DHAKA: At least 100 people were killed in weekend attacks on three villages in central Nigeria.Local officials said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.‘We have at least 100 dead bodies from the three villages attacked by the gunmen’ overnight Friday to Saturday, Yakubu Bitiyong, a

DHAKA: North Korea Sunday test-fired ten rockets into the sea, South Korea’s defence ministry said, the latest in a series of launches that have provoked criticism from Seoul and Washington.The rockets were fired off the North’s east coast and flew about 70 kilometres into the Sea of

DHAKA: Crimea is voting on whether to re-join Russia or stay with Ukraine, a referendum condemned as ‘illegal’ by Kiev and the West but backed by Moscow.Russian troops have taken de facto control of the majority ethnic-Russian region, and voters are expected to support leaving

DHAKA: Ukraine’s former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, urged Western powers Sunday to unite on a hard line against Russian president Vladimir Putin in the Crimea crisis.‘This aggressive striving for power with regard to Ukraine represents not only a danger for the Ukrainian state,

DHAKA: No groups have made any demands over the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370, acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said, even as he refuted rumours that the plane has landed somewhere.He also declined to comment on speculation that it could be a 9/11 style attack, saying only

DHAKA: A whopping Rs 30,000 crore is likely to be spent by the government, political parties and candidates in the upcoming Lok Sabha election, making it by far the most expensive electoral exercise in Indian history.The projected expenditure to elect the 16th Lok Sabha is set to rival

DHAKA: A whopping Rs 30,000 crore is likely to be spent by the government, political parties and candidates in the upcoming Lok Sabha election, making it by far the most expensive electoral exercise in Indian history.The projected expenditure to elect the 16th Lok Sabha is set to rival

DHAKA: India on Sunday suspended its search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 around the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands and in the Bay of Bengal and are awaiting fresh instructions from Malaysia.A defence official said, reports gulfnews.com.‘The entire operation is on hold for now.

DHAKA: Voting got underway in Crimea on Sunday as the inhabitants of this Ukrainian region began to cast their ballots in a referendum aimed at deciding whether the peninsula leaves Ukraine and becomes part of Russia.European leaders and US president Barack Obama have dismissed the vote,

DHAKA: As authorities now look into the possibility that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may have been hijacked, reports have emerged about the potential runways where the missing aircraft could have landed.Mirror in Britain reported that with enough fuel to fly anywhere from Pakistan to

DHAKA: Malaysian police have searched the homes of the pilots of the Malaysia Airlines plane that vanished eight days ago with 239 people on board.The police are also reportedly looking at family life and psychological state of pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid,

DHAKA: Russia has been exposed as isolated over the crisis in Ukraine, with members of the UN Security Council overwhelmingly supporting a draft resolution condemning an upcoming referendum on the future of Crimea as illegal.The vote on Saturday comes as reports claimed that Russian

DHAKA: Crimea is set to vote on whether to re-join Russia or stay with Ukraine - a referendum condemned as "illegal" by Kiev and the West but backed by Moscow.Russian troops have taken de facto control of the majority ethnic-Russian region, and voters are expected to support leaving

DHAKA: Police began searching the home of the pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Saturday, after the country’s prime minister confirmed the plane was suspected to have been deliberately diverted.A senior police official told media, reports The Straits Times.Police

DHAKA: Two people have been killed in clashes between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian activists in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv.Officials say, reports the BBC.Five people were injured overnight, as gunshots were fired. Rival groups blamed each other for the violence.Earlier, Russia

DHAKA: China’s foreign ministry said on Saturday it was demanding that Malaysia keep providing more thorough and accurate information about a Malaysia Airlines flight that was on its way to Beijing when it disappeared a week ago.China is also asking Malaysia to get more countries

DHAKA: There is a ‘high degree of certainty’ that the data reporting system of Malaysia Airlines MH370 was disabled just before it reached the east coast of peninular Malaysia.Malaysia prime minister Najib Razak said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.But he reiterated that the

DHAKA: Several army police officers have been killed in an attack on a checkpoint on the outskirts of Cairo.Egyptian state media report, says Al Jazeera.The state news agency said gunmen opened fire at the checkpoint on Saturday morning.It was the latest in a series of attacks on security

DHAKA: The head of the investigation into the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has denied any evidence of hijacking.The Telegraph has reported, says The Straits Times.Rather, hijacking is just one of a number of possible lines that they are looking at.His comments came after a Malaysian

DHAKA: An arrest warrant has been issued against Devyani Khobragade as US prosecutors re-indicted her on visa fraud charges and accused the Indian diplomat of ‘illegally’ underpaying and ‘exploiting’ her domestic help.In a letter to United States District Judge William Pauley, US