DHAKA: Eighteen people are now confirmed to have died and 14 have been rescued from capsized ship in the Yangtze River of China.The Eastern Star, with 456 mostly elderly people on board, overturned in bad weather on Monday night.Hopes are fading of any more survivors being found inside a

DHAKA: Irwin Rose, a biochemist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a way that cells destroy unwanted proteins ‘a key for developing new cancer therapies ‘ has died.He was 88.Janet Wilson of the University of California, Irvine “where Rose was a

DHAKA: At least 50 people were killed in bomb blast at a busy market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for explosion in the Gamboru cattle market, but there have been repeated attacks by the armed group Boko Haram in

DHAKA: Former security contractor Edward Snowden won a Norwegian prize for freedom of expression Tuesday and received yet another invitation to leave his exile and receive the award in person.The Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression said the 31-year old fugitive had

DHAKA: Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was sworn in for another five-year term after a landslide victory in April’s elections extended his quarter-century rule over the North African nation.‘I will be president to all Sudanese people, whether they voted for me or they boycotted

DHAKA: Family members of some of the hundreds of passengers aboard a capsized Chinese cruise boat scuffled with officials in Shanghai on Tuesday, angry that they were not being told what happened to the vessel and their loved ones.About 60 people, many of them relatives of tourists on the

DHAKA: Myanmar’s navy is escorting a boat crammed with 727 abandoned migrants to the waters of neighboring Bangladesh, four days after intercepting it in the Andaman Sea.The country’s information minister said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.The migrants, who were found drifting

DHAKA: Ministers from 20 countries are to meet in Paris to discuss strategy against Islamic State (IS) militants.Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will attend, but US Secretary of State John Kerry will miss the meeting because of a cycling accident.The meeting comes after IS took the

DHAKA: Temperatures during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan could hit 65 degrees Celsius in many areas in Saudi Arabia.Quoting Saudi climatologist Abdul Rahman Mohammed Al-Ghamdi, Saudi Gazette said temperatures in the shade would reach 50 degrees while under the direct sunlight may

DHAKA: A passenger ship carrying 458 people sank Monday night in the Hubei section of China’s Yangtze River, reports xinhuanet.The ship, named Dongfangzhixing (Eastern Star), sank at around 9:28pm (11:28pm Bangladesh time) in the Jianli (Hubei Province) section of the Yangtze River,

DHAKA: A record-breaking attempt to cross the Pacific Ocean using a solar-powered plane has been aborted.Poor weather conditions are forcing the Solar Impulse craft to head back to Japan to land.The pilot was 36 hours into what was expected to be a six-day journey from China to Hawaii.The

DHAKA: The Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria has ramped up its activities in southeast Asia so effectively that there is now an entire military unit of terrorists recruited from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, according to Singapore’s Prime Minister.‘South-east Asia is a key

DHAKA: Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej has gone back into hospital, only a few weeks after being discharged.A statement from the palace on Sunday said he was undergoing tests at the Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok but did not say when he was likely to return to his home in the coastal

DHAKA: Public smoking in China's capital, Beijing, is now banned after the introduction of a new law.China has over 300 million smokers and over a million Chinese people die from smoking-related illnesses every year.Smoking bans already existed in China, but have largely failed to crack

DHAKA: The NSA has come under increased scrutiny since the Snowden revelationsUS anti-terror laws that allow security services to bulk collect phone data are set to expire after the Senate failed to reach a deal, reports bbc.comKey provisions of the law, known as the Patriot Act, will

DHAKA: A fire at a medical clinic in northeast Syria has killed 27 people, mostly children, say reports.Around 30 people were also injured when a fuel tank exploded at the Maysalun clinic in Qamishli, a Kurdish city on the Turkish border.Juan Mohammed, a Kurdish official in the nearby

DHAKA: Secretary of State John F. Kerry suffered a leg injury Sunday morning in an accident while bicycling and was transported by medical helicopter to a Geneva hospital, reports the Washington Post.Spokesman John Kirby said that Kerry, 71, did not lose consciousness, and that he was

DHAKA: Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg has begun his bid to cross the Pacific, from China to Hawaii, in the zero-fuel Solar Impulse aeroplane.The experimental aircraft, which has a wingspan bigger than a jumbo but weighs little more than a large car, left Nanjing at 02:39 (18:39 GMT).It is

DHAKA: 202 more deaths have been reported in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Odisha of India since Saturday, taking the number of people killed from heat wave in the country to over 2,200.In Andhra Pradesh, 146 more deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, while 52 more people died in

DHAKA: Former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the son of US Vice-President Joe Biden, has died of brain cancer.The 46-year-old was taken to hospital earlier this month at the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre, near Washington, reports BBC.Beau Biden was seen as a rising star of US