Ocean Shield has

DHAKA: Iran has neutralised half of its higher-enriched uranium stockpile, as per a deal agreed earlier this year.The world’s nuclear watchdog says, reports the BBC.The International Atomic Energy Agency has been checking Iran`s adherence to the deal, struck with six world powers.The

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused Ukraine’s new authorities of driving the country towards the abyss but said that dialogue was the only way out of the intensifying crisis.‘Only through dialogue, through democratic procedures and not with the use of armed

DHAKA: Rescuers worked frantically on Thursday to find 300 people, mostly schoolchildren, missing after a South Korean ferry capsized, with prospects of pulling survivors from the submerged vessel dimming as emotions boiled over among anguished relatives.Nine people were confirmed dead,

DHAKA: It walks and runs, even up and down stairs. It can open a bottle and serve a drink, and politely tries to shake hands with a stranger.Meet the latest Asimo, Honda’s humanoid robot.‘Hello New York! Thank you for coming today!’ the little guy chirped in English, the recorded

DHAKA: The Land Down Under cheered as the United Kingdom’s royal couple Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and their adorable baby Prince George arrived on Wednesday.After a rather wet and gloomy last day in New Zealand where Kate was seen boarding the plane with a blue

DHAKA: Ukrainian troops repelled an overnight attack on their base in the south-east city of Mariupol, killing three of the assailants and wounding 13.Ukraine interior minister Arsen Avakov said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.Around 300 people mounted the attack using guns and

DHAKA: Emergency services are continuing to search for nearly 300 people missing after a ferry carrying more than 470 sank off South Korea.Officials say 179 people have been rescued. Most of the passengers on board were students and teachers from the same high school on a field

DHAKA: Closing of infamous Abu Ghraib prison, situated at west of Baghdad is temporary and it might be reopened at anytime.The Huffington Post publishes a report on Wednesday that once the security situation in the surrounding area is stable Abu Ghraib will be reopened, an Iraqi Justice