DHAKA: Egypt is to shorten a nightime curfew imposed on Cairo and 13 provinces starting on Saturday.Egypt Cabinet said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.The curfew will be from midnight to 5am, except on Fridays when it will begin at 7:00pm, according to a Cabinet statement.The

DHAKA: An Egyptian police officer was shot dead on Thursday, state media reported, during a security operation on the outskirts of Cairo aimed at reasserting control over an area where gunmen killed 11 policemen last month.The police had earlier fired tear gas and exchanged gunfire with

DHAKA: Australia’s new conservative government on Thursday abolished an independent climate change commission set up by the previous Labor administration, as part of its plans to streamline bureaucracy.The Climate Commission was set up to provide apolitical and reliable information to

DHAKA: Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday instructed Tokyo Electric Power Co to decommission the No. 5 and No. 6 reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.The other four reactors at the six-reactor plant, devastated by a massive earthquake and towering

DHAKA: It is crucial to keep the military option on the table in dealing with the Syria crisis, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday.‘I think it is essential for keeping momentum in the diplomatic and political process that the military option is still on the

DHAKA: Iran’s new president Hassan Rohani has said that his country would never build nuclear weapons.Rohani also told US broadcaster NBC he had full authority to negotiate with the West over Tehran’s controversial uranium enrichment programme, reports the BBC.And he described a

DHAKA: Egyptian troops and police have stormed the Kerdassah district in the outskirts of Cairo to clear it of "terrorist elements", security officials said, triggering clashes with armed groups based in the area.Vehicles carrying armed personnel were sent into the village on Thursday

DHAKA: The United Nations General Assembly opened its annual session with its gaze firmly fixed on the decades ahead as its new President outlined the need to lay the groundwork for global sustainable development in the years following the end of the current development cycle in 2015.The

DHAKA: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he is committed to a plan to destroy his country`s chemical weapons but warned it could take about a year.Speaking to Fox News, Mr Assad again denied claims that his forces were responsible for a deadly chemical attack near Damascus on 21

DHAKA: Short lines of text on electronic devices may help some dyslexic readers increase their reading speed and comprehension, research suggests.US scientists studied 100 pupils reading on paper and e-readers.On the device, those who struggled most with sight-word reading read faster and

DHAKA: Iran is reported to have freed at least eight political prisoners, including noted human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh.Ms Sotoudeh was arrested in 2010 and jailed for six years on charges of acting against national security.The release of the political prisoners comes just days

DHAKA: Cristiano Ronaldo underlined just why Real Madrid agreed to pay him the big bucks on a scintillating evening of European football.The 28-year-old, who inked a new five-year deal with the Spanish club on Sunday, completed a brilliant hat trick as Real raced to a 6-1 rout against

DHAKA: At least five people are dead after a Via Rail train and an Ottawa city bus collided at a level crossing in the city`s south-west end Wednesday morning, according to Canada’s CTV News.Fire officials in Ottawa confirmed there have been ‘multiple fatalities’ and at least a

DHAKA: Russia will show the UN Security Council evidence it has received from Syria’s government pointing to the use of chemical weapons by rebels in the Damascus suburbs.Russian news agencies quoted foreign minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem

DHAKA: The head of the UN inspection team that visited Syria following the August 21 chemical weapons attack in eastern Damascus said on Wednesday that his team plans to return to the war-torn country as early as next week.CNN reported, says The Jerusalem Post.The team intends to follow

DHAKA: Police say there are multiple deaths after a Via Rail passenger train and a transit bus collided at a crossing in Canada’s capital, Ottawa.Witnesses said on Wednesday the front end of the double-decker bus was ripped off by the impact, reports gulfnews.com.Ottawa Fire spokesman

DHAKA: An Iranian official said on Wednesday that he saw an ‘opening’ in Iran’s nuclear dispute with the West, a news agency reported, in the latest signal that Tehran expects fresh movement to break a decade-old deadlock.The United States and its allies believe Iran is seeking a

DHAKA: A majority of Europeans and Americans strongly oppose their countries intervening militarily in Syria’s 30-month-old civil war, according to a transatlantic poll published on Wednesday.‘Transatlantic Trends’, an annual survey of public opinion in the United States and Europe,

DHAKA: Egypt partially reopened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a week after it was closed in response to a deadly attack on an Egyptian military headquarters near the frontier.Witnesses said two buses took 100 passengers into Egypt through the Rafah crossing, the

DHAKA: The French senate has overwhelmingly approved a proposal to ban beauty contests for girls under 16 to prevent what a parliamentary report called the ‘hyper-sexualisation’ of children.The proposal was backed by 146 lawmakers and there was only one dissenting vote on Tuesday