DHAKA: Nearly two dozen ships and aircraft are picking up the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in fair weather Friday, seeking a breakthrough in the seas far off Australia.The day`s search area has been refined to about 217,000 square kilometers (83,800 square miles) of a remote

DHAKA: The White House confirms a US government aid agency was behind a text-message service that was allegedly designed to foment unrest in Cuba.ZunZuneo, dubbed a "Cuban Twitter", had 40,000 subscribers at its height in a country with limited web access, reports the Associated Press.The

DHAKA: Germany’s ambassador to Russia has been summoned by the Russian foreign ministry over remarks by finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble likening Russian moves in Crimea to Nazi Germany.Russian ministry said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.‘We consider such pseudo-historical

DHAKA: Malaysia will not rest until it can give answers to the distraught families of those on board missing Flight MH370.Malaysia prime minister Najib Razak said on Thursday, admitting the search was a ‘gargantuan’ challenge, reports The Straits Times.International efforts to find

DHAKA: Former US ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter has dismissed rumours that Pakistan knew Osama Bin Laden was hiding within its borders and says there is no evidence to back the claims.Speaking at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Munter said, ‘It’s not

DHAKA: NASA has cut ties with Russia except for cooperation aboard the International Space Station due to the crisis in Ukraine.The US space agency said Wednesday, daily Hurriyet publishes this report on Thursday.‘Given Russia’s ongoing violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and

DHAKA: He may still be in nappies but Prince George embarks on his first official tour this weekend as Britain’s younger royals ride a wave of popularity that is expected to dampen republican movements in Australia and New Zealand.The eight-month-old prince, third-in-line to the British

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry threw down a challenge to recalcitrant Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Thursday, saying now was the time when they had to choose whether to make peace.‘You can facilitate, you can push, you can nudge, but the parties themselves have to make

DHAKA: Ukraine on Thursday accused both ousted pro-Kremlin president Viktor Yanukovych and Russian security agents of being responsible for February unrest in Kiev that claimed nearly 90 lives.Acting interior minister Arsen Avakov said Yanukovych issued the ‘criminal order’ to fire at

DHAKA: A bomb has targeted the convoy route of Pakistan’s former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, within minutes of him passing.Pakistan police say, reports the BBC.They said it was an attempt to target the former president, however, no casualties were reported.The blast struck a

DHAKA: Strict building codes and the preparedness of millions of Chileans who live along an arc of volcanoes and fault lines likely kept the death toll -- only six by Wednesday afternoon -- low after an 8.2-magnitude earthquake rumbled offshore and prompted a tsunami, observers

DHAKA: A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake has rocked northern Chile, just over 24 hours after an 8.2 tremor killed six people, destroyed 2,600 houses and led to mass evacuations.A tsunami alert in Chile and Peru was again issued, but was later lifted after waves of 2.4ft (0.7 meters) hit

DHAKA: As many as four people were killed and 14 were wounded after a gunman in uniform opened fire at Fort Hood on Wednesday, shutting down the sprawling Army base and inciting a huge police response, a member of Congress said. The shooting echoed the deadly rampage carried out there in

DHAKA: Chile’s army has been deployed to the northern city of Iquique after some 300 inmates escaped from a women’s jail following an 8.2-magnitude earthquake.Officials said about 26 had so far been captured since the quake at 20:46 local time (23:46 GMT) on Tuesday.Chile’s

DHAKA: Palestine on Wednesday submitted applications to join international organizations and treaties.The applications were handed over to the representatives of the UN, Switzerland and Holland by Palestine foreign minister Riad Malki, reports The Jerusalem Post.The move came one day

DHAKA: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday expressed confidence of defeating Narendra Modi in Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency in the general election, saying that he had not chosen a ‘safe’ seat since his main objective was to beat the BJP’s prime ministerial

DHAKA: Australia’s highest court on Wednesday recognised the existence of a third ‘non-specific’ gender that is neither male nor female, in a landmark ruling campaigners said will help end years of discrimination.The High Court ruled that not everyone should be forced to identify as

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has introduced a series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according to a report from Human Rights Watch.In a string of royal decrees and an overarching new piece of legislation to deal with terrorism generally, the Saudi King Abdullah has clamped down on

DHAKA: A suicide bomber blew himself up at the Afghan interior ministry Wednesday, killing six police officers just three days before the country’s presidential election, which the Taleban have vowed to disrupt.The attack came as the three leading candidates to succeed president Hamid

DHAKA: A police brigadier-general has been killed in a twin bomb blast near Cairo University.Egyptian state media say, reports the BBC.Four others were also injured in the attack, the health ministry confirmed.The explosives were planted next to a police post, officials at the scene said.