DHAKA: Malaysia’s Cabinet has approved the appointment of an international investigation team to look into the cause of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.‘The main purpose of the international investigation team is to evaluate, investigate and determine the actual

DHAKA: Brunei has postponed the introduction of tough Islamic criminal punishments that were due to begin on Tuesday.Brunei said in October that it would introduce Sharia punishments including death by stoning for adulterers and the severing of limbs for theft.Assistant Director of the

DHAKA: The US is ‘running the show’ in Ukraine, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said.Lavrov told Russia Today it was ‘quite telling’ that Kiev had re-launched its anti-terror operation against pro-Russian gunmen during a visit by US vice-president Joe Biden.Kiev and the

DHAKA: Barack Obama will become the first US president to visit Malaysia in nearly 50 years this weekend, seeking to put decades of uneasy relations behind him as both cast wary eyes on a rising China.Mindful of America’s perennial image problem in the Islamic world, Obama, who visits

DHAKA: The US has warned Russia to tone down its aggressive rhetoric on Ukraine, or face further sanctions.US Secretary of State John Kerry told his Russian counterpart over the phone that Moscow must call for pro-Russian gunmen to lay down their weapons.Kiev and the West say Moscow

DHAKA: Sixty percent of underground water in China which is officially monitored is too polluted to drink directly, state media have reported, underlining the country’s grave environmental problems.Water quality measured in 203 cities across the country last year rated ‘very poor’

DHAKA: A month and a half ago -- 46 days -- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished over the southern Indian Ocean.The milestone is a somber one because it now allows attorneys to move in. There`s a 45-day federal law that says American lawyers have to wait that long to reach out to a

DHAKA: The total known death toll from the South Korean capsized ferry has now reached 121, as more bodies were brought back to Paengmok Port on Tuesday night.Of the 479 passengers and crew on board, only 174 people have been rescued and 181 remain missing, presumed drowned.Of those

DHAKA: Violent protests have broken out in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro following the death of a young man allegedly beaten by police.Main streets through the tourist area of Copacabana were closed as angry demonstrators from a nearby favela set barricades of tyres alight.The

DHAKA: The US has urged North Korea not to threaten regional peace by conducting new nuclear tests, saying it is monitoring the Korean peninsula because of Pyongyang`s history of taking "provocative actions".White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Tuesday that Washington was

DHAKA: Ukraine`s acting president has ordered a military operation against pro-Kremlin separatists in the east of the country, after the body of a local politician from his own party was found showing signs of torture."I demand the resumption of effective counter-terrorism measures to

DHAKA: Suicide bombings and other attacks across Iraq have killed at least 33 people and wounded another 80, in a surge of violence as the country counts down to parliamentary elections.Monday`s deadliest attack took place south of Baghdad in the town of Suwayrah, where a suicide bomber

DHAKA: A Saudi prince poached over 2,100 internationally protected houbara bustards in 21-day hunting safari in Chagai of Balochistan in Pakistan indulging illegal hunting in protected areas, reports Pak English daily Dawn on Tuesday.The daily made the report based on as report titled

DHAKA: The confirmed death toll from the South Korean ferry that capsized last week has passed 100, as divers recovered more bodies from the sunken hull.A total of 104 people are now known to have died, but another 198 are missing, presumed trapped inside the vessel.The ferry tipped over

DHAKA: Bharathi Kannamma, a 53-years-old Indian transgender is campaigning in her southern hometown for a seat in parliament, reports the Dawn.They said, ‘with a tight budget and a humble auto-rickshaw, the pioneering Indian transgender wants seat at Lok Sabha just days after the

DHAKA: Just days away from the beginning of the busiest climbing season of the year at Mount Everest, expeditions are unsure whether climbs on the world`s highest peak will go ahead or not.They said it is sure that climbs on the world`s highest peak will not be possible for this season as

DHAKA: Despite a brutal civil war that has killed more than 1,50,000 people, Syria will hold presidential elections on June 3, the country’s parliamentary speaker said on Monday, reports Al Arabiya News.              It says that ‘elections for the president of the Syrian

DHAKA: Sikh protestors gathered at the Congress office today, demanding action against party leader Captain Amarinder Singh for his recent remarks to NDTV on the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. Amarinder Singh, who has served as Chief Minister of Punjab, had declared that Jagdish Tytler for the

DHAKA: A submarine scanning the ocean floor for signs of a missing Malaysian airliner is two-thirds of the way through its search but has yet to find the plane, officials say.The Bluefin-21 submarine was to embark on its ninth search mission on Monday.Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went

DHAKA: South Korean President Park Geun-hye has condemned the conduct of some of the crew of the ferry that sank last week, calling it "akin to murder".Ms Park said that those to blame would have to take "criminal and civil" responsibility for their actions.Divers are continuing to