DHAKA: The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday ratified a landmark EU pact that decisively steers the former Soviet state towards the West and away from Russian influence. President Petro Poroshenko told lawmakers the ratification of the association agreement, in a simultaneous vote with the

DHAKA: A Saudi man has asked a man who proposed to his sister to offer her an iPhone 6 as dowry. The prospective groom should present the latest smartphone sensation as soon as it is available on the Saudi market in order for the marriage to go ahead, said the brother, reports

DHAKA: The pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 committed suicide after switching off the oxygen supply of the other passengers. An aviation expert has claimed, reports The Straits Times. In the latest theory to have emerged on what happened to the ill-fated jetliner,

DHAKA: About 120 million girls around the world - slightly more than one in 10 - have been raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 20, a UN report says.The children's agency Unicef also says 95,000 children and teenagers - most of them in Latin America and the Caribbean - were

DHAKA: He was a big boy. A very, very big boy.In fact, the Dreadnoughtus schrani dinosaur unveiled Thursday was one of the biggest -- if not THE biggest -- land animal ever to grace the Earth.Experts estimate that back in his day -- which was the Upper Cretaceous period, approximately

DHAKA: This is story of Kadhim, who escaped from death by fate from an ISIS massacre, published on The New York Times recently. Here we are publishing the story for banglanews24.com readers.Ali Hussein Kadhim, an Iraqi soldier and a Shiite, was captured with hundreds of other

DHAKA: Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has criticised the US for new sanctions, saying they are ‘not compatible’ with the spirit of current negotiations. Speaking on Iranian TV, he said Iran was still committed to continuing nuclear talks with the US and five other international

DHAKA: Several dozen Yazidi women kidnapped by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadists in Iraq have been taken to Syria, forced to convert and sold into marriage to militants. A monitoring group said Saturday, reports The Straits Times. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,

DHAKA: India’s new prime minister Narendra Modi flew into Japan Saturday on a five-day official visit as their governments seek to boost security ties and counter a increasingly assertive China. Modi arrived at Kansai International Airport near Osaka, western Japan, by special plane

DHAKA: A California gay man who is alleged to be HIV positive is accused of intentionally infecting at least two dozen men in and around the San Diego area on Saturday. Two men say 29-year-old Thomas Guerra infected them with the HIV virus, and one man who spoke to KFMB-TV says he’s

DHAKA: Lesotho prime minister Tom Thabane confirmed Saturday that the military had seized power in a coup in the tiny kingdom and that he had fled to neighbouring South Africa in fear of his life. ‘I have been removed from control not by the people but by the armed forces, and that is

DHAKA: An armed group detained 43 UN peacekeepers during fighting in Syria early Thursday and another 81 peacekeepers are trapped, the United Nations said. The United Nations confirmed that an armed group captured 43 UN peacekeepers on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Thursday,

DHAKA: The jihadist Islamic State group has posted video of the execution of a captured Kurdish fighter, in a warning to Iraqi Kurdish leaders to end military cooperation with Washington, a monitoring group said on Friday. The United States has carried out a wave of air strikes against

DHAKA: Malaysia Airlines is to cut 6,000 staff as part of recovery plan after being hit by two disasters this year.The reduction in staff numbers represents around 30% of its workforce of 20,000.The airline will become completely state owned, and a new chief executive will be put in

DHAKA: Paintings by an Indian elephant have gone on sale at a gallery in the capital, Delhi, to help raise money to protect the endangered animals.Artist Alpana Ahuja said she had used bananas and other food to lure Phoolkali to create the artworks.The elephant, who was rescued from

DHAKA: After an earthquake swarm in the area, the Bardarbunga volcano erupted Friday in Iceland. However, a Code Red aviation travel warning with a no-fly zone was issued Friday by the Met Office there. Moreover, earlier another volcano also erupted on the day same in Papua New Guinea,

DHAKA: More than three million Syrians are now registered as refugees and the desperate crisis is only getting worse, the UN's refugee agency says.The UNHCR says Syria is now "the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era" with almost half of all Syrians forced to flee their homes.The

DHAKA: The tenure of India’s Modi government will end on 2018. Meanwhile, his government has moved for a landmark initiative to open bank accounts for 75 million households across the country.The Indian PM, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the ambitious Jan Dhan Yojana on Thursday. He

DHAKA: Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been officially sworn in as Turkish president after winning the country's first public vote for head of state.Mr Erdogan, who served three terms as Prime Minister, has vowed to give more power to the previously ceremonial post.Critics of Mr Erdogan say

DHAKA: The Pakistan government on Thursday said it will register a case of murder against prime minister Nawaz Sharif and 20 others, for their alleged role in the clashes that killed 14 supporters of the cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri. ‘A process for the FIR has started and the government will