DHAKA: Iran’s new president Hassan Rohani has said that his country would never build nuclear weapons.Rohani also told US broadcaster NBC he had full authority to negotiate with the West over Tehran’s controversial uranium enrichment programme, reports the BBC.And he described a

DHAKA: Egyptian troops and police have stormed the Kerdassah district in the outskirts of Cairo to clear it of "terrorist elements", security officials said, triggering clashes with armed groups based in the area.Vehicles carrying armed personnel were sent into the village on Thursday

DHAKA: The United Nations General Assembly opened its annual session with its gaze firmly fixed on the decades ahead as its new President outlined the need to lay the groundwork for global sustainable development in the years following the end of the current development cycle in 2015.The

DHAKA: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he is committed to a plan to destroy his country`s chemical weapons but warned it could take about a year.Speaking to Fox News, Mr Assad again denied claims that his forces were responsible for a deadly chemical attack near Damascus on 21

DHAKA: Short lines of text on electronic devices may help some dyslexic readers increase their reading speed and comprehension, research suggests.US scientists studied 100 pupils reading on paper and e-readers.On the device, those who struggled most with sight-word reading read faster and

DHAKA: Iran is reported to have freed at least eight political prisoners, including noted human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh.Ms Sotoudeh was arrested in 2010 and jailed for six years on charges of acting against national security.The release of the political prisoners comes just days

DHAKA: Cristiano Ronaldo underlined just why Real Madrid agreed to pay him the big bucks on a scintillating evening of European football.The 28-year-old, who inked a new five-year deal with the Spanish club on Sunday, completed a brilliant hat trick as Real raced to a 6-1 rout against

DHAKA: At least five people are dead after a Via Rail train and an Ottawa city bus collided at a level crossing in the city`s south-west end Wednesday morning, according to Canada’s CTV News.Fire officials in Ottawa confirmed there have been ‘multiple fatalities’ and at least a

DHAKA: Russia will show the UN Security Council evidence it has received from Syria’s government pointing to the use of chemical weapons by rebels in the Damascus suburbs.Russian news agencies quoted foreign minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem

DHAKA: The head of the UN inspection team that visited Syria following the August 21 chemical weapons attack in eastern Damascus said on Wednesday that his team plans to return to the war-torn country as early as next week.CNN reported, says The Jerusalem Post.The team intends to follow

DHAKA: Police say there are multiple deaths after a Via Rail passenger train and a transit bus collided at a crossing in Canada’s capital, Ottawa.Witnesses said on Wednesday the front end of the double-decker bus was ripped off by the impact, reports gulfnews.com.Ottawa Fire spokesman

DHAKA: An Iranian official said on Wednesday that he saw an ‘opening’ in Iran’s nuclear dispute with the West, a news agency reported, in the latest signal that Tehran expects fresh movement to break a decade-old deadlock.The United States and its allies believe Iran is seeking a

DHAKA: A majority of Europeans and Americans strongly oppose their countries intervening militarily in Syria’s 30-month-old civil war, according to a transatlantic poll published on Wednesday.‘Transatlantic Trends’, an annual survey of public opinion in the United States and Europe,

DHAKA: Egypt partially reopened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a week after it was closed in response to a deadly attack on an Egyptian military headquarters near the frontier.Witnesses said two buses took 100 passengers into Egypt through the Rafah crossing, the

DHAKA: The French senate has overwhelmingly approved a proposal to ban beauty contests for girls under 16 to prevent what a parliamentary report called the ‘hyper-sexualisation’ of children.The proposal was backed by 146 lawmakers and there was only one dissenting vote on Tuesday

DHAKA: Jordan’s King Abdullah II held talks on the Syrian crisis with Chinese president Xi Jinping on Wednesday, he said during a state visit.In a meeting with Xi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the king described China as ‘a team member of the United Nations Security

DHAKA: Taliban gunmen shot and killed the head of the Independent Election Commission in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province on Wednesday, a day after he warned that deteriorating security threatened next year’s presidential elections.Amanullah Amaan began his work during the first

DHAKA: The Syrian regime has handed Russia new materials implicating rebels in a chemical attack outside Damascus on August 21, Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday after talks in Damascus.‘The corresponding materials were handed to the Russian side. We were

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama said on Tuesday that Iran’s new president Hassan Rohani appears to want to open a dialogue with the United States and that he is willing to test whether this is the case.Obama’s comment in an interview with Spanish-language network Telemundo was the

DHAKA: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ returned to the streets of New York on Tuesday to mark the second anniversary of the birth of the social protest movement.Some 250 people gathered at midday in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan’s downtown financial district, where the movement first gained