DHAKA: Thailand’s coup leader is expected to be picked as prime minister by the kingdom’s new army-dominated national assembly, junta sources said on Wednesday, cementing the military’s hold on power in the politically turbulent nation. Army Chief Prayuth Chan-ocha is likely to be

DHAKA: A Japanese man born months before the Wright brothers carried out the first human flight was recognised on Wednesday as the world's oldest male at the age of 111.Sakari Momoi, a former high school principal who was born on February 5, 1903, received a certificate from Guinness

DHAKA: A huge landslide that engulfed homes in western Japan killed at least 27 people and left another 10 missing.The government said on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.Dozens of houses were buried when a wall of mud thundered down a hillside in Hiroshima overnight, television

DHAKA: Liberia has imposed a night-time curfew and has quarantined an area of the capital Monrovia in a bid to halt the deadly Ebola outbreak.President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said the curfew would be from 21:00 local time to 06:00 (21:00-06:00 GMT).She said all movement would be blocked

DHAKA: An Israeli air strike killed the wife and child of Gaza military chief. Hamas made the allegation after a temporary ceasefire went up in smoke and Cairo truce talks froze on the day same, reports the DAWN. “The wife of the great leader was martyred with his daughter,” in a

DHAKA: At least 18 people have been killed and 13 went missing over a huge landslide engulfed homes in western Japan on Wednesday. Dozens of houses were buried when a wall of mud thundered down a hillside in Hiroshima overnight, television pictures showed, with national broadcaster NHK,

DHAKA: The Islamic State militant group has released a video online purporting to show the beheading of US journalist James Foley, missing since 2012.The militants said the killing was revenge for US air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq.Foley's mother Diane said on

DHAKA: A week-long truce in Gaza has collapsed in tatters with both sides blaming each other after Palestinian fighters launched rockets into Israel and Israel attacked "terror sites" inside the enclave.The Israeli military launched attacks on at least 10 sites in Gaza on Tuesday,

DHAKA: An Indonesian couple reunited with their daughter 10 years after a tsunami snatched her from their arms claimed Tuesday to have found their son, who was also swept away in the disaster. Jamaliah and her husband Septi Rangkuti had an emotional reunion Monday with the teenager they

DHAKA: Pope Francis was deeply grieved, the Vatican's official broadcasting service said on Tuesday, after the deaths of three relatives killed when their car slammed into the back of a truck on a highway in central Argentina.A nephew of the Pope, Emanuel Bergoglio, who was driving

DHAKA: Three relatives of Pope Francis, two great nephews and their mother, have been killed in a traffic accident in Argentina.The police said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.The dead include a baby of eight months and a two-year-old toddler, police commissioner Carina Ferreyra

DHAKA: Israel on Tuesday ordered the military to respond after three rockets from Gaza struck the south as the two sides were observing a 24-hour truce.An Israeli official said, reports The Straits Times.Speaking to media, the official said prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘ordered

DHAKA: An erupting volcanic island that is expanding off Japan could trigger a tsunami if its freshly-formed lava slopes collapse into the sea.Scientists said on Tuesday, reports guldnews.com.The small, but growing, island appeared last year and quickly engulfed the already-existing

DHAKA: India’s separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Tuesday met Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit in Delhi.Angered by the meeting, people protested outside the Pakistan high commission in New Delhi with some protesters being detained, according to reports, says The Times

DHAKA: A Chinese aircraft was forced to delay its landing after two air traffic controllers nodded off, reports said on Tuesday, sparking a wave of online anger about airline safety.The Boeing 737 was preparing to land at Wuhan airport in central China but had no response from the

DHAKA: China has reprimanded 15 Xinjiang officials for violations that include adhering to religious faith, state media said on Tuesday, amid a crackdown on what the government calls illegal religious activities in the unruly western region.One official in the southern city of

DHAKA: Taking a step further towards scrapping the Planning Commission, prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday invited ideas from the people on the new institution to replace the plan body.The government also announced creation of a special open forum on the website mygov.nic.in for

DHAKA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) top leadership on Tuesday refused to meet and hold talks with government negotiators, saying that it was too late to negotiate now.Credible government sources told Dawn that after the PTI leadership’s refusal to talk to government

DHAKA: Central banks purchased 118 tones in net gold in Q2 2014, representing a 28% year-over-year increase, according to the World Gold Council. In May 2014, the European Central Bank and other European central banks signed the fourth Central Bank Gold Agreement (CBGA). The agreement

DHAKA: Pakistan Army has put its troops in Islamabad on ‘high alert’ in case of any untoward incident takes place as Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf enters red zone are after the expiry of their deadline. The troops were deployed in the federal capital under Article 245 of the Constitution,