DHAKA: The underwater search for black boxes from the missing Malaysia Flight MH370 is at a critical juncture.Malaysia’s Defence Minister and Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said on Saturday.A lot rests on what the mini-submarine scouring a stretch of the Indian Ocean

DHAKA: Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has called for unity in a new interview amid widening divisions with a rival jihadist organisation rooted in the Syrian civil war.The interview, which the SITE monitoring service dated to between February and April, was released after the Islamic

DHAKA: Rescuers searched Mount Everest for bodies on Saturday as authorities ruled out hope of finding any more survivors from an avalanche that killed at least 12 Nepalese guides in the deadliest accident ever on the world’s highest peak.Four sherpas were still missing from Friday’s

DHAKA: The captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized three days ago was reportedly arrested early Saturday, as divers overcame strong currents and near zero visibility to enter the submerged vessel for the first time.A team of police and prosecutors had sought on Friday arrest

DHAKA: Lee Joon-seok, Captain of the South Korean sunken ferry Sewol, said sorry and sought apology to his nation and to the bereaved families those lost or are yet to find their dear ones, reports Yonhap News Agency.Captain Lee, 52, said, "I am really sorry and deeply ashamed. I don`t

DHAKA: A teacher rescued from the capsized South Korean ferry has been found hanged on Friday afternoon, reports Wall Street Journal.The deceased was identified as Kang Min-gyu, 52, was a part of more than 300 teachers and students on board the Sewol ferry and was reported missing on

DHAKA: The Guardian published ‘five must reads’ of Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who died on Thursday.They said this Nobel Lariat found his voice with his 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.We round up the key texts from the master of magic

DHAKA: Just take an hour and another half to lure someone to your side and make him/her fall in love with you-- Sounds implausible? It’s not.Science has proved that 90 minutes is the perfect time to get two hearts pounding to a single beat.Cosmopolitan reports that a US study introduced

DHAKA: When Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born, in 1927, in the sleepy little town of Aracataca, not far from Colombia’s Caribbean coast, there were certain established fixities in the world of letters reports — The Time.They said that the centers of gravity were Europe and North

DHAKA: Tweelve Nepalese guides have been killed while nine more are missing over an early-morning avalanche on the slopes of Mount Everest on Friday 6:30am.The Breaking News reports this at on Friday morning while there were nine deceased till the morning 8am according to The Huffington

DHAKA: At least 12 soldiers were killed and 12 others wounded in an attack on a military base in a restive area of northern Iraq.Thursday`s attack took place at the base outside the city of Mosul, about 360 kilometres northwest of Baghdad, when a suicide bomber detonated his

DHAKA: Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died on Thursday in Mexico.He was 87, says BBC.   Garcia Marquez was considered one of the greatest Spanish-language authors, best known for his masterpiece of magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude.The 1967

DHAKA: Russia, Ukraine, the US and the European Union have said that all sides have agreed to steps to "de-escalate" the crisis in eastern Ukraine. Their foreign ministers were speaking at the end of talks between Russia, Ukraine, the EU and US in the Swiss city of Geneva, says

DHAKA: Dozens of civilians sheltering in a UN base in the South Sudan town of Bor were killed in an attack by armed youths, reports BBC. Toby Lanzer, the UN`s top aid official in South Sudan, told the BBC that the youths broke through the gates and opened fire.UN peacekeepers returned

DHAKA: At least 10 soldiers have been killed and 12 others were wounded in an attack on a military base in a restive area of northern Iraq.Thursday’s attack took place at the base outside the city of Mosul, about 360 kilometres northwest of Baghdad, when a suicide bomber detonated his

DHAKA: London Underground workers are to take five days of strike action over Tube ticket office closures.The RMT Union has announced, reports the BBC.The row is about the closure of all 260 Tube ticket offices and 960 job cuts.Members will walk out from 21:00 BST on 28 April for two days

DHAKA: Mystery surrounds the fate of more than 100 teenage girls who were abducted from a school in the remote north-east of Nigeria.The military says all but eight of the 129 girls have escaped, but parents of the girls say many are still missing.It is thought Islamist militant group

DHAKA: Malaysia warned Thursday that the cost of the search for flight MH370’s wreckage in the vast depths of the Indian Ocean will be ‘huge’, the latest sobering assessment by authorities involved in the challenging effort.‘When we look at salvaging (wreckage) at a depth of 4.5

DHAKA: UK media is reporting that a 12-year-old has just delivered her 13-year-old boyfriend’s baby, making them the country’s youngest parents.Their daughter, who weighs 7 pounds, was reportedly born last weekend.She fell pregnant at 11, while still at primary school, shortly after

DHAKA: An oil slick sighted during the sea search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 did not come from the plane, officials said on Thursday, dashing hopes of finding a definitive answer to the fate of the jet.‘Preliminary analysis of the sample collected by ADV Ocean Shield has