DHAKA: US president Barack Obama on Sunday said new international sanctions set to come into force against Russia would send a message that it must stop its ‘provocations’ in eastern Ukraine. ‘It is important for us to take further steps sending a message to Russia that this kind

DHAKA: Two leading popes of the 20th Century, John Paul II and John XXIII, are to be declared saints at an unprecedented open-air ceremony in Rome on Sunday. A Mass co-celebrated by Pope Francis and his predecessor Benedict will be witnessed by one million pilgrims and a vast TV and

DHAKA: A 6.7 magnitude earthquake has struck 40 kilometres northwest of Port Alice at a depth of 22 kilometres, the Pacific Tsunami Information Centre reports.Authorities are still evaluating the risk of a local tsunami but have already determined a widespread destructive tsunami threat

DHAKA: Stakes are high for the Congress and the BJP and a number of other parties like AIADMK, DMK, NCP and Shiv Sena as 117 constituencies go to polls in yet another substantial round of polling in the Lok Sabha elections.Over 18 crore voters in 11 states and union territory of

DHAKA: Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have announced a reconciliation deal after a meeting in the Gaza Strip.They have agreed to begin negotiations to form a unity government within the coming weeks.It comes as peace talks between the Fatah party of Palestinian president

DHAKA: More than a week after a South Korean ferry carrying 476 people capsized and sank, North Korea finally voiced its condolences Wednesday for the victims of the disaster, including the many schoolchildren who died.The message was sent between the two Koreas’ Red Cross organisations

DHAKA: Pakistan said Wednesday it was ‘encouraged’ by comments from arch rival India’s election frontrunner Narendra Modi who stressed cooperation with foreign governments if he was elected prime minister.Hindu nationalist hardliner Modi and his opposition Bharatiya Janata Party

DHAKA: The US will deploy about 600 troops for training exercises in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to reassure NATO and regional allies adjacent to Russia.A pro-Russian activist walks in front a barricade set up outside the regional administrative building in the eastern Ukrainian

DHAKA: Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday gave prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra more time to submit her defence against allegations of abuse of power which could see her removed from office.The premier, who has faced a series of legal challenges to her tenure as well as

DHAKA: Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Ukraine is "on the verge of civil war" after Kiev sent in troops against pro-Russia separatists.Putin, in a phone call to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, described the move as a "sharp escalation".     Ukraine announced the

DHAKA: Australia`s most populous state New South Wales Premier Barry O`Farrell has announced his resignation after failing to declare a gift of A$3,000 ($2,800; £1,680) wine.Barry O`Farrell admitted to a "massive memory fail" after telling a corruption inquiry that he never received the

DHAKA: At least six people were killed and twelve injured in a fire incident at a passenger bus in India`s southern state of Karnataka on Wednesday, says BBC.                     The bus, carrying 29 passengers, was travelling from Davanagere to Bangalore, when a leak

DHAKA: The world has a likely chance of meeting the UN’s warming limit of two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) if it cuts annual greenhouse gas emissions 40-70 percent by 2050, especially from energy.A top expert panel said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.The longer it

DHAKA: Malaysia’s acting transport minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein has refuted a front-page report of a local newspaper which said that the co-pilot of the MH370 aircraft had made a telephone call when it was flying low near Penang.Hishammuddin said by right, he should have

DHAKA: Royal watchers were scrutinizing the duchess of Cambridge on her New Zealand tour on Sunday, after husband Prince William appeared to hint a second baby is on the way.The royals’ eight-month-old son Prince George, third in line to the British throne, has been the star of their

DHAKA: The New York Senate rejected a bill Monday that would allow immigrants in the country illegally to access state financial aid for college.With 32 votes needed to pass, the measure came up two votes short with 30 in support and 29 against.Had it passed, New York would have become

DHAKA: Relatives of the Chinese passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight have threatened a hunger strike if the Malaysian authorities fail to provide more accurate information.Families vented their anger at a meeting with the airline in Beijing, reported BBC.Officials in

DHAKA: We`ve all seen the films where an asteroid hurtles towards our planet, threatening civilisation.What`s less well known is that menacing space rocks sometimes come in twos, BBC reported.Researchers have outlined some of the best evidence yet for a double space impact, where an

DHAKA: The turn that diverted the missing Malaysian Airlines plane off its flight path was programmed into the aircraft’s computer navigation system, probably by someone in the cockpit.The New York Times reported late Monday, The Straits Times publishes the report on Tuesday.That

DHAKA: France’s foreign minister Laurent Fabius has said that leaders of the Group of Eight world powers have suspended Russia’s participation in the club amid tensions over Ukraine and Russia’s incursion into Crimea.The other seven members of the group had already suspended