DHAKA: The US commander of international forces in Afghanistan has said an air strike on a hospital in the northern city of Kunduz was a mistake.Gen John Campbell said that the US would never intentionally target a protected medical facility, BBC reported.At least 22 people were killed in

DHAKA: Attacks on several targets in Aden have killed 15 soldiers from the Arab coalition and its allies in Yemen.The official WAM news agency of the United Arab Emirates said, according to Al Jazeera.Explosions hit a hotel housing Yemeni officials and a Gulf military base in Aden, a

DHAKA: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015 to Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur B. McDonald of Canada on Tuesday.The prize was bestowed to Takaaki Kajita, Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan and

DHAKA: A hotel in Yemen’s second city of Aden which Khaled Bahah, the prime minister and vice president, and members of the government are using as a base has been hit by several blasts.Government officials said Bahah was not hurt in Tuesday morning’s attack, but there were other

DHAKA: Moscow is prepared to set up contacts with anti-Assad military group Free Syrian Army (FSA) and have asked the United States for information on them.But so far Moscow has not received a response, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday, reports sputniknews.com.‘In any

DHAKA: Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that helped doctors fight malaria and infections caused by roundworm parasites.The Nobel judges in Stockholm awarded the prestigious prize to Irish-born William Campbell (Prize

DHAKA: The risk of a ‘serious cyber attack’ on nuclear power plants around the world is growing.Warns a report, says the BBC.The civil nuclear infrastructure in most nations is not well prepared to defend against such attacks, it added.Many of the control systems for the

DHAKA: A teenager has been killed and more than 200 Palestinians injured as clashes with Israeli forces and settlers continued in the occupied West Bank.The violence followed Israel’s decision to bar Palestinians from accessing Jerusalem’s Old City unless they were residents, a move

DHAKA: Islamic State (IS) militants in northern Syria have blown up another monument in the ancient city of Palmyra.Officials and local sources say, reports the BBC.The Arch of Triumph was ‘pulverised’ by the militants who control the city, a Palmyra activist told the media.It is

DHAKA: At least 131 people were killed in mudslides that smashed into a village outside Guatemala City, officials say three days after the disaster struck the Central American nation.'Unfortunately, a new count shows that there are 131 confirmed dead and recovered,' and still about 300

DHAKA: Violent storms and flooding have hit south-eastern France, killing at least 17 people with four more missing, officials say.Three elderly people drowned when their retirement home near the city of Antibes was flooded.Others died trapped in their cars in tunnels and underground car

DHAKA: Two Israelis have been killed and two others injured in a knife attack by a Palestinian in Jerusalem.Police say, reports the BBC.The victims are said to be from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family who were walking to the Western Wall. The attacker was shot dead by police.In a separate

DHAKA: Two suicide bombers, one of them driving an explosives-laden vehicle, have blown themselves up in northwestern Baghdad, killing at least 24 people, police said.The attacks, which took place at around 14:30 GMT Saturday, targeted the mainly Shia districts of Kadhimiya and Hurriya in

DHAKA: Air strikes on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz that killed 19 people were "tragic, inexcusable and possibly even criminal", the UN human rights chief says.High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein urged a full and transparent investigation into the attack.Medical charity

DHAKA: The Guatemalan authorities say the number of people killed when a hillside collapsed on houses in the village of El Cambray, 15km (nine miles) outside the capital, has risen to 73.They said another 350 people were still believed to be missing under tonnes of rock and earth that

DHAKA: The first bodies of Iranian pilgrims killed in a stampede during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca have arrived back in the capital Tehran.The ceremony saw 104 bodies returned home from Saudi Arabia. Iran says at least 464 of its nationals were killed, reports the BBC.The Saudi

DHAKA: Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says three of its staff were killed in an overnight bombing of a hospital in the embattled Afghan city of Kunduz.NATO said a US air strike ‘may have’ hit the hospital, which is run by the medical charity, adding that the attack may have resulted in

DHAKA: Two bomb blasts have rocked the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja causing a number of deaths.Officials say, reports the BBC.The first struck near a police station in Kuje, 25 miles (40km) from Abuja, the second hit a bus stop in Nyanya.No group has said it carried out the

DHAKA: At least 30 people have died and about 600 are missing after a hillside collapsed on a town on the edge of Guatemala City, burying homes in earth and sludge and sparking a desperate hunt for survivors.Loosened by heavy rains, tonnes of dirt and trees tumbled onto Santa Catarina

DHAKA: Australian police say they believe a 15-year-old who killed a police worker in Sydney had links to terrorism.The teenage boy was killed by New South Wales police on Friday after he gunned down the worker at close range outside the state police headquarters.Police say the boy, who