The US and Russian foreign ministers are due to hold their second round of talks in Geneva on how to secure Syria`s chemical weapons.US officials said Thursday`s meeting was comprehensive and lasted about an hour. Talks could continue over the weekend.The BBC`s Paul Adams in Geneva says

DHAKA: Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan have attacked the US consulate in the western city of Herat.The Taliban told the BBC a suicide bomber had detonated explosives outside the building before dawn on Friday.Other fighters then opened fire on the consulate. Several Afghan police are

DHAKA: Crucial talks on ending Syrian control of its chemical weapons began Thursday in Geneva with the top negotiators -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov -- offering similar goals but different ideas on how to reach them."This is not a game,"

DHAKA: President Bashar al-Assad has signed a decree stating that Syria will accede to international law on chemical weapons, the United Nations said.In a statement on Thursday, the spokesman for the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said: "The secretary general has today received a letter

DHAKA: A Canadian woman has been arrested in Colombia after trying to board a flight from Bogota`s international airport with a fake pregnant belly stuffed with cocaine.Police say the tourist caught the attention of an anti-narcotics officer during a routine pat down.Source: BBCBDST: 0528

DHAKA: The United Nations said on Thursday it has received documents from the Syrian government seeking to join the international convention banning chemical weapons."In the past few hours we have received a document from the government of Syria which is being translated," said a UN

DHAKA: John Kerry, US secretary of state, has addressed the media after arriving in Geneva to meet Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov as the UN tries to forge an international plan to disarm the Syrian government of its chemical weapons.Lavrov and Kerry will discuss efforts to agree a UN

DHAKA: Myanmar`s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday that she alone could not stop the anti-Muslim violence that has shaken her country and that the solution was to install the rule of law."It`s not something that I could learn to do, but I think what this whole society

DHAKA: An American from Alabama who ascended the ranks of Somalia`s al-Shabaab armed group high enough to attract a $5 million US government bounty has been killed in an ambush ordered by the group`s leader, witnesses said.Residents in al Baate village in southern Somalia said Omar

DHAKA: Talking to reporters at the conclusion of his party`s national executive meeting, he said, "There was no justice in Gujarat but justice will be done in UP, I have never done the politics of caste and religion.”“Strict action will be taken against the guilty. We will provide the

DHAKA: Advani stood firmly against Modi, though BJP president Rajnath Singh and other leaders tried to convince him during two rounds of discussions that majority of the BJP leadership, its cadres and the ideological parent, the RSS, overwhelmingly wanted Modi as the PM candidate.In fact,

DHAKA: The man convicted of murdering 77 people in attacks in Norway in 2011 has enrolled at the University of Oslo to study political science.Anders Behring Breivik, who is serving a 21-year sentence, has not been admitted to a degree-granting programme, but will study modules.The

DHAKA: Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has appeared on Russian TV to confirm that his country’s chemical weapons will be placed under international control.His comments, to Rossiya 24, came as US and Russian foreign ministers prepared to meet in Geneva to discuss the plan, proposed

DHAKA: There is a still a chance for peace in Syria and the world must not let it pass, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Thursday.Speaking to students in Kazakhstan, Lavrov welcomed the Syrian government’s acceptance of Russia’s proposal that Damascus

DHAKA: The European Parliament on Thursday urged a ‘clear, strong, targeted and united’ international response, including ‘deterrent measures’ if needed, to the chemical weapons attack that left hundreds dead in Syria last month.In a resolution, the parliament noted that

DHAKA: The United States will insist that Syria take rapid steps to show it is serious about abandoning its vast chemical arsenal, a senior US officials said, as US state secretary John Kerry arrived in Geneva on Thursday for talks with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.Among the

DHAKA: The UN food agency says one-third of all food produced in the world gets wasted, amounting to a loss of $750 billion a year.The Rome-based Food and Agricultural Organization said in a report Wednesday that food in developing countries is wasted mostly due to poor harvesting

DHAKA: Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he was doubtful that president Bashar Assad would fulfil his pledge to put Syria’s chemical weapons under international control, and said he was buying time for new ‘massacres’.‘The Assad regime has not lived up to any

DHAKA: The United States’ decision to weigh military action against Syria and growing evidence that the government there was behind a chemical weapons attack prompted Russia to change its stance towards its Middle East ally.The British government said, reports The Straits Times.‘The

DHAKA: Prince William is to leave the military after more than seven years of service, Kensington Palace has announced.The Duke of Cambridge completed his final shift as an RAF search and rescue pilot on Tuesday.He will now focus on royal duties and charity work together with the Duchess