DHAKA: China`s maritime authorities issued red alerts on Sunday, representing the highest warning for storm tides and waves as Typhoon Fitow approached land, the country`s state news agency, Xinhua, said.Fitow battered the remote southern Japanese island of Okinawa late Saturday, with

DHAKA: Four soldiers serving with the Nato-led international force in Afghanistan have been killed in the south of the country.Nato said they were killed by enemy combatants while taking part in an operation alongside Afghan forces.It did not give the nationalities of those who died, but

DHAKA: The Obama administration will press ahead Friday with tough requirements for new coal-fired power plants, moving to impose for the first time strict limits on the pollution blamed for global warming.The proposal would help reshape where Americans get electricity, away from a

DHAKA: At least 18 Afghan police officers have been killed and 13 wounded in a Taliban ambush in northern Badakhshan province, the interior ministry says.The police were in Wardooj district and on their way back to the provincial capital after an anti-insurgent operation when they came

DHAKA: Syria has begun sending details of its chemical weapons as part of a US-Russia brokered deal to make them safe, the chemical arms watchdog has said.The Hague-based OPCW added that it expected more details from Syria in the coming days and had postponed a meeting planned for

DHAKA: At least 30 soldiers have died after suspected militants launched an attack on an army camp in southern Yemen, sources say.Two car bombs were reportedly exploded in the attack at the post in Shabwa province.The government is battling al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula militants who

DHAKA: Emergency teams are searching for hundreds of people still missing after Colorado`s deadly floods.State officials said that more than 300 are still unaccounted for, but many are believed to be merely cut off in remote areas inundated by the historic torrential rains.Several towns

DHAKA: A Boston-area man who plotted to kidnap children, rape and eat them, was sentenced Tuesday to more than 26 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release, according to court documents from the United States district attorney`s office.Geoffrey Portway, 40, was also

DHAKA: The five permanent UN Security Council members have met in New York to discuss a resolution on making safe Syria`s chemical weapons.A resolution is seen as a key step in a US-Russia brokered plan under which Syria will disclose its arsenal within a week and eliminate it by

DHAKA: At least 16 prisoners have been killed in violence inside a jail in the western Venezuelan city of Maracaibo.Fifteen inmates died in fights between rival gangs, Prisons Minister Iris Varela said. The other victim was killed in a separate incident.Some of the inmates were beheaded

DHAKA: Tony Abbott has been sworn in as Australia`s prime minister, days after his Liberal-National coalition ended six years of Labor government.Mr Abbott, 55, took the oath at Government House in Canberra in front of Governor-General Quentin Bryce.His conservative coalition won a

DHAKA: Just two weeks after the global announcement of Galaxy Gear and Galaxy Note 3, Samsung launched the two devices in India. While the Galaxy Note 3 has been priced at Rs 49,900 , the Galaxy Gear, which is a smartwatch, will be sold at a price of Rs 22,990. Note 3 and Gear will be

DHAKA: Syria has admitted that its helicopter shot down on Monday was in Turkish airspace but accused Ankara of being ‘hasty’ in attacking the aircraft.However, Bulent Arinc, Turkey’s deputy prime minister, said the helicopter was shot down after it had travelled two kilometres into

DHAKA: Egyptian police arrested Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad on Tuesday, three security officials said, a high-profile detention in the army-backed authorities crackdown on the Islamist movement.Haddad was arrested with two other Brotherhood officials in an apartment in

DHAKA: Typhoon Man-yi hit central Japan on Monday, with almost 300,000 households told to evacuate and fears the storm could go on to hit the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.The typhoon made landfall in Toyohashi, Aichi prefecture, shortly before 8:00am, packing gusts of up to 162

DHAKA: South Korean workers have returned to the Kaesong industrial park in North Korea, five months after work was halted amid high political tension.Trucks and cars began crossing the border into North Korea at exactly 08:00 (23:00 GMT Sunday).More than 800 South Koreans were due to

DHAKA: The Indian police on Monday were interrogating a school bus cleaner after his arrest on suspicion of raping a four-year-old in the vehicle on the outskirts of Mumbai earlier this month.The 26-year-old was arrested at the weekend after the girl told her parents of the incident more

DHAKA: The United Nations atomic agency said on Monday it will sign an agreement with Myanmar aimed at clearing up lingering suspicions that its military junta might have sought nuclear weapons.Myanmar was suspected of pursuing military and nuclear cooperation with North Korea during the

DHAKA: France, Britain and the United States agreed at three-way Paris talks on Monday to seek a ‘strong and robust’ UN resolution that sets precise and binding deadlines on removal of chemical weapons.The office of French president Francois Hollande said, reports The Jerusalem

DHAKA: India prime minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi visited Muzaffarnagar this morning, where nearly 50 people were killed in communal riots so severe that the army was called in for the first time in over a decade to restore law and