DHAKA: Multiple shots have been fired at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, just steps from the nation's parliament. Witnesses reported seeing a man running toward the government buildings, which have been placed on lockdown. A soldier has been wounded in the attack, Canadian media

DHAKA: An anti-government cleric who has been campaigning in Islamabad, calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has ended his 65-day-long protest. Tahir ul-Qadri - who leads both the Pakistan Awami Tehreek party and the Minhaj-ul-Quran international network of

DHAKA: A British couple was found dead in their hotel room in Agra. Police have been suspecting that they died from drug overdose. The bodies of a 29-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman were found on Tuesday morning in the Maya Hotel close to the Taj Mahal, a senior police officer said

DHAKA: New US rules requiring air passengers from the three West African countries worst hit by Ebola to travel via one of five airports are coming into effect. Travellers from Sierra Leone, Liberia or Guinea must now arrive at O'Hare in Chicago, JFK, Newark, Washington's Dulles or

DHAKA: The US defence department has said it is examining an Islamic State video appearing to show militants in control of US weapons intended for Syrian Kurdish fighters. Some 27 bundles containing small arms, ammunition and other weaponry were dropped on Monday for militias defending

DHAKA: Ben Bradlee, the zestful, charismatic Washington Post editor who guided the paper through the era of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate and was immortalized on screen in "All the President's Men," has died. He was 93.Bradlee began end-of-life care at his home last month after

DHAKA: Jeffrey Fowle, one of three US citizens detained in North Korea, has been released.State department spokeswoman Marie Harf confirmed that Fowle was on his way home on Tuesday following negotiations, reports BBC.She said the US was working to secure the release of two other US

DHAKA: Fighting continues in Yemen between the Houthi rebels and al-Qaeda-backed Sunni tribesmen, leaving at least 68 Houthi fighters dead in the province of Bayda. The news came as protesters in Yemen's capital called on the Houthi fighters to leave after a deadline to form a new

DHAKA: India warned Pakistan on Tuesday of more "pain" if it continued to violate a ceasefire on their disputed border in Kashmir and said it was up to Islamabad to create the conditions for a resumption of peace talks.The two sides exchanged mortars and intense gunfire this month,

DHAKA: Britain said on Tuesday it was authorizing spy planes and armed drones to fly surveillance missions over Syria "very shortly" in order to gather intelligence on Islamic State (IS) militants.Britain announced the deployment after Turkey said on Monday it would allow Iraqi

DHAKA: The chief executive of French oil major Total, Christophe de Margerie, was killed in an airplane collision with a snowplow at Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport, airport spokeswoman Elena Krylova said on Tuesday."Tonight, a plane crashed when it collided with a

DHAKA: Oscar Pistorius was sentenced in South Africa on Tuesday to five years in prison for the 2013 shooting death of his then-girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp.He was also given a 3-year suspended sentence for a firearms conviction, reports the Huffington Post.Last month, Judge

DHAKA: South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is set to discover whether he faces a prison term for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.  Judge Thokozile Masipa has heard the prosecution call for a minimum 10-year sentence, against a defence argument for community service and

DHAKA: Heath Streak can relate his situation to Frank Lampard playing for Manchester City against Chelsea, where the English footballer played for 13 seasons.  In Streak's case the connection is deeper. He is a living legend in Zimbabwe who is now plotting against them as Bangladesh's

DHAKA: 14 women and three men have died in the fire that broke out at a firecracker factory in Andhra Pradesh on Monday, three days before the Diwali festival, ndtv.com reports on Tuesday. Six people died of severe burn injuries in hospital this morning.  The police say two more women

DHAKA: A child is killed by violence every five minutes in the world, a leading charity says, calling for new targets to end all forms of abuse by 2030. In a report, the UK's branch of the UN children's agency Unicef says most of those deaths occur outside war zones, reports BBC. It

DHAKA:  Vital supplies and resources to tackle Ebola are beginning to arrive in the three worst-hit West African countries, Ghana's President John Mahama has said. Mahama, who heads the regional bloc Ecowas, also told the BBC that treatment centres were being set up in Guinea, Liberia

DHAKA: ISIS militants launched about 15 near-simultaneous attacks on Kurdish forces in northern Iraq on Monday in what Kurdish government officials and the news agency Rudaw said was a fierce and renewed push for territory. ISIS also launched attacks against Mosul Dam, a strategic prize,

DHAKA:  The United Nations is preparing to impose sanctions on five prominent Yemenis, including Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former president. A UN panel of experts found that the individuals had been undermining Yemen's democratic transition. Three of those named are leaders of the Houthi

DHAKA: Joko Widodo, the winner of Indonesia's presidential election in July, has been sworn in as the leader of the South East Asian nation.Popularly known as Jokowi, the 53-year-old took the oath of office at a ceremony held at parliament in Jakarta, BBC reports. US Secretary of State