DHAKA: The head of the European Union’s Afghan election observer mission condemned the suspension of mobile text messaging services across the country on Saturday, saying it threatened the transparency of the poll.Cellphone users were able to make calls but not send SMS messages in an

DHAKA: At least 23 people were killed in clashes between rival families in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan.Egypt health and security officials said on Saturday, reports gulfnews.com.The violence erupted late on Friday after students from the feuding families had scrawled insulting

DHAkA: Ukraine energy minister Yuri Prodan said on Saturday Kiev would not take natural gas from pipelines that deliver supplies to European consumers if Russia turns off gas to Ukraine.Russia has accused Ukraine of stealing gas from pipelines that transit its territory during previous

DHAKA: Polling stations in Saturday’s election to choose a successor to Afghan president Hamid Karzai officially closed at 5pm (1230 GMT).Afghan officials said, reports The Straits Times.But voting was set to continue for some time as voters in line at polling stations would be allowed

DHAKA: Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s wife Eva Braun may have been of Jewish descent according to DNA analysis carried out for a British television documentary.The makers said Saturday, reports The Straits Times.The anti-Semitic German leader responsible for the Holocaust married his

DHAKA: Former deputy prime minister and senior BJP leader LK Advani said Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi will become the next prime minister of India.Senior BJP leader LK Advani on Saturday filed his nominations from the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency in Gujarat.Advani was

DHAKA: A huge night fire sent slum dwellers running for their lives and destroyed more than a thousand homes in the Philippines` largest southern city.Philippine officials said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Davao city’s skyline lit up as firefighters battled for more than five

DHAKA: A Chinese ship searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean has picked up a pulse signal.Chinese media say, reports the BBC.They say the signal has a frequency of 37.5kHz per second, the same as those emitted by the flight recorders.However there

DHAKA: A US Navy ‘black box’ detector made its much-anticipated debut in the oceanic hunt for flight MH370 on Friday but Australia’s search chief warned it was crunch time with the box’s signal set to expire soon.The Australian naval vessel Ocean Shield arrived with a ‘towed

DHAKA: Four weeks to the day since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing, the trawling for clues goes on.The search for physical evidence continues Saturday -- both on the surface of the southern Indian Ocean and deep below it, reports the CNN.The search for digital clues on the hard

DHAKA: Millions of Afghans have started voting to choose a new leader in an election that could lead to the first democratic transfer of power in the nation`s 5,000 year history.After months of manoeuvring, jockeying, tribal meetings and campaigning, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, Abdullah

DHAKA: As Afghanistan goes to polls on Saturday, the exercise promises to be as much of a game-changer as the Indian elections. Whatever the outcome, the fact that it will also constitute the first peaceful transition from one government to another is an achievement in itself.Millions of

DHAKA: The US Treasury has granted plane manufacturer Boeing a licence to export certain spare commercial parts to Iran, a company spokesman says.Boeing has had no public dealings with Tehran since 1979.In a statement, the US company said the licence had been granted for the safety of

DHAKA: Two journalists working for the Associated Press news agency have been shot by a police officer in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.One of the women, Anja Niedringhaus, died in the attack. Her colleague, Kathy Gannon, is reported to be stable.The attack took place in the town of

DHAKA: Two foreign journalists have been shot by a man dressed as a policeman in eastern Afghanistan, reports say.One of the journalists has died, and the other has been critically wounded, Reuters reports quoting police sources.The incident reportedly took place in a small town on

DHAKA: Mozilla Chief Executive Brendan Eich has stepped down, the company said, after an online dating service urged a boycott of the company`s web browser because of a donation Eich made to opponents of gay marriage.The software company came under fire for appointing Eich as CEO last

DHAKA: Towed pinger locators will begin to search the southern Indian Ocean for signs of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Australian officials say.Two ships with pinger locator capabilities will search a 240km (150 mile) track under water, in the hopes of recovering the plane`s

DHAKA: The US Senate Intelligence Committee has voted to recommend declassification of part of its report into "brutal" interrogation methods used by the CIA when questioning terror suspects.But officials say it will be some time before the summary is made public.Leaked parts of the

DHAKA: Israel will not release the fourth batch of Palestinian prisoners because of renewed Palestinian efforts to join international organisations.A spokesman for Tzipi Livni, Israel`s justice minister and the government`s chief negotiator, said on Thursday that the Israeli government

DHAKA: A German skydiver who was participating in a 222-person jump in Arizona was killed Thursday when her main parachute malfunctioned, officials said.Police in Eloy said Diana Paris, 46, of Berlin, was killed Thursday morning, reports the CNN.Paris was taking part in a world-record