DHAKA: US First Lady Michelle Obama stepped out for her second full-day in Beijing stressing the importance of education, in particularly studying abroad, as well as encouraging young adults to embrace freedom of speech, which she said is a ‘birthright’.She also noted the stake the US

DHAKA: China is investigating new satellite images of debris in the southern Indian Ocean, potentially from missing flight MH370.Malaysian officials say, reports the BBC.Malaysia’s acting transport minister read out the news as he was handed it during at his daily briefing, saying one

DHAKA: Thousands of Algerian opposition supporters have called for a boycott of next month’s presidential election, during an unprecedented mass rally.Islamist and secular opposition parties at the rally denounced 77-year-old president Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s attempt to win a fourth

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin has ‘lost Ukraine for good’ with his move to annex Crimea, former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko said in her first live television appearance since returning to the country.Tymoshenko, who spent three years in jail on what she said were

DHAKA: Pope Francis has launched a stinging attack on the mafia, warning gangsters that they will go to hell unless they repent and stop doing evil.‘Blood-stained money, blood-stained power, you can’t bring it with you to your next life. Repent,’ he said, reports the BBC.He was

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a law formalising Russia’s takeover of Crimea from Ukraine, despite fresh sanctions from the EU and the US.The European Union’s latest measures target 12 people involved in Russia’s annexation of the peninsula.Earlier, Ukraine and

DHAKA: Two weeks. Two gut-wrenching, frustrating, mysterious weeks.That`s how long it`s been since 227 passengers and 12 crew members boarded Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, destined for Beijing. A routine trip, it seemed, to catch up relatives in time for the weekend, start on a work

DHAKA: Thousands of people celebrated in the Crimean capital of Simferopol after the region broke away from Ukraine and was formally accepted into the Russian Federation.Celebrations continued into early Saturday, hours after the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, signed a treaty making

DHAKA: Thailand`s Constitutional Court has declared as invalid the parliamentary elections held last February, throwing the country into a deeper political impasse.The court said on Friday that the vote did not take place on the same day across the country and that violated a clause in

DHAKA: After hours of chewing over how to deal with Russia`s annexation of Crimea, EU heads have added a further 12 individuals to their blacklist.The list of those to be targeted by sanctions is to be released on day two of their Brussels summit. Its first incarnation included figures

DHAKA: Eight people were killed when gunmen broke into a hotel in the Afghan capital Kabul and attacked diners, says a government minister.Two children and two foreign nationals were among the dead, with four other people wounded, said Deputy Interior Minister General Mohammad Ayub

DHAKA: Turkey has restricted access to Twitter hours after the prime minister, Tayyip Erdogan, threatened to shut down the social media platform after users published claims of corruption against him.Users reported on Friday that they were forwarded from twitter.com to a statement from

DHAKA: Search planes are on their way to the site of possible debris from the missing Malaysia Airline flight thousands of kilometres south-west of Perth.Authorities yesterday identified two objects on satellite images almost 2,500 kilometres off the coast of Western Australia, but bad

DHAKA: Late night bombings at a Baghdad cafe left 13 people dead, officials said Thursday, pushing the toll from a day of nationwide blasts, shootings and shellings to at least 46.The violence has been primarily driven by discontent in the Sunni community, which alleges mistreatment at

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama has announced further sanctions on Russian officials and a bank over the crisis in Crimea.Obama said the US was watching with concern the situation in southern and eastern Ukraine, and he had signed an executive order enabling the US to impose economic

DHAKA: US First Lady Michelle Obama is in China for a week-long visit that includes stops in Beijing and Chengdu.Michelle is accompanied by her mother and two daughters, Malia and Sasha. Chinese First Lady Peng Liyuan will accompany her on part of her trip.In a blog, she said she would

DHAKA: Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday he hopes to resume formal talks with North Korea as soon as possible.Abe also said that talks between officials from the Japanese and North Korean affiliates of the Red Cross this month on the return of the remains of Japanese

DHAKA: Almost half of Syria’s declared stockpile of chemical weapons has now been removed, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says.Two additional consignments of the most dangerous chemicals were loaded on to cargo vessels at Latakia over the past week, according

DHAKA: Ukraine announced plans to drop out of a key post-Soviet alliance and slap entry visas on Russians while also preparing for a possible Crimean withdrawal following the Kremlin’s absorption of the peninsula.Kiev’s first firm response to Russia’s claim to the strategic Black

DHAKA: Australia expects to make a quick deliberation on whether possible debris seen at sea is indeed from flight MH370, a report said on Thursday, but a first spotter flight failed to locate anything in bad weather.Authorities should know something definite on the possible discovery of