DHAKA: A car bomb went off in a commercial area of a restive northern Iraqi city, killing at least 10 people, while a separate bombing in the north killed six people.Iraq officials said, reports Al Jazeera.The explosives-laden parked car targeted a joint Iraqi army and police patrol while

DHAKA: A Ukrainian officer has been killed in a gun battle with pro-Russian armed men in the eastern city of Sloviansk.Ukraine interior minister says, reports the BBC.Both sides suffered a number of casualties, Arsen Avakov said.Pro-Russian forces took over Sloviansk on Saturday and have

DHAKA: Russia`s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says any armed action by Ukrainian authorities in the east of Ukraine could undermine forthcoming talks.He made the comments after pro-Russian militants stormed a police headquarters in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on Sunday.The

DHAKA: A tsunami warning was canceled following a 7.6-magnitude earthquake that struck Sunday morning near the Solomon Islands, officials said.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center based in Hawaii had issued a warning for the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu in the South

DHAKA: A UN report on climate change is expected to call for a trebling of the planet`s use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power.The report is also expected to argue that the trend of increased carbon emissions can only be reversed if a "massive shift" in energy use is

DHAKA: A group of pro-Russian men armed with automatic weapons have taken control of the police headquarters in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, 150 km from the Russian border, local officials and witnesses said.An organised military unit of over 20 men wearing matching military fatigues

DHAKA: Gunmen have killed 135 civilians in north east Nigeria since Wednesday, a senior official from the region has told the BBC.Borno state senator Ahmed Zannah said the killings took place in at least three separate attacks in the state.The attackers are suspected to be from the

DHAKA: Kalashnikov-wielding gunmen on Saturday seized a police station and a security building in Ukraine’s restive eastern industrial heartland amid spreading protests to press for the heavily Russified region to join Kremlin rule.The coordinated attacks and a failed assault on the

DHAKA: Kuwait’s opposition called Saturday for broad democratic reforms including a Western-style party system to limit the powers of the country’s ruling family.The call came in a ‘national political reform programme’, launched by the Opposition Coalition in the state where

DHAKA: As India holds the latest round of its mammoth elections Friday, one man, polygamist and sect leader Zionnghaka Chana, has become the voter every local politician wants to know.With 39 wives and 127 children and grandchildren, Chana is a voter like no other in the remote

DHAKA: A Pakistani judge threw out charges of attempted murder against a nine-month-old baby on Saturday, lawyers said, in a case that cast a spotlight on Pakistan’s dysfunctional justice system.Baby Musa Khan appeared in court in the city of Lahore, sitting on his grandfather’s lap

DHAKA: A group of the world’s leading rich nations will support increasing sanctions against Russia if Moscow escalates the crisis in Ukraine.US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has said, reports Al jazeera.‘There is broad and strong unity within the G7 on increasing sanctions and costs in

DHAKA: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, who faces a triangular contest from the family pocket borough of Amethi, filed nomination papers from Amethi on Saturday following a massive roadshow.Priyanka Vadra and her husband Robert Vadra accompanied Rahul Gandhi during his 40km-long

DHAKA: Seven members of a polling party and five CRPF personnel were killed as Maoists struck twice on Saturday, blowing up a bus and an ambulance in India’s Bijapur and Bastar districts of Chhattisgarh.A bus carrying a team of poll officials and security personnel was hit by a landmine

DHAKA: A top Iranian official said Saturday that the country was not considering a replacement nominee for its prospective UN envoy who has been denied a US visa.‘We are not considering an alternative pick,’ deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi told Mehr news agency, referring to

DHAKA: Armed men dressed in camouflage clothing have seized a police station in eastern Ukraine.Officials say, reports the BBC.Police said the gang fired shots and used stun grenades to seize the offices in Sloviansk, near the Russian border.Interior Minister Arsen Avakov called the

DHAKA: The searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner amid fears that batteries powering signals from the black box recorder on board may have died.The Guardian reports on Saturday.Search for Flight MH370 was resumed on Saturday, five weeks after the plane disappeared from radar

DHAKA: A German coder admitted that he had introduced the Heartbleed, reported The Wall Street Journal, on Saturday.But it was done by unintentionally, the programmer also said to the media.Robin Seggelmann, a 31-year-old who now works as a contributor to the Internet Engineering Task

DHAKA: The co-pilot of missing Malaysian airliner flight MH370 attempted to make a mid-flight call from his mobile phone just before the plane vanished from radar screens, a report said on Saturday citing unnamed investigators.The call ended abruptly possibly ‘because the aircraft was

DHAKA: The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will likely continue for ‘a long time’, Australian prime minister Tony Abbott warned on Saturday, a day after voicing confidence that signals from the black box had been detected.The Australian-led search for the Boeing 777,