DHAKA: French president Francois Hollande hopes to convince Iran to pursue a political solution to the civil war in Syria when he meets his Iranian counterpart next week.Hollande and Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, who took office last month, are due to meet on Tuesday on the sidelines

DHAKA: Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said he had arrived in Beijing on Saturday after accusing the United States of refusing his plane access to its airspace for the journey.‘I have just arrived in China to strengthen friendship and cooperation between our two countries,’ said

DHAKA: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founder of the Taliban, is released from prison in Pakistan, officials say. The move comes after persistent requests by the Afghan government which hopes it will help the peace process in the country.Mullah Baradar is one of the four men who founded

DHAKA: A four-megaton nuclear bomb was one switch away from exploding over the US in 1961, a newly declassified US document confirms.Two bombs were on board a B-52 plane that went into an uncontrolled spin over North Carolina - both bombs fell and one began the detonation process.The

NEWYORK: Bangladesh will be placed as a role model at the General Assembly of United Nation for achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG). Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will deliver her speech to unveil success stories of Bangladesh to the rest of the world.Hasina will fly to New York on

RIYADH: Zam Zam office targeted that they would supply 34 Millions (380 lakhs) liters of Zam Zam water to pilgrims on the current hajj season. Zam Zam office chairman Suleiman Abu Gelya said that more than 1,100 staffers, including some temporary workers, will distribute Zamzam water to

DHAKA: The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) says it has begun to examine the first details of Syria`s chemical arsenal supplied by the government of President Bashar al-Assad.China urged a quick implementation of a landmark US-Russian deal to destroy

DHAKA: Voters in Sri Lanka`s north have begun electing their first ever semi-autonomous council, four years after the army defeated Tamil Tiger rebels.The Tamil-majority Northern Province, which was first promised such a body decades ago, is the only region which has never had its own

DHAKA: Former Afghan Taliban second-in-command Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is to be released from prison in Pakistan on Saturday, the foreign ministry says.A spokesman said the release was to "further facilitate the Afghan reconciliation process".Mullah Baradar is one of the four men who

LONDON: The Qatar based Al Jazeera TV broadcast a documentary on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made by international eminent journalist late David Frost.The documentary titled “Bangabandhu, the hero of liberation” was aired at GMT 20:00 on September 20.This is the last documentary

DHAKA: America`s top diplomat pressed hard Thursday for international action in Syria in the wake of last month`s chemical weapons attack, saying "the U.N. Security Council must be prepared to act next week" given a report he says shows Syria`s government is culpable.Speaking ahead of

DHAKA: A team of British researchers has developed a model for determining how long a planet can expect to be within its sun’s habitable zone – the sweet spot just far enough to the sun so that the planet’s water doesn’t sizzle into vapor but just close enough to the sun so that

DHAKA: The Philippines and Taiwan are braced for super typhoon Usagi, which meteorologists say could become the most powerful storm of 2013.The typhoon was 560km (350 miles) east-southeast of Taiwan and 360km (225 miles) from the northern Philippines on Friday morning, weather officials

DHAKA: Former first daughter Caroline Kennedy has sailed through a confirmation hearing on her way to becoming the US ambassador to Japan.Ms Kennedy, 55, the only surviving child of former President John Kennedy, told a Senate panel she would focus on trade and military ties if

DHAKA: At least 87 people have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria`s north-eastern Borno state, according to local officials.Disguised in military uniforms, the militants set up checkpoints outside the town of Benisheik and shot dead those trying to flee, witnesses

DHAKA: Mexican authorities say 97 people have been killed by storms that hit the country earlier in the week.In the village of La Pintada, near the Pacific coast, a landslide partially engulfed the town.At least 15 bodies have been recovered and almost 70 residents are missing, the

DHAKA: A 5.3-magnitude earthquake has hit the Japanese prefecture that is home to the nuclear power plant crippled in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.The US Geological Survey says the quake struck early Friday at a depth of about 13 miles (22 kilometers) under Fukushima Prefecture

DHAKA: Pope Francis has said the Catholic Church is too focused on preaching about abortion, gay people and contraception and needs to become more merciful.He warned that the Church’s moral structure could “fall like a house of cards” unless it changed.The Pope used the first major

DHAKA: US bank JP Morgan Chase agreed to pay four regulators $920m relating to a $6.2bn loss incurred as a result of the “London Whale” trades.The settlement is the third biggest banking fine by US regulators, and the second largest by UK regulators.As part of the deal JP Morgan

DHAKA: Paying for sex in France may soon become a criminal offence, according to a forthcoming bill whose details were made public this week.The proposed legislation would also overturn a 2003 law that penalises prostitutes overtly offering their services, rules that were intended to