DHAKA: Military leaders failed to calculate the magnitude of the conflict in Afghanistan, the former head of the British army has told the BBC.Gen Sir Peter Wall said they thought they had a ‘reasonable force’ for their limited objectives, but he now admits they got it wrong.The

DHAKA: A man has jumped the White House fence and was attacked by Secret Service dogs, a Secret Service spokesman said, in the second incident to happen in a few weeks.Video released on Wednesday showed Secret Service agents surrounding the man on the north lawn of the White House,

DHAKA: Pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong have marched to the residence of the territory's leader, criticising his stance on democratic reform.The protesters were also angered by CY Leung's recent comments, where he argued that poorer residents should not be given too much

DHAKA: A US federal jury has found four Blackwater security guards guilty of killing 14 Iraqis in a square in Baghdad in 2007.One former guard was found guilty of murder with three others guilty of voluntary manslaughter.A further 17 Iraqis were injured as the private contractors opened

DHAKA: Mexico's government has ordered the arrest of the mayor of the southern town of Iguala, where six people died and 43 students disappeared after clashing with local police last month.Mexico's chief prosecutor said Mayor Jose Luis Abarca ordered the police operation, to stop the

DHAKA: A gunman shot and killed a soldier at a war memorial in Ottawa, before police engaged in a gun battle inside the parliament building.Police confirmed a gunman was shot dead, but Canada's capital remained on alert through much of the day, reports BBC.PM Stephen Harper said the

DHAKA: Multiple shots have been fired at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, just steps from the nation's parliament. Witnesses reported seeing a man running toward the government buildings, which have been placed on lockdown. A soldier has been wounded in the attack, Canadian media

DHAKA: An anti-government cleric who has been campaigning in Islamabad, calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has ended his 65-day-long protest. Tahir ul-Qadri - who leads both the Pakistan Awami Tehreek party and the Minhaj-ul-Quran international network of

DHAKA: A British couple was found dead in their hotel room in Agra. Police have been suspecting that they died from drug overdose. The bodies of a 29-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman were found on Tuesday morning in the Maya Hotel close to the Taj Mahal, a senior police officer said

DHAKA: New US rules requiring air passengers from the three West African countries worst hit by Ebola to travel via one of five airports are coming into effect. Travellers from Sierra Leone, Liberia or Guinea must now arrive at O'Hare in Chicago, JFK, Newark, Washington's Dulles or

DHAKA: The US defence department has said it is examining an Islamic State video appearing to show militants in control of US weapons intended for Syrian Kurdish fighters. Some 27 bundles containing small arms, ammunition and other weaponry were dropped on Monday for militias defending

DHAKA: Ben Bradlee, the zestful, charismatic Washington Post editor who guided the paper through the era of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate and was immortalized on screen in "All the President's Men," has died. He was 93.Bradlee began end-of-life care at his home last month after

DHAKA: Jeffrey Fowle, one of three US citizens detained in North Korea, has been released.State department spokeswoman Marie Harf confirmed that Fowle was on his way home on Tuesday following negotiations, reports BBC.She said the US was working to secure the release of two other US

DHAKA: Fighting continues in Yemen between the Houthi rebels and al-Qaeda-backed Sunni tribesmen, leaving at least 68 Houthi fighters dead in the province of Bayda. The news came as protesters in Yemen's capital called on the Houthi fighters to leave after a deadline to form a new

DHAKA: India warned Pakistan on Tuesday of more "pain" if it continued to violate a ceasefire on their disputed border in Kashmir and said it was up to Islamabad to create the conditions for a resumption of peace talks.The two sides exchanged mortars and intense gunfire this month,

DHAKA: Britain said on Tuesday it was authorizing spy planes and armed drones to fly surveillance missions over Syria "very shortly" in order to gather intelligence on Islamic State (IS) militants.Britain announced the deployment after Turkey said on Monday it would allow Iraqi

DHAKA: The chief executive of French oil major Total, Christophe de Margerie, was killed in an airplane collision with a snowplow at Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport, airport spokeswoman Elena Krylova said on Tuesday."Tonight, a plane crashed when it collided with a

DHAKA: Oscar Pistorius was sentenced in South Africa on Tuesday to five years in prison for the 2013 shooting death of his then-girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp.He was also given a 3-year suspended sentence for a firearms conviction, reports the Huffington Post.Last month, Judge

DHAKA: South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is set to discover whether he faces a prison term for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.  Judge Thokozile Masipa has heard the prosecution call for a minimum 10-year sentence, against a defence argument for community service and

DHAKA: Heath Streak can relate his situation to Frank Lampard playing for Manchester City against Chelsea, where the English footballer played for 13 seasons.  In Streak's case the connection is deeper. He is a living legend in Zimbabwe who is now plotting against them as Bangladesh's