DHAKA: One of the greatest mysteries of the Himalayas may have finally been solved.Genetic testing has led scientists to believe that the abominable snowman - the Yeti, actually existed but it was actually a cross between an ancient polar bear and brown bear.Hair samples from what is

DHAKA: A series of major wildfires are burning in the Australian state of New South Wales with fears that hundreds of homes have been destroyed.Fire crews are still tackling the blazes on the outskirts of Sydney, despite temperatures and winds easing.One man has died while trying to

DHAKA: The man being investigated by Norwegian police over the attack on Kenya`s Westgate shopping centre is Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow.The 23-year-old Norwegian citizen of Somali origin is suspected of helping to plan and carry out the attack.BBC Newsnight has spoken to a relative of his in

DHAKA: Suspected Maoists on Thursday struck again in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra in India and killed three policemen in a landmine blast and a gunbattle at Jhilia village, bordering Chhattisgarh, some 300 km from eastern part of Maharashtra.Two jawans were reported to have been

DHAKA: Islamist militants killed two Tunisian policemen in clashes on Thursday in the northeastern city of Goubellat.A Tunisian security source told media, reports The Jerusalem Post.Gunmen linked to groups such as Ansar al-Sharia carry out occasional attacks on security forces in

DHAKA: Talks this week between Iran and six global powers over Tehran’s nuclear programme were ‘very tough but quite, quite promising’.Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday, reports The Jerusalem Post.He sounded more upbeat than deputy foreign

DHAKA: Palestine president Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday invited Pope Francis to visit the Holy Land, matching a standing invitation from Israel.The pontiff, who has made many appeals for peace in the Middle East since his election in March, has already accepted an invitation from Israeli

DHAKA: The US Congress on Wednesday approved an 11th-hour deal to end a partial government shutdown and pull the world’s biggest economy back from the brink of a historic debt default that could have threatened financial calamity.Capping weeks of political brinkmanship that had unnerved

DHAKA: A Canadian national working for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Golan Heights has been released.Syrian state television reported on Thursday, eight months after he was reported to have been captured by rebel fighters, says The Jerusalem Post.The television channel

DHAKA: A suicide bomber driving a truck packed with explosives blew himself up in a village in northern Iraq, killing at least 11 people early on Thursday.Iraq police said, reports The Jerusalem Post.The attack targeted members of Iraq’s predominantly Shia Shabak minority in the village

DHAKA: Some 30 million people are enslaved worldwide, trafficked into brothels, forced into manual labour, victims of debt bondage or even born into servitude.A global index on modern slavery has shown, reports Hurriyet.Almost half are in India, where slavery ranges from bonded labour in

DHAKA: Rebels fighting president Bashar al-Assad’s government in southern Syria declared Wednesday that the main opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) had ‘failed’ and that they would no longer recognise the Western-backed group.The video statement signed by nearly 70 groups

DHAKA: What many commuters choking on smog have long suspected has finally been scientifically validated: air pollution causes lung cancer.The International Agency for Research on Cancer declared on Thursday that air pollution is a carcinogen, alongside known dangers such as asbestos,

DHAKA: A team of reporters from Sky News Arabia has gone missing in the contested city of Aleppo in northern Syria.The Abu Dhabi-based channel said on Thursday, reports gulfnews.com.Since Syria’s uprising erupted in March 2011, the country has become the most dangerous in the world for

DHAKA: Syrian deputy prime minister Qadri Jamil said on Thursday that a long-delayed international conference aimed to bring the Syrian government and opposition together to seek an end to the country’s civil war is scheduled to be held Nov. 23-24.Jamil named the dates when he was asked

DHAKA: Rescue workers were forced on Thursday onto boats and helicopters to help thousands of isolated survivors of a powerful earthquake in the Philippines, as the death toll climbed to 158.Road access to the worst-hit towns on the central island of Bohol remained cut, two days after the

DHAKA: The groom is 103 years old. The bride is 99. And after 80 years together, this Paraguayan couple has finally tied the knot in the eyes of the church.From his wheelchair, Jose Manuel Riella married Martina Lopez Saturday in the backyard of their home, some 320km north of the

DHAKA: A plane carrying 49 passengers and crew that crashed in southern Laos hit bad weather as it came into land..Officials in the South East Asian nation said, reports the BBC.The Laos Airlines plane, flying from the capital Vientiane, crashed into the Mekong river on Wednesday near its

DHAKA: The head of the International Monetary Fund welcomed a last-ditch vote Wednesday in the US Congress to end a government shutdown and raise the government`s debt ceiling.IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde described the decision as "important and necessary" but did not directly

DHAKA: The US Congress has passed a bill to reopen the government and raise the federal debt limit, with hours to spare before the nation risked default.The Democratic-controlled Senate`s bipartisan compromise won approval by 81 votes to 18.The bill was then passed by 285-144 in the House