DHAKA: North Korea says it is facing the worst drought in a century, sparking fears of worsening food shortages.State news agency KCNA said main rice-growing provinces had been badly affected and more than 30% of rice paddies were "parching up", reports bbc.com.Hundreds of thousands of

DHAKA: Reclusive North Korea said on Tuesday it has been hit by the worst drought in a century, compounding chronic food shortages in a country where the United Nations says almost one third of children under five are stunted due to malnourishment.The North’s KCNA news agency said

DHAKA: At least 43 people have been killed and 190 others injured by opposition rocket fire in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Up to 300 rockets were fired by rebel fighters on government controlled neighborhoods in Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for

DHAKA: An Egyptian court sentenced former Islamist president Mohamed Mursi to death on Tuesday in a case related to a 2011 mass jail break.The court had sought the death penalty for Mursi in May and referred its recommendation to Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam, the country’s most senior

DHAKA: Al-Qaeda has confirmed that Nasser al-Wuhayshi, the leader of its offshoot in the Arabian Peninsula, has been killed in a US drone strike in Yemen.His death was announced by the AQAP group in an online video. His successor was named as military chief Qasim al-Raymi, reports the

DHAKA: President Vladimir Putin said Russia will add more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal in 2015.Speaking at an arms fair, Putin said the weapons would be able to overcome even the most technically advanced anti-missile defense systems.It comes after

DHAKA: The world’s tallest peak, Mount Everest, moved three centimeters to the south-west because of the Nepal earthquake that devastated the country in April.Chinese state media reported on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.The 7.8-magnitude quake reversed the gradual north-easterly

DHAKA: Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s plane left South Africa on Monday, local media said, despite a court ordering him to stay as it decides whether to order his arrest over alleged war crimes and genocide.His reported departure was confirmed by the state minister for information

DHAKA: Another patient has died in South Korea amid an outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), bringing total fatalities to 16.Officials also reported five new cases in South Korea, which has the largest outbreak outside the Middle East.Officials said 150 people have now

DHAKA: Nepal is set to reopen all the heritage sites in the Kathmandu valley to the public, in a bid to attract tourists after April’s devastating earthquake.Among those sites set to open are the historic Durbar squares or ‘noble courts’, which were badly damaged.UNESCO raised some

DHAKA: The bodies of 18 migrants who likely died of dehydration have been found in the Sahara desert in northern Niger.The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said this, reports the Times of India on Monday.The migrants, most of whom came from West African countries, are

DHAKA: A top Islamist militant who ordered a deadly attack on an Algerian gas plant two years ago has been killed in a US air strike.Mokhtar Belmokhtar and other fighters were killed in the operation in the eastern city of Ajdabiya, a statement from Libya’s government said.However,

DHAKA: A South African court has issued an interim order stopping Sudan’s leader Omar al-Bashir, who faces war crimes charges, from leaving the country.The Pretoria High Court says Bashir must stay until it rules on Monday on whether he should be handed over to the International

DHAKA: Chinese defense ministry has confirmed the test of a supersonic nuclear delivery vehicle, a move described by the US as an ‘extreme manoeuvre’ amid tension in the South China Sea.The fourth successful test of hypersonic glide vehicle - which the US has dubbed the ‘Wu-14’ -

DHAKA: North Korea on Sunday test-fired three short-range missiles into the sea, South Korea’s defense ministry said, weeks after claiming a successful submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test.The North fired three KN-01 missiles from a site near its eastern city of Wonsan, a

DHAKA: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has killed 13 Iraqi soldiers in a triple suicide car bombing at an army base south of Fallujah.Those killed in Sunday’s attack in the village of Al Hayakil included the commander of the second army regiment of the first army

DHAKA: External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday admitted to helping controversial IPL founder and enforcement directorate offender Lalit Modi with his travel documents, but made it clear that she did so only on humanitarian grounds.Responding to a Times Now expose that showed

DHAKA: South Korea reported Sunday seven new cases of the Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) virus in an outbreak that has killed 15 people, as one citizen was hospitalized in Slovakia after being suspected of carrying the disease there and a hard-hit Seoul hospital suspended

DHAKA: A South African man who received the world's first successful penis transplant is to become a father just months after undergoing surgery.His doctor said Friday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Saturday.Urologist Andre van der Merwe, who led the team that performed the

DHAKA: UK intelligence agents have been moved because Russia and China have access to classified information which reveals how they operate.Moscow and Beijing have deciphered documents stolen by whistleblower Edward Snowden.BBC reports on Sunday quoting a senior UK government source.The