DHAKA: At least 44 people in China have been killed in an explosion after a leaking oil pipeline caught fire in the city of Qingdao, state media has reported.Xinhua quoted officials who said workers were trying to repair the pipeline at the time of Friday`s blast.Pictures of the scene

DHAKA: Momentum appears to be building for a breakthrough deal on Iran`s nuclear program, with top diplomats flocking to the site of ongoing talks.Hours after a Western official said a deal could be reached "as soon as tonight," discussions ended Friday night, a senior U.S. State

DHAKA: The death toll from the collapse of a roof at a supermarket in Latvia`s capital, Riga, climbed Friday to 51, the mayor said.Between five and seven people are still believed trapped in the debris from Thursday`s collapse at the Maxima supermarket, in western Riga, Mayor Nils Usakovs

DHAKA: Village houses were damaged and power supply cut after three earthquakes measuring above 5 magnitude jolted the city of Songyuan in northeast China`s Jilin Province since Friday afternoon.Authorities are still verifying the casualties and economic losses after the latest

DHAKA: China successfully flew a stealth drone for the first time on Thursday, state media said, citing eyewitness reports.A drone, called "Sharp Sword" by the media, made a test flight for around 20 minutes in Chengdu, reports said.China has been developing stealth aircraft in recent

DHAKA: At least seven people are reported to have been killed in two bomb explosions in a busy area of Pakistan`s southern city of Karachi.At least 18 people were injured in the predominantly Shia area of Ancholi, local media report.Angry crowds gathered at the scene, denouncing the

DHAKA: A zoo in the US state of Texas is investigating why a male lion in its pride attacked and killed a lioness in full view of visitors.The male seized five-year-old Johari by the neck on Sunday at the Dallas Zoo.An autopsy found she died from neck wounds and haemorrhaging.Zoo

DHAKA: At least six people were killed when dozens of tornadoes and intense thunderstorms swept across the US Midwest on Sunday, unleashing powerful winds that flattened entire neighbourhoods, flipped over cars and uprooted trees.An elderly man and his sister were killed when a tornado

DHAKA: Mulayam Singh Yadav led Samajwadi Party has invited cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar to join the party.Sports minister Narad Rai is reported to have told mediapersons in Ballia that Sachin may join Samajwadi Party.‘The final decision would be taken up by the party high command,’

DHAKA: Seven schoolchildren were killed and three wounded by a roadside bomb in south-eastern Afghanistan on Monday, an official said.The bomb was planted on the side of a main road in the Khairkot district of Paktika province, and exploded when the children stepped on it while

DHAKA: Violence across Iraq, including a spate of evening bombings against markets and cafes in Baghdad, killed at least 26 people and a dozen militants.Iraq officials said Monday, reports daily Hurriyet.The attacks on Sunday were the latest in a protracted surge in violence that has

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin told his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Monday that there was ‘a real chance’ to find a solution to the decade-old standoff over Teheran’s nuclear drive.The Kremlin said Putin had called Rouhani to discuss the Syrian crisis as well as a

DHAKA: Egyptian officials say the death toll from a train crash south of Cairo has risen to 26, after two of the injured died in hospital.The train slammed into at least three vehicles, including a truck, crossing the tracks early on Monday near the village of Dahshur.Most of the dead and

DHAKA: Over 12,000 Syrians arrived over the weekend to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley town of Arsal seeking shelter from expected battles in their country.A spokesperson from the caretaker Lebanon’s social affairs ministry told TDS Monday.‘The latest figures of the Syrian refugees who

DHAKA: Direct peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority could resume later this week.A senior Ramallah official told Israel Radio on Monday, reports The Jerusalem Post.The official said that despite the resignation of Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat and his

DHAKA: Germany’s top parties, in talks on forming a government, agreed on Monday to a binding boardroom quota for women intended to fix a big gender imbalance in business.Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their likely coalition partners, the Social

DHAKA: South Africa president Jacob Zuma visited former president Nelson Mandela at his Houghton home in Johannesburg on Monday, the presidency said.‘The health of the former president remains much the same as it was when President Zuma last visited him, which is stable but critical,

DHAKA: Iran on Monday unveiled a missile-equipped drone with a range of 2,000 kilometres.Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported, says The Straits Times.‘The Fotros drone has an operational range of 2,000 kilometres and can fly at an altitude of 25,000 feet, with a flight time of 16

DHAKA: Jordan has formally submitted a bid for a two-year seat on the UN Security Council, officials said on Monday, after its ally Saudi Arabia rejected the position partly in protest over international failure to end Syria’s civil war.Jordan, which closely follows regional heavyweight

DHAKA: A suicide bomber blew himself up during a Shia Muslim religious ritual in the eastern Iraqi city of al-Sadiya November 14, killing at least 30 people and wounding 67, a senior local official and police said.No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which came on