A-level grades have edged down this year, as pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland receive their results. There has been a slight fall in A* and A grades and the pass rate is down for the first time in...
A fragile ceasefire extension between Hamas and Israel entered its second day Friday as the two sides in the Gaza conflict ponder Egyptian-mediated efforts to secure a lasting peace. Egyptian mediators brokered the five-day extension to an existing truce to...
Around 10,000 Israelis poured into downtown Tel Aviv late Thursday, calling on the government and the army to end Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza once and for all. It was the first major demonstration in Israel since the country went...
Pope Francis warned of the ‘cancer’ of despair that afflicts outwardly affluent societies and called on South Korean Catholics to reject ‘inhuman economic models’ at a mass for 45,000 people Friday on the first papal trip to Asia in 15...
The UN's health agency said that the scale of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been vastly underestimated and ‘extraordinary measures’ were needed to contain the disease. As the official toll climbed to 1,069, according to World Health Organisation,...
Hollywood actor Robin Williams, found dead this week after an apparent suicide, was suffering from depression and the early stages of Parkinson's disease, his wife said Thursday. The beloved comedian's personal assistant found Williams hanging from his belt in a...
Nuri al-Maliki finally bowed to pressure within Iraq and beyond on Thursday and stepped down as prime minister, paving the way for a new coalition that world and regional powers hope can quash a Sunni Islamist insurgency that threatens Baghdad....
Indonesian police charged an American couple with murder Friday after the body of the woman's 62-year-old mother was found stuffed in a suitcase on the resort island of Bali. Heather Mack, 19, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, 21, both from...
Ukrainian border and customs officials have begun inspecting a mammoth Russian aid convoy before it crosses into Ukraine, a Kiev military spokesman said. ‘At 10:00am (0700 GMT) checks began of the Russian humanitarian assistance at the Russian border post of...
Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan said he and his followers were fired on by government supporters during a rally Friday, but police said that although there were clashes between the two sides no shots were fired. Khan is leading thousands...
Malaysia's economy grew a better-than-expected 6.4 per cent in the second quarter on the back of stronger exports and robust domestic demand, the central bank said Friday. Southeast Asia's third largest economy said exports jumped 14.2 per cent in the...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel in a drive arrested another accused in connection with Pinak-6 launch capsize incident from a house at Khilkhet in the city on Friday. The arrestee was identified as Omar Faruk Limon, 27, son of Pinak-6...
Jordan's Arab Bank went on trial Thursday in New York accused of aiding terror by transferring support funds to the families of Palestinians who died in the conflict with Israel. The families of several Americans killed in early 2000s attacks...
Custom officials seized eight gold bars weighing 933 gm and worth about Tk 4.1 million from a passenger of Air Arabia Airlines at Shah Amanat (RA) International Airport in Chittagong city on Friday morning. The passenger was identified as M...
Samsung said Friday it had reached a deal to buy a US home automation startup SmartThings, as the South Korean electronics giant aims to expand beyond the increasingly saturated smartphone market. The world's top smartphone maker said it had entered...
Gunmen armed with automatic weapons, grenades and wearing suicide vests attacked two military airbases in southwestern Pakistan early Friday, leaving eight militants dead after Pakistan security forces opened fire, officials said. Sarfaraz Bugti, the home minister of insurgency-hit Baluchistan province,...
At least three people were killed and two others injured when a bus collided with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway at Beltoli in Mymensingh Sadar Upazila on Friday. The deceased were identified as Atiqul Islam, Arif Hossain, driver of...
Coca-Cola announced Thursday it will pay $2.15 billion for a 16.7 per cent stake in Monster Beverage, cementing a distribution-based link between the two that had added significantly to Coke's profits. The deal would lock in for the soft drink...
Wal-Mart Stores lowered its 2014 profit outlook as it turns toward online sales amid weakness in its key US market, still struggling with a fragile economy. The world's largest retailer posted a slight profit rise and better-than-expected sales for the...
Hong Kong Friday cut its economic growth forecast for 2014 after an unexpected slowdown in second quarter expansion blamed on a fall-off in tourist spending and a slowdown in domestic demand. Gross domestic product grew 1.8 per cent in the...
Indonesia's small ethnic Chinese community faced severe discrimination for decades during the Suharto dictatorship. But the minority is now poised for a new milestone, with Jakarta soon to get its first ethnic Chinese governor. After Muslim-majority Indonesia threw off authoritarian...
India’s new right-wing premier Narendra Modi Friday announced an end to Soviet-style economic planning in an Independence Day speech as he pressed ahead with modernising the government's cumbersome policymaking apparatus. The commission, set up in 1950, was a relic of...
Japan hasn't emerged from years of deflation quite yet, the country's economy minister said Friday, after a sales tax hike sparked a sharp decline in second-quarter growth. The comments from Akira Amari came two days after fresh data showed the...
A gas explosion in a residential high-rise building in northern Taiwan killed a 1-year-old boy and injured 14 others Friday, just two weeks after a series of underground gas pipeline blasts killed 28 people in the island's south. The explosion...
Al-Qaida urged the family of an American aid worker it abducted in Pakistan three years ago to demand that the US government negotiate a prisoner exchange for his release. Warren Weinstein was abducted in August 2011, four days before his...
Dozens of riot police have sealed the offices of a newspaper critical of the Liberian government and officers attempted to detain its publisher. Police spokesman Sam Collins says the paper's criticisms could ‘plunge the country into confusion’ when the government...
Heavy rains and flooding in western and central Niger have killed 12 people and left thousands without food or shelter. The landlocked West African country has been hit by an alternating series of droughts and floods in recent years, causing...
Combat shook Mogadishu early Friday as government troops launched a dawn attack on a house belonging to a former warlord as part of a disarmament campaign. Seven people died in the violence. Explosions and gunfire were heard as troops battled...
Bangladesh is well ahead of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in terms of ‘state of peace’ though Nepal and Bhutan took the leading role as peaceful states in the South Asia, according to 2014 Global Peace Index (GPI) released recently. It...
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has alleged that Pakistani intelligence agency ISI and America’s CIA are in constant touch with anti-India militants, a section of whom are still using Bangladesh to operate. Sarkar after unfurling the Indian national flag on...
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