DHAKA: Two Canadian fishermen have been celebrating catching bright blue lobsters over the last few days. But how exceptional these striking-looking crustaceans are, asks Justin Parkinson. Lobsters caught off the Atlantic coast of North America aren’t usually very bright. They

DHAKA: A US-backed association of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters has begun a campaign to oust Islamic State (IS) militants from land north of Raqqa. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is believed to have planned about 30,000 fighters. US-led coalition warplanes will support the

DHAKA: The Afghan Taliban has pronounced a new leader to swap Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was killed in a US drone strike. The Taliban acknowledged that, Mansour's death for the first time and named his successor as Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada, BBC reports on Wednesday (May 25).

DHAKA: Eurozone finance ministers have agreed a ‘major breakthrough’ that is to extend further bailout loans to Greece as well as debt relief. After late-night talks in Brussels, the ministers agreed to unlock 10.3bn Euros in new loans. The move came two days after the Greek

DHAKA: An EgyptAir flight that crashed in the Mediterranean did not swerve and change direction before disappearing, an Egyptian official says. The Airbus A320 was en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard when it vanished from radar early on Thursday. Greece’s defence

DHAKA: The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, has been granted refugee status in the UK, according to his lawyer. Nasheed, the opposition leader, was controversially jailed for 13 years under anti-terror laws last year. He was allowed to travel to the UK to receive

DHAKA: Planning Minister Romero Juca, a close ally of Brazilian acting President Michel Temer, is stepping aside in a new political scandal. The minister was caught on tape allegedly conspiring to obstruct the country’s biggest-ever corruption investigation, reports the BBC on

DHAKA: Above 100 people have been killed in multiple attacks claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in strongholds of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Concurrently car bombs and suicide bombers in bus stations, hospitals and elsewhere in the coastal cities of

DHAKA: President Barack Obama has declared that the US is fully elating its ban on sales of lethal weapons to Vietnam, its one-time enemy. He announced this during a visit to communist Vietnam and talks with its leaders, Obama said that the move removed a ‘lingering vestige of the

DHAKA:  At least 45 people were killed after a car bomb hit a crowd of young men lining up to join the Yemeni army in the city of Aden, on Monday (May 23). The official was not immediately able to give a specific casualty toll from the bombing outside the Badr base in the Khormaksar

DHAKA: At least 17 schoolgirls were killed as a boarding house caught fire in northern Thailand on Sunday (May 22) midnight.   Five others were injured and two girls remain missing, police said on Monday. According to a local newspaper, the fire broke out at the boarding-house of

DHAKA: Seven people have been killed after a volcano in western Indonesia erupted, blasting clouds of volcanic ash 3-km into the sky. The victims were farming in an area that was declared unsafe because of its close proximity to Mount Sinabung, reports the BBC. The volcano was still

DHAKA: Turkey’s ruling AK Party is set to appoint a key ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as its leader and new prime minister, after a reported rift led Ahmet Davutoglu to quit. Binali Yildirim, the outgoing transport minister, is the sole candidate at a party congress in

DHAKA: The Afghan Taliban has denied reports that its leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a US air strike in Pakistan. Earlier on Saturday, US officials briefed the media that a drone attack authorized by President Barack Obama had likely killed him and another Taliban member.

DHAKA: The people of mainly Muslim Tajikistan are voting on a ban on religion-based parties, in a poll likely to strengthen the president's power. Emomali Rakhmon has ruled the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic since 1992, surviving a civil war which ended in a deal with the

DHAKA: A recording released online, supposedly from Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, has called for further attacks against the West. The recording urges followers to carry out attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which will begin in

DHAKA: Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has possibly been killed in a US air strike. He and another male fighter were targeted as they rode in a vehicle in an isolated area of Pakistan close to the Afghan border, BBC reports on Sunday (May 22). The Pentagon has confirmed it

DHAKA: US lawmakers on approved amendments to a defense bill that seeks to bring India on a par with NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) allies for sale of defense equipment and technology transfer, even as they voted to increase restrictions on military assistance for Pakistan ,

DHAKA: The Green Zone is a heavily equipped area of Baghdad Calm has been restored in Baghdad; hours after security forces opened fire to stop protesters attack the Green Zone and injured dozens. Tear gas and live bullets were fired to drive back the mainly Shia Muslim crowds, as they

DHAKA: There were smoke alerts inside the cabin of the EgyptAir passenger plane before it crashed in the Mediterranean on Thursday (May 19). Smoke was detected in the toilet and the aircraft’s electrics, just minutes before the signal was lost, according to data published on air