MONTERREY: Torrential rain pounded northern Mexico on Wednesday, triggering floods that closed a US-Mexico border bridge and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes.The heaviest rain for several decades has topped off reservoirs in the border states of Coahuila, Nuevo

BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber wearing an explosives-filled belt targeted Shiite pilgrims and murdered 28 people in Baghdad on Wednesday while 11 more were killed in bomb attacks, security officials told AFP.The suicide attack occurred in Adhamiyah, a Sunni district across the Tigris river

LONDON: British troops will hand over control of the violence-wracked Sangin area of southern Afghanistan to US forces by the end of the year, Defence Secretary Liam Fox announced on Wednesday.British forces have suffered their heaviest losses in Sangin with almost 100 deaths in the

banglanews24.com.bd/AFPPAYERNE: An experimental solar-powered aircraft took off from a Swiss airbase here in the early hours of Wednesday in a bid to make history by flying round the clock and through the night. Solar Impulse whirred along the runway at Payerne in western Switzerland,

banglanews24.com.bd/AFP KUPANG: Indonesia has detained 66 asylum-seekers from Afghanistan and Iran who were on their way to Australia when their boat ran aground, police said Wednesday.The migrants, including women and children, were found Tuesday on a beach off East Nusa Tenggara

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan protesters led by a cabinet minister rallied outside the UN office in Colombo on Wednesday, a day after laying siege to the building and trapping staff inside for several hours.The United Nations expressed its anger at the protesters, who said they were campaigning

SYDNEY: Australia`s Defence Minister John Faulkner on Wednesday said he would quit the cabinet after coming elections, but denied his decision was prompted by last month`s abrupt change of prime minister.Faulkner, a Labor Party heavyweight and a known ally of ousted leader Kevin Rudd,

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said Tuesday he hoped for direct Middle East peace talks to start before the end of September, as he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied reports of a rift.The leaders sat close together in the Oval Office and staged a prolonged

MUMBAI: India`s billionaire Ambani brothers are signing deals and drawing up expansion plans after calling a halt to their very public five-year battle over the spoils of their father`s vast business empire. The warring siblings, Mukesh, 53, and Anil, 51, buried the hatchet in May on a

NEW YORK: Britain`s Queen Elizabeth II pleaded for world peace Tuesday in her first visit in five decades to UN headquarters during a whirlwind tour of a sweltering New York.The 84-year-old monarch, who was last in the Big Apple in 1976 and at the UN in 1957, wore a two piece white

LONDON: Princess Diana`s family on Tuesday sold an important Old Master painting by Peter Paul Rubens for nine million pounds (13.6 million dollars, 10.8 million euros) at auction."A Commander Being Armed For Battle", which is thought to depict the 16th-century Holy Roman Emperor, Charles

SEOUL: About 10 North Koreans are believed to have been killed in a traffic accident at a South Korean-funded joint industrial estate just north of the border, a report said Wednesday.The accident happened last Friday evening when a bus carrying homebound North Korean workers at Kaesong

WASHINGTON: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu`s brief visit to Washington seems to have left him with everything he could have wanted from US President Barack Obama, and then some.In 80 minutes of one-on-one talks in the White House on Tuesday, Netanyahu won praise for his recent

WELLINGTON: The undersea world isn`t as quiet as we thought, according to a New Zealand researcher who found fish can "talk" to each other.Fish communicate with noises including grunts, chirps and pops, University of Auckland marine scientist Shahriman Ghazali has discovered according to

WASHINGTON: Around 32,000 lives could be saved each year if people over 50 got regular colorectal cancer screening as recommended, the US Centers for Disease Control said Tuesday.The disease is the second leading cause of deaths in the United States after lung cancer, but millions of

DIYARBAKIR: Kurdish rebels killed three Turkish soldiers and 10 of their own militants died in an attack on a military outpost in southeastern Turkey, officials said Tuesday.The attack was the latest in a surge of violence by Kurdish rebels, prompting Turkey`s army chief to highlight the

BANGKOK:  Thailand on Tuesday extended by three months a state of emergency across about one quarter of the country, including Bangkok, due to lingering fears of unrest following deadly protests.The move comes despite warnings from human rights campaigners that the authorities` use of

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Tuesday shrugged off a European Union decision to withdraw tariff concessions over the island`s failure to guarantee an improvement in its human rights record.Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said Colombo had already arranged relief to export businesses that would

KABUL: Afghanistan`s national security adviser has called on the Pakistani government to "take serious measures" against Islamist groups launching attacks on Afghan targets from secure havens inside Pakistan.Rangin Dadfar Spanta said Afghanistan had "tremendous evidence" that Pakistani

MOGADISHU: At least 16 people were killed in fighting between rival factions in Mogadishu as chaos engulfed the Somali capital and spurred the war-torn country`s neighbours into action, officials said Tuesday.Most of the latest victims were combatants killed in several incidents on