DHAKA: Fred Sanger, a double Nobel Prize-winning British biochemist whose work pioneered research into the human genome, has died at the age of 95.The University of Cambridge said on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.Sanger, who once described himself as ‘just a chap who messed about

DHAKA: Hundreds of workers shouted slogans on Wednesday outside a Nokia factory in southern China to protest against what they called unfair compensation after the company sold its mobile telephones business to Microsoft Corp.Lack of trust in employers has often led Chinese workers to

DHAKA: Russia is hopeful that talks between Iran and world powers will produce a preliminary deal this week to ease the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear programme.Russia foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.Iranian negotiators and diplomats from the

DHAKA: Israel successfully tested its newest missile defence system on Wednesday, a key step toward making the third and final leg of the country’s three-part defence system operational by next year.Israel’s defence ministry said, reports TDS.‘David’s Sling,’ also known as

DHAKA: Pakistan’s teenage activist Malala Yousafzai was Wednesday handed the EU’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize.To thunderous applause announcing the European Parliament prize, the assembly’s president Martin Schulz praised the 16-year-old’s crusade for all children’s

DHAKA: A UN General Assembly committee condemned Syria for widespread human rights abuses and expressed concern about such violations in Iran, North Korea and Myanmar, but also welcomed pledges by Iran and Myanmar’s presidents to improve some areas.The draft resolution on Iran was

DHAKA: Syria’s over 1,000 tonnes of chemical weapons and precursors could be destroyed at sea if no country agrees to dispose of them on its soil.The world’s chemical watchdog said Wednesday, reports daily Hurriyet.‘This possibility has been looked at for some time already,’

DHAKA: A spate of bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad mostly targeting Shia neighbourhoods has killed at least 28 people and wounded 65, security and medical officials said.Wednesday’s blasts struck across Baghdad from around 7:30am (0430 GMT) onwards, according to the officials who

DHAKA: The Pakistani government formed a special three-member tribunal on Wednesday to prosecute former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on treason charges for suspending the constitution in 2007.It comes after the government announced Sunday it would open treason proceedings against

DHAKA: The White House attempted to play down the impact of the limited lifting of economic sanctions that would take place under a nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran.US president Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, told CNN the amount of Iranian assets that would

DHAKA: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday Tehran wanted friendly ties with all countries, including the United States, on the day Iran begins a new round of talks with world powers on its disputed nuclear programme.‘We want to have friendly relations with

DHAKA: Afghans fleeing fighting at home and seeking refuge in neighbouring Iran face increasing persecution by the Iranian government.Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday, says The Jerusalem Post.The report, ‘Unwelcome Guests’, details a growth in arbitrary arrests,

DHAKA: Indonesia will immediately cease all joint military training and operations as well as exchange of information and intelligence with Australia.Indonesia president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday in the latest salvo as a bilateral row escalated, reports The Straits

DHAKA: China’s president Xi Jinping told his Iranian counterpart to seize the opportunity to improve relations with world powers, as diplomats hope to clinch a preliminary deal to curb Iran’s nuclear programme in charged talks resuming in Geneva on Wednesday.The United States, Russia,

DHAKA: At least 10 Egyptian soldiers are reported killed and several more wounded in a car bomb attack near the North Sinai city of el-Arish.Al-Masri al-Youm newspaper said a convoy of buses carrying infantry soldiers was hit by a roadside bomb as it moved through the Kharouba area.The

DHAKA: At least 21 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a series of bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, security officials and medics say.The bombs mostly targeted Shia districts of the city, but there was also an explosion in the predominantly Sunni area of Adhamiya.The

DHAKA: At least two security personnel were killed and four others injured Wednesday morning during a suicide attack on a Frontier Corps (FC) checkpost on Bannu-Mir Ali Road in North Waziristan tribal agency, DawnNews reported.Security officials and Pakistan Army`s Inter Service Public

DHAKA: One person has died and about 50 are feared trapped after a roof collapsed at the construction site of a South African shopping mall, officials say.Rescue teams are working in the dark and using sniffer dogs to look for survivors beneath the rubble at the site in Tongaat, north of

DHAKA: The bodies of two people who were aboard a Learjet that crashed shortly after takeoff from a Florida airport were recovered from the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday night, a spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard said.Petty Officer Mark Barney said the bodies of a man and woman were located

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has urged US senators to hold off from proposing more sanctions against Iran to allow time for world powers to complete a deal on Iran`s nuclear programme.A White House spokesman warned that if a deal with Tehran was not agreed, Iran would continue