DHAKA: Chinese state media laid into Bo Xilai on Saturday, saying ‘arrogance’ led to his demise, a day after a court rejected the fallen politician’s appeal against his corruption conviction.Bo was condemned to life imprisonment on charges of bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power

DHAKA: The widow of former Yugoslav leader Marshal Tito has been honoured in a state funeral in the Serbian capital.Jovanka Broz, who died of heart failure at the age of 88 last weekend, was buried next to her husband in the elaborate House of Flowers mausoleum.She received full military

DHAKA: The United Nations peace envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said on Saturday he Iran should be invited to peace talks in Geneva.Iran’s English-language Press TV reported, says The Jerusalem Post.‘We believe that the participation of Iran in the Geneva conference is natural and

DHAKA: The United Nations has expressed serious concern for hundreds of Myanmar civilians, many of them children, trapped in a conflict zone in northern Kachin state amid renewed clashes between the army and rebels.It said over a thousand displaced people are thought to be running short

DHAKA: At least one Afghan soldier was killed and a NATO-led international military soldier injured Saturday in an insider attack in the capital, Kabul, officials said.‘There was a verbal dispute between an Afghan and a NATO soldier today, who opened fire on each other,’ said Dawlat

DHAKA: Kurdish militants seized a Syrian border post on the frontier with Iraq early on Saturday, a monitoring group said, after three days of clashes with an al-Qaida-linked group which had held the crossing for more than a year.The Yarubiya post and surrounding areas in the northeast

DHAKA: JP Morgan has reached a $5.1bn settlement with the US Federal Housing Finance Agency over charges it misled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the housing boom.A separate settlement with the US Justice Department is expected to be announced soon.‘This is a

DHAKA: The Iranian authorities on Saturday hanged 16 ‘rebels’ following overnight clashes in which 14 border guards were killed on the frontier with Pakistan.An Iranian judicial official said, reports The Straits Times.‘Sixteen rebels linked to groups hostile to the regime were

DHAKA: UN aid chief Valerie Amos demanded stronger action by the UN Security Council to get desperately needed aid into Syria, where 2.5 million people in need have not received help for almost a year.Violence and excessive red tape have slowed aid delivery to a trickle in Syria.More than

DHAKA: German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the European Union’s 28 member states to reach a ‘no spy deal’ similar to an agreement France and Germany seek with the United State following allegations Washington tapped her mobile phone.A German government spokesman late on Friday

DHAKA: Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe, in an interview published on Saturday, said Japan was ready to be more assertive in guarding against what he said might be an attempt by China to use force to attain its diplomatic goals.But a top retired Chinese diplomat said any move by Tokyo to

DHAKA: Fresh floods have killed at least 18 people in the same part of eastern India that this month saw the worst cyclone to hit the country in more than a decade.Indian officials said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Torrential rains made rivers spill their banks in India`s

DHAKA: The authorities in Saudi Arabia have stepped up warnings to women not to defy a ban on female drivers by taking part in a mass driving protest.The interior ministry has reiterated that anyone flouting the ban is likely to face unspecified punishment.Saturday’s planned protest is

DHAKA: Fourteen Iranian border guards have been killed in a clash with gunmen on the border with Pakistan.The official Iranian news agency Irna says, reports the BBC.The clashes took place on Friday night in a mountainous region outside Saravan, a border town in the south-east province of

DHAKA: An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck early on Saturday morning off Japan`s east coast, triggering a small tsunami, the US Geological Survey said.The quake struck at a depth of 10km at 2:10am local time (1710 GMT) about 327km off southeast of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture.As it

DHAKA: Seventy-four members of an Islamist militant group in Nigeria were killed in an air and ground offensive Thursday, the Nigerian military said Friday.The assault on militants from Boko Haram led to the destruction of the militant group’s camps in the remote Galangi and Lawanti

DHAKA: At least 40 people, including children, have been reported killed in a car bomb blast in Syria, outside a mosque in a town in Damascus province.The blast, in the town of Suq Wadi Barada, came just before the end of Friday prayers and brought down the mosque`s entrances.Both the

DHAKA: Germany is to send its top intelligence chiefs to Washington to "push forward" an investigation into allegations the US spied on its leader Angela Merkel.The heads of foreign and domestic intelligence would hold talks with the White House and the National Security Agency, a

DHAKA: Iran’s apparent new readiness to address international concerns about its atomic ambitions will be tested in talks with UN inspectors on Monday, with diplomats hoping for progress such as on access to a sensitive military site.However, the diplomats say Iran will probably agree

DHAKA: Seventeen people were killed and hundreds of villages and several towns were inundated as torrential rains lashed large parts of Andhra Pradesh for the fourth day on Friday.Heavy rains under the impact of low pressure area and a vigorous northeast monsoon hit coastal Andhra,