DHAKA: An armed student entered a Moscow school on Monday and took more than 20 teenagers hostage, in an incident that also claimed the lives of a policeman and a teacher.Russia security officials said, reports The Straits Times.The hostage-taker was one of the students of school number

DHAKA: Syrian government forces have bombarded Aleppo with barrel bombs and air raids for a second day, with scores of people killed in 48 hours, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. At least 36 people were killed in Sunday`s attacks alone on Syria`s second city, the

DHAKA: A cinema in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar has been struck by two blasts, killing at least five people and injuring at least 20 others. The explosions took place on Sunday in the Picture House, as it is known locally, in Qissa Khawani Bazaar. Faisal Mukhtar, a senior

DHAKA: A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off western Greece early on Monday. The United States Geological Survey said, reports The Straits Times. The quake, which was initially reported as 6.4 in magnitude, struck 122km west of Patras at a relatively shallow depth of 13.7km at

DHAKA: At least ninety people were killed in a day of punishing air assaults on Aleppo as so-called barrel bombs rained down on the city, an opposition group said.Women and children were among the victims in Saturday`s raids in various neighborhoods in the rebel stronghold, the UK-based

DHAKA: The campaign for Afghanistan’s presidential election has been formally launched, with rallies for key candidates in the capital, Kabul.The election is scheduled to take place on 5 April.There are 11 candidates to replace Hamid Karzai, who cannot stand again.Security is the major

DHAKA: India’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) founder member Madhu Bhaduri has accused the rookie party of shielding controversial law minister Somnath Bharti in the south Delhi raid episode.Bhaduri’s allegations, which come close on the heels of party legislator Vinod Kumar Binny being

DHAKA: Australia said it had made ‘substantial’ progress on Unesco benchmarks for protection of the Great Barrier Reef on Sunday in a report aimed at staving off a world heritage downgrade.Australia environment minister Greg Hunt said a progress report delivered to the world heritage

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry met Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Sunday amid ongoing efforts to resolve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme.‘Secretary Kerry and foreign minister Zarif met on the margins of the Munich Security Conference this morning,’

DHAKA: Polls across Thailand closed peacefully despite a boycott by the country’s main opposition party, but voting disruptions in some districts including in Bangkok means there will be no results for at least three weeks.Voting was normal in the north and north-east, but in some parts

  DHAKA: Five people were injured on Sunday when motorcycle-riding men hurled a grenade into a church in the troubled southern Philippines in a city known for Muslim rebel activity, officials said. One of two men on the motorcycle threw the grenade into the Roman Catholic church in a

  DHAKA: Tourists travelling to India from up to 180 countries will no longer have to queue up at their local consulates to obtain visas under reforms expected to be approved this week. Local media reported on Sunday, says The Straits Times. Most foreigners currently have to wait

DHAKA: An Indonesian volcano that has been rumbling for months has witnessed a major eruption, killing at least 16 people, officials say. Among the dead on Mount Sinabung were a local television journalist and four high-school students and their teacher who were visiting the mountain to

DHAKA: Ukraine`s Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara and opposition leader Vitali Klitschko have clashed face to face at a security summit in Munich. The two men appeared in a discussion, during which Klitschko showed Kozhara images of injuries he said were inflicted by the police on

DHAKA: Voters are going to the polls under heavy security in an election that could push Thailand deeper into political turmoil and leave the winner paralysed for months by street protests. The risk of bloodshed at the ballot on Sunday remains high, a day after seven people were wounded

DHAKA: Six more cases of human infection with H7N9 bird flu have been reported in China, according to the World Health Organization. One of them was fatal, it said Friday in a news release.WHO cited reports it received Wednesday from the National Health and Family Planning Commission

DHAKA: Eleven people, including four schoolchildren, were killed Saturday after they were engulfed by scorching ash clouds spat out by Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung in its biggest eruption in recent days, officials said.Eight people were found dead in Sukameriah village, near Mount

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama plans to travel to Saudi Arabia in March on a mission to smooth tensions with Washington’s main Arab ally over US policy on Iran’s nuclear program and the civil war in Syria.A newspaper reported, The Jerusalem Post publishes this report on

DHAKA: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov rounded on the European Union Saturday, accusing its leaders of interfering in Ukraine’s internal affairs and helping stoke violent anti-government protests.‘Why are many prominent EU politicians actually encouraging such actions although

DHAKA: The woman who calls herself the wife of fiery hardline Indian prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said in a rare interview Saturday that she doesn’t ‘feel bad’ he has cut her out of his life.Modi, a 63-year-old opposition Hindu nationalist politician, has never