DHAKA: Rescuers in Pakistan are striving to reach victims of a massive earthquake that struck the country`s southwest, killing at least 327 people, wounding more than 500 and flattening thousands of mud-built homes.The 7.7 magnitude quake struck Balochistan’s Awaran district on Tuesday

DHAKA: Eleven Islamist rebel groups in Syria have announced they do not recognise the authority of the main opposition alliance, the National Coalition.A joint statement says, ‘All groups formed abroad without having returned to the country do not represent us’.They also call for the

DHAKA: Dutch police closed two department stores and a restaurant in the city of Haarlem on Wednesday after someone tweeted threats of a ‘bloodbath’.Armed police were deployed outside V&D shops and a restaurant in the city to the west of Amsterdam after ‘threatening tweets’ were

DHAKA: Rescuers in Pakistan are striving to reach victims of a massive earthquake that struck the country’s southwest, killing more than 270 people and flattening thousands of mud-built homes.The 7.7 magnitude quake struck Balochistan’s Awaran district on Tuesday at 4:29pm local time

DHAKA: A British national has been arrested in Nairobi following the mall siege that killed at least 67 people.Kenya the Foreign Office in London said on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.According to the Daily Mail newspaper, a 35-year-old Briton of Somali origin was arrested at

DHAKA: A small island created in the Arabian Sea by the huge earthquake that hit southwest Pakistan has fascinated locals but experts say it is unlikely to last long.The 7.7-magnitude quake struck on Tuesday in Baluchistan’s remote Awaran district, killing more than 200 people and

DHAKA: A robot that picks ripe strawberries as the farmer sleeps was unveiled in Japan on Wednesday, with its developer saying it could cut workloads by two-thirds.The device, which can gather a piece of fruit every eight seconds, uses three cameras to determine which strawberries are

DHAKA: A team of UN chemical weapons experts arrived in the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, an international media correspondent said, ahead of new investigations into the use of the banned arms.The team, led by chief expert Ake Sellstrom, flew into the Lebanese capital Beirut on

DHAKA: The United Nations voiced concern on Wednesday over the fate of more than 100,000 Filipinos displaced by two weeks of fighting between government troops and Muslim rebels, saying they were at risk of disease from crowded and unsanitary conditions in evacuation centres.The

DHAKA: India urged Sri Lanka on Wednesday to share political power with ethnic minority Tamils after their victory in local council elections, in a bid for ‘genuine reconciliation’ after a decades-long war.The opposition Tamil alliance swept to victory at the weekend in the first

DHAKA: One in three young Japanese women wants to get married and be a full-time housewife, a government survey has showed, despite growing calls for increased female participation in the workforce.The poll, which quizzed more than 3,000 people aged 15-39, found 34 percent of unmarried

DHAKA: Moderate Syrian rebels are engaged in their fiercest fighting to date with al-Qaida-affiliated fighters on Syria’s northern and eastern borders.A senior US State Department official said on Tuesday, The Jerusalem Post publishes this report on Wednesday.‘There is a real

DHAKA: Australian road safety researchers on Wednesday unveiled a pioneering ‘attention-powered car’ which uses a headset to monitor brain activity and slow acceleration during periods of distraction.The car, commissioned by the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) of Western Australia, is

DHAKA: Pakistan`s military on Wednesday rushed to reach the scene of a huge earthquake that killed more than 260 people and toppled thousands of mud-built homes when it hit the country`s southwest.The 7.8-magnitude quake struck Tuesday afternoon in Balochistan province`s Awaran district

DHAKA: More than a quarter of 18- to 24-year-olds in Britain do not trust Muslims, a BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat poll suggests.Of the 1,000 young people questioned, 28% said Britain would be better off with fewer Muslims, while 44% said Muslims did not share the same values as the rest of the

FROM UN HEADQUARTER: A number of incidents have taken place in the ongoing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York and some of those were informal. Some are as follows:US President Barack Obama met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina three times during current UNGA but none of those

DHAKA: At least 217 people were killed and 350 others were wounded after a 7.7 magnitude earthqauke struck the southwestern province of Balochistan, which also prompted a new island to rise from the sea just off Pakistan`s southern coast, officials said.Home Secretary Asad Gilani told

DHAKA: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says he is prepared to engage in "time-bound and results-oriented" talks on his country`s nuclear programme.He told the UN General Assembly`s annual meeting in New York that sanctions against Iran were "violent".He also welcomed Syria`s acceptance

DHAKA: A strong earthquake of 7.8 magnitude struck the southwestern province of Balochistan on Tuesday, killing at least 55 people and prompting a new island to rise from the sea just off Pakistan`s southern coast, officials said.Spokesman Frontier Corps (FC) Khan Wasey had earlier said

DHAKA: Kenyan officials said early on Tuesday that their forces were ‘in control’ of a mall in the capital where Somalia’s Islamist al Shabaab launched a raid.‘Our forces are combing the mall floor by floor looking for anyone left behind,’ the Ministry of Interior and