DHAKA: The pilot of a Malaysia Airlines jet that went missing on Saturday enjoyed flying the Boeing 777 so much that he spent his off days tinkering with a flight simulator of the plane that he had set up at home.The pilot’s current and former co-workers said, reports

DHAKA: A Chinese family successfully rang the mobile phone of a passenger on board Malaysia Airlines plane MH370 which is still missing after it lost contact with the ground on Saturday.A video clip showing the family member dialing the number made its rounds online on Sunday.The call got

DHAKA: Russian forces took control of a Ukrainian border guard post in western Crimea on Sunday, trapping about 30 personnel inside.A border guard spokesman said, reports The Straits Times.He said by telephone that the Chernomorskoye base on the western edge of the Back Sea peninsula had

DHAKA: Tens of thousands of citizens turned out for an anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo on Sunday, as the nation prepares to mark the third anniversary of the Fukushima disaster.Demonstrators congregated at Hibiya Park, close to central government buildings, before marching around the national

DHAKA: Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Sunday vowed Ukraine would not give ‘an inch’ of its territory to Russia.He said at a rally of thousands of people in Kiev in honour of 19th-century national hero Taras Shevchenko, reports The Times of India.‘This is our land. We

DHAKA: The Israeli army was on Sunday unloading a ship which it intercepted in the Red Sea allegedly transporting arm from Iran to Gaza and escorted to the port of Eilat.An AFP correspondent said dozens of containers from the Panamanian-flagged Klos-C were being unloaded and transferred

DHAKA: Afghanistan’s first vice president, Marshal Mohammed Qassim Fahim, has died, a spokesman of the Afghan government has confirmed.In an online statement on Sunday, presidential spokesman Aimal Faizi said that Fahim had passed away and that the government had called for a national

DHAKA: Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has accused Saudi Arabia and Qatar of openly funding the Sunni Muslim insurgents his troops are battling in western Anbar province, in his strongest such statement since fighting started there early this year.Security forces have been fighting

DHAKA: The EU’s head of foreign policy, Catherine Ashton, has begun talks with Iranian leaders in Tehran.It is her first visit to Iran and comes amid a thaw in relations with the West following last year`s election of moderate Hassan Rouhani as president.She met foreign minister

DHAKA: The FBI is sending agents and technical experts to assist a team probing the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet that had several Americans aboard.US media reported, says The Straits Times.US officials told The Los Angeles Times that they are trying to determine whether there

DHAKA: The US has warned Russia that any moves to annex Crimea would close the door to diplomacy.US Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that Crimea is part of Ukraine and Moscow should avoid military escalation, reports BBC.Meanwhile, US President Barack

DHAKA: Libya has threatened to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker if it tries to export oil from a rebel-controlled port east of Tripoli, in a major escalation of a standoff over the country`s petroleum wealth.The rebels in control of Libya`s eastern ports are attempting to export oil

DHAKA: Hundreds of National Guardsmen in riot gear and armoured vehicles have prevented an `empty pots march` from reaching Venezuela`s Food Ministry to protest against shortages of staple items.More than 5,000 protesters banged pots, blew horns and whistles and carried banners in

DHAKA: Uncertainly over the fate of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was further compounded Saturday by reports that two men whose names matched those on the passenger manifest had reported their passports stolen.Malaysian authorities apparently did not check the stolen documents on

DHAKA: At 7.15am (local time) on a dusty street corner in Rawalpindi, among the dozen rickety minibuses jostling for passengers, a brand-new, bright pink vehicle stands out.Emblazoned with the words ‘Ladies Transport’, this is Pakistan’s first commuter bus solely for women, aimed at

DHAKA: At 7.15am (local time) on a dusty street corner in Rawalpindi, among the dozen rickety minibuses jostling for passengers, a brand-new, bright pink vehicle stands out.Emblazoned with the words ‘Ladies Transport’, this is Pakistan’s first commuter bus solely for women, aimed at

DHAKA: Egypt’s interim president has signed into law a bill aimed at regulating the upcoming presidential election, paving the way for army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to take part and win.Adly Mansour, the interim president, issued the decree on Saturday with the elections commission

DHAKA: Malaysian authorities have reviewed all CCTV recordings including those of the airport’s baggage handling area, and were satisfied about its security.The Department of Civil Aviation director-general Azaruddin Abdul Rahman said at a late press conference on Saturday that they are

DHAKA: Rebels who seized oil ports in eastern Libya say they have loaded oil on to a North Korean-flagged tanker.The Morning Glory docked at Sidra port earlier on Saturday, after a failed attempt to dock on Tuesday.‘We started exporting oil. This is our first shipment,’ a rebel

DHAKA: Government aircraft have dropped have crude ‘barrel bombs’ on an embattled rebel-held city in western Syria, killing civilians, activists said. Death tolls from the reported strikes on Yabroud varied widely, as is often the case during the three-year-long conflict.The