DHAKA: A suicide attacker rammed an explosives-laden truck into a police base near Kabul on Monday, killing four officers and wounding 17 other people including a local police chief.Afghan officials said, reports The Straits Times.The Taliban, the main Islamist militant group behind

DHAKA: China launched its first ever extraterrestrial landing craft into orbit en route for the moon in the early hours of Monday, in a major milestone for its space programme.‘The probe has already entered the designated orbit,’ the official Xinhua news agency quoted Zhang Zhenzhong,

DHAKA: Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi called on World Aids Day for an end to discrimination against those living with the disease as experts warned against complacency in fighting the global scourge.Speaking as the UNAids global advocate for people living with HIV/Aids, Suu Kyi drew

DHAKA: The United Nations closed its main office in Bangkok, dozens of schools closed and many civil servants stayed away from work on Monday as the Thai capital braced for more violence in a spiraling political crisis.After a weekend of chaos in pockets of Bangkok, protesters vowed to

DHAKA: Thai authorities again fired tear gas as anti-government protesters returned to barricades outside official buildings in the capital, Bangkok.Some schools and universities closed, amid a call for a general strike on the ninth day of protests.On Sunday, police fired tear gas and

DHAKA: Four people were reported dead on Sunday after a passenger train bound for New York`s Grand Central Station derailed in the Bronx.Metropolitan Transportation Authority police say the train derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station just after 7.20am.Pictures showed five carriages

DHAKA: Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said on Sunday he would discuss China’s expansion of its air defence zone with US vice president Joe Biden in Tokyo to coordinate their stance after apparently contradictory responses.China raised regional tensions with its declaration on

DHAKA: Gunmen shot dead a Yemeni army colonel and his son on Sunday when he stopped his car at a roundabout in his hometown.A local official said, extending a string of assassinations of top armed forces figures by suspected Islamist militants, reports The Jerusalem Post.Four passers-by

DHAKA: Thailand’s government told people in Bangkok to stay indoors on Sunday night after a day of violence in which protesters seeking to topple prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra launched attacks on state agencies.‘After 10:00pm until 5:00am, if it is not necessary, we ask people to

DHAKA: China’s state media and people eagerly awaited the launch early Monday of the country’s first lunar rover mission, the next step in an ambitious space programme.The Chang’e-3 rocket carrying the ‘Jade Rabbit’ rover to explore the moon is set to blast off at 1:30am (1730

DHAKA: A leader of a hardline Egyptian Islamist group that fought the state in the 1990s warned that the army had driven the nation to the ‘edge of a precipice’ since he fled the country after president Mohamed Mursi’s ouster in July.The state and Islamists are old foes in Egypt, a

DHAKA: Bronx area of New York City, prompting a major emergency services response.A witness quoted by media, Rebecca Schwartz, said some of the carriages of the Metro-North train had been submerged in water, but this was unclear from pictures of the scene.ABC News says there are reports

DHAKA: Three people were killed overnight in fighting in the north Lebanese city of Tripoli, security sources said on Sunday, raising to nine the death toll in 24 hours of violence fuelled by sectarian tensions over Syria’s civil war.The clashes between Tripoli’s Alawite minority,

DHAKA: Human Rights Watch on Sunday urged Saudi authorities to launch a probe into violence that accompanied a crackdown launched last month against illegal migrant workers.It also warned of a ‘humanitarian disaster’ if the workers remain held in deportation centres across the Gulf

DHAKA: Thousands of pro-Europe demonstrators are marching through the Ukrainian capital in protest at president Viktor Yanukovych’s refusal to sign an EU trade deal.Crowds gathered in a park before moving toward Kiev’s Independence Square, in defiance of a court order banning rallies

DHAKA: Taliban-inspired technology is boosting the capacity of dissident republicans to wage war against the security services, with the discovery of advanced weaponry never seen before in Northern Ireland.Independent on Sunday reveals, reports The Times of India.The degree of technical

DHAKA: Iran said on Sunday it wanted stronger cooperation with US ally Saudi Arabia, as it seeks to ease concerns among Gulf Arab neighbours about a potential resurgence in its influence following a nuclear deal with world powers.Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif, on a tour of Gulf

DHAKA: Bedouin Arabs living in Israel have been protesting in the Negev Desert and towns and cities over government plans to resettle them.Thousands joined what was termed a ‘day of rage’ in the Negev itself, Haifa, Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.The Bedouin say the plan will force

DHAKA: Nine people were killed after flooding and a landslide hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island, an official said on Sunday.‘Heavy rains from Saturday evening till night triggered a landslide in the hilly area of Berastagi sub-district in North Sumatra,’ National Disaster Mitigation

DHAKA: Syrian activists say the death toll from a government helicopter strike on a rebel-held town near the northern city of Aleppo has risen to 26 people, including four children.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says a military helicopter targeted a compound of the