DHAKA: Two bomb blasts have rocked the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja causing a number of deaths.Officials say, reports the BBC.The first struck near a police station in Kuje, 25 miles (40km) from Abuja, the second hit a bus stop in Nyanya.No group has said it carried out the

DHAKA: At least 30 people have died and about 600 are missing after a hillside collapsed on a town on the edge of Guatemala City, burying homes in earth and sludge and sparking a desperate hunt for survivors.Loosened by heavy rains, tonnes of dirt and trees tumbled onto Santa Catarina

DHAKA: Australian police say they believe a 15-year-old who killed a police worker in Sydney had links to terrorism.The teenage boy was killed by New South Wales police on Friday after he gunned down the worker at close range outside the state police headquarters.Police say the boy, who

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has expressed frustration over the ‘routine’ response to mass shootings, after a gunman killed nine people in Oregon.“We’ve become numb to this,” he said at the White House, visibly angry, reports the BBC.He said the shootings had become

DHAKA: Members of the US-led coalition against Islamic State have called on Russia to cease air strikes, they say, are hitting the Syrian opposition and civilians.In a joint statement on Friday, the US, UK, Turkey, Saudi Arabia said Russian strikes constituted an escalation and would

DHAKA: At least 11 people have died after a US Hercules aircraft crashed at an airport in Afghanistan, the US military says.The C-130 plane crashed at around midnight local time (19:30 GMT Thursday) at Jalalabad airport.US Army Colonel Brian Tribus said that six of those killed worked for

DHAKA: Ten people have been killed and seven injured in a shooting at a college in the US state of Oregon, say police.The gunman, 26, opened fire at Umpqua Community College on Thursday morning and was killed in a police shootout, BBC reported.There were conflicting reports on casualties

DHAKA: The Palestinian flag has been raised for the first time at United Nations headquarters in New York.The ceremony was attended by the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, BBC reported.Addressing the UN General Assembly, Abbas said it was unconscionable that the

DHAKA: The US and Russian military will hold talks "as soon as possible" to avoid clashing in Syria, the countries' top diplomats say.Russian defence officials say their aircraft carried out about 20 missions against the so-called Islamic State group (IS) on Wednesday, reports BBC.But the

DHAKA: Russia appears to have carried out its first air strikes in Syria against opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, US officials say.They say the strikes reportedly came in the area of the city of Homs, and that Washington was informed in advance that they were about to take place,

DHAKA: A special court of India on Wednesday sentenced five people to death for planting bombs on Mumbai's local trains in July 2006, killing 189 people and leaving over 800 injured.Seven of the 12 men convicted for the train blasts have been given a life term.The convicts were found

DHAKA: More than 1,000 pilgrims are still confined to a number of hospitals in Makkah for treatment of various ailments, Health Ministry’s spokesman Faisal Al-Zahrani said.He said the patients include some pilgrims who were injured in the crane crash in the Grand Mosque on Sept. 11 and

DHAKA: Afghan forces have been battling Taliban fighters to retake the city of Kunduz, a day after it fell to the insurgents in their biggest victory since their removal from power in 2001.Heavy fighting has been reported, and President Ashraf Ghani said his forces had regained some

DHAKA: Officials from several countries have said that more than 1,000 people died in last week’s stampede near Mecca during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.The last figure given by the Saudi authorities was 769.However, a Nigerian official told the BBC that more than 1,000 bodies had been

DHAKA: The death toll from a suspected air strike on a wedding party in Yemen on Monday has risen to at least 130.The United Nations and local medics say, reports the BBC.Missiles reportedly hit two tents in a village near the Red Sea port of Mocha, where a man linked to the Houthi rebel

DHAKA: The Nepalese government is considering banning anyone deemed too young or too old or with a severe disability from climbing Mount Everest.A spokesman said under new proposals, no-one younger than 18 or older than 75 would be allowed to climb, reports the BBC.The ministry of tourism

DHAKA: NASA scientists’ found evidence of liquid water runs down canyons and crater walls over the summer months on Mars.According to researchers the discovery raises the chances of being home to some form of life, reports The Guardian.The trickles leave long, dark stains on the Martian

DHAKA: Afghan forces have arrived at Kunduz airport in preparation for a counter-attack on the embattled city, which was seized by the Taliban on Monday.An operation would be launched in the coming hours, a spokesman for the Kunduz provincial police told the BBC.Troops and officials

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has announced that more than 50 countries have pledged tens of thousands of new personnel to bolster the UN’s overstretched and underequipped peacekeeping operations.Obama said that about 40,000 new troops and police had been committed to the UN’s blue

DHAKA: Taiwan has evacuated thousands of residents and tourists as ‘super typhoon’ Dujuan headed towards the island, gathering strength on its approach to the east coast.Torrential rains and high winds are forecast across Taiwan from Monday afternoon, with landfall predicted around