DHAKA: At least six people including a senior city council official have been killed in a Mogadishu explosion reported to have been caused by a remote-controlled bomb planted by al-Shabab fighters. Police said on Saturday that the the bomb was hidden in a pile of rubbish placed alongside

DHAKA: Eight more bodies were recovered on Saturday from the ferry that sank off South Korea last month, reports said, amid concern that some of the missing may never be found. Seventeen days after the 6,825-tonne Sewol capsized and sank, 236 people have been confirmed dead with 66 still

DHAKA: An Egyptian court sentenced 102 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi to 10 years in prison on Saturday over protest violence.   Egypt state television reported, says The Straits Times.   The army-installed government has rounded up thousands of Mursi

DHAKA: At least three people have been killed in a large explosion, possibly a car bomb or roadside bomb, near the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu. Somali police said, reports Al Jazeera. ‘So far three people have died and 10 others were injured,’ Farah Nur, a police officer,

DHAKA: Afghan officials gave up hope on Saturday of finding any survivors from a landslide in the remote north-east, putting the death toll at more than 2,100, as the aid effort focused on the more than 4,000 people displaced. Officials expressed concern that the unstable hillside above

DHAKA: Seven international military observers taken captive in eastern Ukraine a week ago have been released. Five Ukrainian officers captured with the observers, who are linked to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, were also freed. Pro-Russian separatists in the

DHAKA: Nine more bodies were recovered from a village in Baksa district early Saturday, taking the toll to 32 in the violence unleashed by NDFB-Songbijit militants in Bodoland Territorial Administration Districts (BTADC) area in Assam. The bodies of the victims, including four children

DHAKA: Afghan police and villagers, equipped with only basic digging tools, began a dangerous search for more than 2,000 people feared buried under a massive landslide in a remote mountainous region in the northeast on Saturday, amid concern that the unstable hillside may cave in again.

DHAKA:  A curfew has been imposed, and shoot at sight orders have been given in the Kokrajhar, Chirang and Baksa districts in Assam, after suspected Bodo rebels killed 23 people.   Here are the latest developments:       12 bodies were recovered on Friday from Narayanguri in

DHAKA: At least 350 people have been killed and many more are missing, the UN says, after a landslide hit the Afghan province of Badakhshan.   Hundreds of homes were buried under mud and rocks when a section of a mountain collapsed following torrential rain.   Rescuers have reached

DHAKA: At least 31 people have been killed in a fire in an official building amid clashes between pro-Russian activists and government supporters in Odessa, in south-west Ukraine. The deaths came as pro-Russian protesters clashed with Ukrainian government supporters in the city.

DHAKA: Around 2000  people were feared dead following a landslide in northeastern Badakhshan province of Afghanistan. According to local government officials, the incident took place in Argu district and scores of people have been trapped under the rocks. A local official in Badakhshan

DHAKA: A pilot was killed, and several other people injured in a government "anti-terror" operation in the eastern city of Sloviansk of Ukraine, reports BBC. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov confirmed the death saying nine rebel checkpoints had been seized during the operation. However,

DHAKA: Days after authorities dismissed the idea that MH370 may be in the Bay of Bengal, a top Malaysian official said Friday he is considering the theory, report CNN. CNN quoting acting Transportation Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, said the tip could only be confirmed by sending vessels

DHAKA: At least 33 people were killed and several others injured when Syrian military airstrikes hit parts of northwest Syrian city of Aleppo Thursday, said the UK-based opposition group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Of the airstrikes one hit a school in Aleppo killed 20 people,

DHAKA: At least 19 people were killed and injured 60 more in a car bomb attack killed in the Nigerian capital Abuja.Witnesses said the explosion targeted a police checkpoint near a bus station.No group has claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack. The Islamist militant group Boko

DHAKA: The death toll from last week's flash floods in northern Afghanistan now stands at almost 150. Some areas are still completely cut off, with no help reaching people because roads were swept away, reports the BBC. The governor of Jowzjan province, Boymurod Qoyinli, told the BBC

DHAKA: Two bombs planted on a train killed a 22-year-old woman and wounded 14 others at the Chennai Central Railway Station on Thursday morning. Sources say a man has been held and is being questioned. He was reportedly hiding inside the train an hour after the explosions, reports the

DHAKA: Afghan forces repulsed an assault by hundreds of militants, many from across the border in Pakistan, officials said Wednesday, in the biggest clashes since the presidential election almost four weeks ago. Nato air support was called in to help beat back the attack that left 60

DHAKA: Saudi health authorities announced on Wednesday two new deaths from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) in the kingdom, where 16 more infections were also detected. A 41-year-old man in the north-western city of Tabuk and an 88-year-old in Riyadh died of the coronavirus,