DHAKA: Australia’s new prime minister Tony Abbott unveiled his incoming Cabinet on Monday, attracting immediate criticism for including only one woman.Conservative Liberal leader Abbott was elected by an overwhelming majority on September 7, and in his first press conference since

DHAKA: A suicide bomber driving a carful of explosives killed three policemen in Russia’s Chechnya region on Monday as he tried to ram his car into a police station.‘Three policemen have died as a result of a blast by a suicide bomber,’ Chechnya’s interior ministry said in a

DHAKA: The Philippine military on Monday launched a helicopter assault on Muslim rebels who have occupied parts of a major southern city, as the crisis entered its eighth day.‘Targeted air strike by the Philippine Air Force (is) ongoing,’ the Zamboanga city government said in a

DHAKA: Relatives have shot dead three women in a lawless tribal area of north-west Pakistan after one of them left her husband, officials said on Monday.The ‘honour’ killings happened in Jawaki village in the Darra Adam Khel district, between the cities of Peshawar and Kohat.A

DHAKA: The most senior woman police officer in Afghanistan’s troubled Helmand province has died in hospital after being shot by unknown gunmen, officials say.Lieutenant Negar, known only by her surname, was shot near the police headquarters in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah,

DHAKA: A passenger bus collided with a truck and plunged into a riverbed in southwest China, killing 16 people including 11 students, authorities said.The accident happened on Sunday afternoon in a village in Dazhou city in Sichuan province.The truck overturned and the sand and

DHAKA: French President Francois Hollande has described the US-Russia deal on Syria’s chemical weapons as an “important step” towards the much bigger goal of a political solution to the civil war.But in a TV address Hollande also said: “The military option must remain; otherwise

DHAKA: At least 19 people have been killed in Mexico, which is being battered by two powerful storms.Hurricane Ingrid has caused floods and sent thousands to emergency shelter on Mexico’s Gulf Coast. It is expected to make landfall later on Monday.On the Pacific coast, Tropical Storm

DHAKA: Veteran actor Dilip Kumar, has been admitted to Mumbai`s Lilavati Hospital on Sunday after he developed chest complications.90-year-old Kumar who is married to actress Saira Bhanu, has acted in many memorable Bollywood movies including Devdas, Karma and Kranti.Dilip Kumar was

DHAKA: A high-ranking Pakistani general has been killed in a bomb attack claimed by the Taliban near the Afghan border.The Pakistani army said, reports Al Jazeera.Major General Sanaullah Khan was the top army commander in a northwestern region, including the volatile Swat Valley.A

DHAKA: With its defence ties with India growing at a rapid pace, Israel on Sunday asserted that it will not supply any weapons systems and military hardware to Pakistan, saying the policy in this regard was ‘very clear’ and ‘strict’.India’s Israeli ambassador Alon Ushpiz said

DHAKA: The United Nations has formally accepted Syria’s application to join the chemical weapons convention, a spokesperson said.The UN welcomed Syria joining the Chemical Weapons Convention, after it received the formal instrument of accession to it by the Assad regime.Syria applied

DHAKA: An Indian army jawan allegedly attempted to rape a sleeping woman passenger in an air-conditioned coach of a running train in Assam in the wee hours of Sunday.India railway police sources said, reports Hindustan Times.The incident occurred in Guwahati-Ledo Inter City Express and

DHAKA: One of Nigeria’s most senior Anglican clerics, who was kidnapped by armed men more than a week ago, has been freed.Archbishop Ignatius Kattey was released without a ransom on Saturday evening near the southern city of Port Harcourt, police said.He was in a stable condition,

DHAKA: Unknown gunmen shot and seriously injured the top female police officer in Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province on Sunday, just months after her high-profile predecessor was killed, officials said.Nigar, who like many Afghans uses only one name, was expected to survive the

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama rejected Russian president Vladimir Putin’s claim that Syrian rebels were responsible for an August 21 chemical gas attack but, in an interview broadcast on Sunday, he welcomed Putin’s diplomatic role in the crisis.Obama, in an interview on ABC’s

DHAKA: More than 2,100 Syrian officers have fled to Jordan since the start of the conflict in their country in 2011.The kingdom’s interior minister said in remarks published on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.‘Jordan is hosting around 2,130 Syrian officers of different military

DHAKA: The US-Russia deal aimed at removing Syrian chemical weapons averted war and is ‘a victory for Syria’.The Syrian minister of state for national reconciliation Ali Haidar said Sunday, reports TDS.‘On one hand, it will help the Syrians emerge from the crisis and on the other it

DHAKA: Japan is to start the process of switching off its last working nuclear reactor on Sunday for a scheduled inspection with no restart in sight due to public hostility towards atomic power.The move will leave the world`s third largest economy without atomic energy for the second time

DHAKA: Indonesia Muslim hard-liners have resumed protests in the country’s capital and two other cities against the Miss World pageant being held in the resort island of Bali.Several hundred members of the Islamic Defenders Front and Islamic Society Forum held a rally late Saturday in