DHAKA: Yoshinori Ohsumi wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. This year’s Nobel Laureate discovered and elucidated mechanisms underlying autophagy, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components, said a Nobel Prize press

DHAKA: White House candidate Donald Trump’s allies have said he is a “genius” if a report is true that he paid no federal income taxes for 18 years. The New York Times said it had received some of Trump’s 1995 tax documents revealing $915m losses that allowed him to legally

DHAKA: One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent years has been moving across the Caribbean towards Jamaica, Haiti and eastern Cuba. Parts of Jamaica have already been lashed by rain and strong winds, with flood waters blocking roads in the capital, Kingston. A

A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel was killed and another injured as terrorists on Sunday night attacked adjoining army and BSF camps in Baramulla in north Kashmir, about 50 km from capital Srinagar. India's army said that the firing had stopped and the situation was

Voters in Colombia have rejected a landmark peace deal with FARC rebels in a shock referendum result, with 50.24 percent voting against it. The deal was signed last week by President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC leader Timoleon Jimenez after nearly four years of negotiations. But it

DHAKA: More than 70 people have been injured, four seriously, in an explosion caused by a suspected gas leak near the southern Spanish city of Malaga. The blast happened in a cafe in the town of Velez-Malaga at about 17:00 GMT during a local festival, the BBC reports. Local

DHAKA: At least 50 people were killed and scores injured in stampede at a festival in Ethiopia's Oromia region after security forces fired tear gas and shots to disperse a protest. “As a result of the chaos, lives were lost and several of the injured were taken to hospital,”

DHAKA: Russian and Syrian air raids on the rebel-held eastern half of the city of Aleppo have forced the closure of the largest hospital in the area and killed two people, a medical charity says. The Syrian American Medical Society, which supports the hospital, said it had been struck

Hungary is set to vote in a referendum on whether to accept mandatory EU quotas for relocating migrants. Right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban opposes plans to relocate a total of 160,000 migrants across the bloc, reports the BBC. Under the scheme, announced after last year’s

DHAKA: Hurricane Matthew has weakened slightly as it moves towards Jamaica, but is still packing winds of up to 250km/h, strong enough to wreck houses, forecasters say. It is now a category four storm, the US National Hurricane Center says, after earlier reaching the top category five

DHAKA: The United States and South Korea are destined to ‘pay the price’ for their decision to deploy an advanced missile defense system+ which will inevitably prompt a ‘counter attack’+. China’s top newspaper said on Saturday, reports The Times of India. Tension on the

Thirteen people have been confirmed dead in two landslides after a major typhoon lashed southeastern China, with the prospect of the toll rising further as rescue crews continued Saturday to search for 20 missing people. The landslides in Zhejiang province on Wednesday, south of the

DHAKA: Pakistan on Friday officially announced the postponement of a three-day SAARC summit at Islamabad in November owing to India’s decision to abstain from the regional event. “Pakistan remains committed to hosting the 19th SAARC Summit at Islamabad at the earliest so that the

DHAKA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has appeared to compare himself with Adolf Hitler, saying he would be “happy to slaughter” millions of drug addicts just like Nazi Germany killed three million Jews. “Hitler massacred three million Jews… there’s three million drug

Dozens of world leaders are gathering in Israel to pay tributes to Shimon Peres, one of the country's founding fathers, who died on Wednesday aged 93. Peres' state funeral will be held in Jerusalem later on Friday, reports the BBC. A massive security operation in preparation

India’s army says it has carried out “surgical strikes” against suspected militants along the de-facto border with Pakistan in Kashmir. The operation was aimed at preventing attacks being planned by Pakistan-based militants, a senior army official said, reports the BBC. He

DHAKA: A commuter train has crashed into a rail station in New Jersey of US. Emergency crews are arriving on the scene in Hoboken on Thursday morning (September 29). Photos from the scene show a damaged New Jersey Transit rail car inside the station, surrounded by debris. There

DHAKA: It will be “impossible” for Brexit talks to result in a deal that gives Britons more rights than others outside the EU. Italy’s PM Matteo Renzi told the BBC. Matteo Renzi warned that leaving the EU would be a “very difficult process” - but the problems could be

DHAKA: Thousands of people are expected to pay their final respects to former Israeli Prime Minister and President Shimon Peres, who died at the age of 93. His coffin will lie in state in front of the parliament building in Jerusalem throughout Thursday (September 29). US President

DHAKA: President Obama has said Congress made a ‘mistake’ by overriding his veto and pushing through a bill that allows legal action against Saudi Arabia over the 9/11 attacks. He said the bill would set a “dangerous precedent” for individuals around the world to sue the US