DHAKA: Nelson Mandela is lying in state in Pretoria dressed in one of his trademark colourful batik shirts from Indonesia.Through a glass casing, visitors can see the brown-and-yellow shirt and Mandela’s face.His lower body is covered, reports ann7.com.Four guards with heads bowed are

DHAKA: South Africa’s deaf community on Wednesday accused the sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial of being a fake, who had merely flapped his arms around during speeches.‘He’s a complete fraud,’ Cara Loening, director of Sign Language Education and Development

DHAKA: Time magazine on Wednesday named Pope Francis its person of the year, saying that in nine months in office the head of the Catholic Church had become a new voice of conscience.‘For pulling the papacy out of the palace and into the streets, for committing the world’s largest

DHAKA: The trial of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood chief and his deputies on charges related to protest deaths came to an abrupt end Wednesday when the judges walked out, citing chaos in the dock.The previous session on October 29 of the trial against Mohamed Badie and 34 co-defendants had

DHAKA: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by four to five unidentified men and dumped at a parking lot in Connaught Place in the heart of the national capital.Police said on Wednesday, reports Hindustan Times.Even as there have been discrepancies in the girl’s statement about

DHAKA: Six Gulf Arab nations wrapped up a summit meeting in Kuwait by agreeing to establish a joint military command, paving the way for tighter security coordination as their regional rival Iran pursues outreach efforts.The official Kuwait News Agency said Wednesday that the military

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry appealed to sceptical US lawmakers on Tuesday not to impose new sanctions on Tehran while the United States seeks to negotiate a comprehensive agreement with Iran to curb its nuclear programme.Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives

DHAKA: The Western countries are beginning to realise the importance of Iran’s participation in the international conference on Syria, known as Geneva-2.Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said, the Voice of Russia reports.‘In my contacts with my Western counterparts and those from

DHAKA: Nearly 230 million children under the age of five around the world have never had their birth registered, which often means they will be barred from education, health care and social security.The UN children’s agency said, reports The Straits Times.A report by UNICEF to mark its

DHAKA: Iran was offered a Gulf initiative seeking to mend ties with GCC and other Arab countries and open a new chapter of cooperation and good neighbourly relations.A regional Gulf security conference heard on Wednesday, gulfnews.com reports.Dr Ebtisam Al Katbi, Chairperson of the

DHAKA: Activist Anna Hazare’s indefinite hunger strike to press for the passage of Jan Lokpal Bill entered the second day on Wednesday.76-year-old Hazare continues his fast at his village here braving the cold weather in Maharashtra`s Ahmednagar district.The anti-graft crusader is on

DHAKA: The United States has suspended all non-lethal assistance into northern Syria after Islamic Front forces seized headquarters and warehouses belonging to the opposition’s Supreme Military Council (SMC).A US Embassy spokesman said in Ankarasaid, reports The Jerusalem Post.Fighters

DHAKA: Uruguay has become the first nation to legalise the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana after the country`s Senate gave final approval to the legislation.After a long debate on Tuesday, 16 of 29 senators voted in favour of the law championed by President Jose Mujica.The

DHAKA: NATO member Croatia may allow the use of its Adriatic ports to load Syria’s deadly chemicals onto a US ship for destruction offshore.Croatia prime minister Zoran Milanovic said on Tuesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.‘It is envisaged that they will be destroyed, probably in the

DHAKA: A large explosion shook Kabul’s international airport on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said, with police saying initial reports suggested it was an insurgent attack.‘Based on our information there was a explosion near KAIA,’ said deputy Kabul police chief Sayed Ghafar

DHAKA: The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps could not be destroyed completely, not even by thousands of enemy bombs.IRGC commander Mohammad Ali Jafari was quoted by Press TV as saying on Tuesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.‘If today, the enemy…strikes us with thousands of bombs via a

DHAKA: The red-shirt supporters of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Wednesday they could take to the streets to protect the government from protesters who have forced her to call a snap election, setting the scene for a possible confrontation.The warning by the ‘red

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama may have moved the masses attending Nelson Mandela’s memorial service with his stirring eulogy on Tuesday, but it was his grinning ‘selfie’ with the Danish and British premiers that set social networks abuzz.In a candid moment captured by AFP

DHAKA: An overnight fire at a farmers’ market in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen killed at least 15 people and injured five, local authorities said today (Dec 11).Shenzhen’s fire department said on its microblog that the fire broke out about 1.30am today at the wholesale market

DHAKA: Hundreds of police have moved in on a large protest camp in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, clashing with protesters.Al Jazeera`s Tim Friend, reporting from Independence Square, said barricades came down as police in full riot gear advanced on protesters early on Wednesday