DHAKA: A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast, about 50 miles west of Eureka, the United States Geological Survey reported.There is not believed to be any threat of a tsunami, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.Source: usatoday.com

DHAKA: At least 42 African migrants have drowned after their boat overturned off Yemen`s southern coast, the defence ministry has said.The boat smuggling dozens of migrants overturned off the coast of Beer Ali, in the southern Shabwah province, late on Sunday the ministry said in a brief

DHAKA: The search operations for the missing Malaysian Airlines jetliner has widened on Sunday from 20 to 50 nautical miles, as there is still no sign of the plane which vanished over 40 hours ago.Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation director-general Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said on

DHAKA: The Iranian foreign minister has told the visiting EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton that a nuclear deal could come in the next four months.Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks lasting more than an hour with Baroness Ashton, who is making her first visit to Tehran amid a thaw in

DHAKA: Ukraine’s interim prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on Sunday he would travel to the United States this week for crisis talks with senior officials.‘I am going to the United States for meetings at the highest level aimed at settling the situation in Ukraine,’ Interfax

DHAKA: Armed men have burnt down a yoga centre in Islamabad inaugurated by a world famous Indian Hindu guru who once offered to teach inner peace to the Taliban.The police said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.The Art of Living centre was torched on Saturday night in the upmarket Bani

DHAKA: The pilot of a Malaysia Airlines jet that went missing on Saturday enjoyed flying the Boeing 777 so much that he spent his off days tinkering with a flight simulator of the plane that he had set up at home.The pilot’s current and former co-workers said, reports

DHAKA: A Chinese family successfully rang the mobile phone of a passenger on board Malaysia Airlines plane MH370 which is still missing after it lost contact with the ground on Saturday.A video clip showing the family member dialing the number made its rounds online on Sunday.The call got

DHAKA: Russian forces took control of a Ukrainian border guard post in western Crimea on Sunday, trapping about 30 personnel inside.A border guard spokesman said, reports The Straits Times.He said by telephone that the Chernomorskoye base on the western edge of the Back Sea peninsula had

DHAKA: Tens of thousands of citizens turned out for an anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo on Sunday, as the nation prepares to mark the third anniversary of the Fukushima disaster.Demonstrators congregated at Hibiya Park, close to central government buildings, before marching around the national

DHAKA: Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Sunday vowed Ukraine would not give ‘an inch’ of its territory to Russia.He said at a rally of thousands of people in Kiev in honour of 19th-century national hero Taras Shevchenko, reports The Times of India.‘This is our land. We

DHAKA: The Israeli army was on Sunday unloading a ship which it intercepted in the Red Sea allegedly transporting arm from Iran to Gaza and escorted to the port of Eilat.An AFP correspondent said dozens of containers from the Panamanian-flagged Klos-C were being unloaded and transferred

DHAKA: Afghanistan’s first vice president, Marshal Mohammed Qassim Fahim, has died, a spokesman of the Afghan government has confirmed.In an online statement on Sunday, presidential spokesman Aimal Faizi said that Fahim had passed away and that the government had called for a national

DHAKA: Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has accused Saudi Arabia and Qatar of openly funding the Sunni Muslim insurgents his troops are battling in western Anbar province, in his strongest such statement since fighting started there early this year.Security forces have been fighting

DHAKA: The EU’s head of foreign policy, Catherine Ashton, has begun talks with Iranian leaders in Tehran.It is her first visit to Iran and comes amid a thaw in relations with the West following last year`s election of moderate Hassan Rouhani as president.She met foreign minister

DHAKA: The FBI is sending agents and technical experts to assist a team probing the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet that had several Americans aboard.US media reported, says The Straits Times.US officials told The Los Angeles Times that they are trying to determine whether there

DHAKA: The US has warned Russia that any moves to annex Crimea would close the door to diplomacy.US Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that Crimea is part of Ukraine and Moscow should avoid military escalation, reports BBC.Meanwhile, US President Barack

DHAKA: Libya has threatened to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker if it tries to export oil from a rebel-controlled port east of Tripoli, in a major escalation of a standoff over the country`s petroleum wealth.The rebels in control of Libya`s eastern ports are attempting to export oil

DHAKA: Hundreds of National Guardsmen in riot gear and armoured vehicles have prevented an `empty pots march` from reaching Venezuela`s Food Ministry to protest against shortages of staple items.More than 5,000 protesters banged pots, blew horns and whistles and carried banners in

DHAKA: Uncertainly over the fate of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was further compounded Saturday by reports that two men whose names matched those on the passenger manifest had reported their passports stolen.Malaysian authorities apparently did not check the stolen documents on