Country codes for teams taking part in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow from July 23-August 3: AIA: Anguilla, ANT: Antigua and Barbuda, AUS: Australia, BAH: Bahamas, BAN: Bangladesh, BAR: Barbados, BIZ: Belize, BER: Bermuda, BOT: Botswana, IVB: British Virgin Islands,...
An 18-year-old Australian man was behind a deadly suicide bomb attack in Iraq last week, authorities said Monday, with Attorney-General George Brandis calling it a ‘disturbing development’. The blast last Thursday near a mosque in Baghdad left several dead, including...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel rescued 424 women and 150 children in the last six months while they were being illegally trafficked through different points of the border. Some 173 cases were lodged in this connection and eleven traffickers were...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said ‘all the right things’ in a call with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who Monday demanded he back his words with action over Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. The two leaders spoke overnight in their first...
Philippine President Benigno Aquino presided over the opening on Monday of what is billed as the world's largest indoor stadium, erected by a politically-influential religious sect. The $175-million Philippine Arena, which can seat 55,000 people, was hailed as a showcase...
Six Nobel peace laureates have called for a military embargo on Israel in the wake of the recent Gaza strikes which claimed more than 500 lives. In an open letter, they have urged the UN and governments to impose it...
China says it has the right to send a surveillance ship to monitor a US-led naval exercise, after US media reported the vessel's presence off Hawaii over the weekend. Navy ships had the right under international law to operate in...
The Twitter accounts of the Kenyan defence forces and its spokesman have been hacked by activists protesting about corruption. ‘All of you who have stolen money #Kenya, we are coming after you,’ reads one post. The hacked posts were signed...
HIV can rapidly form invulnerable strongholds in the body, dashing hopes that early treatment might cure the virus, according to new research. A baby was thought to have been cured with treatment hours after birth, but the virus emerged years...
Georgian Prime Minister Irakly Garibashvili fired five ministers on Monday and moved two to other ministerial positions in the first cabinet reshuffle since coming to power two years ago. None of the major positions changed hands. The coalition government, initially...
BlackBerry Limited (BB.TO) named Marty Beard as its chief operating officer on Monday, filling a position that had been vacant since November following a management reshuffle. Beard was most recently chief executive officer of LiveOps Inc, a provider of cloud...
BNP on Monday warned that the judiciary will lose its head and effectiveness if parliament’s power to impeach judges is restored. “It’ll be tantamount to beheading the judiciary if parliament’s power to impeach judges is restored. It’ll also contribute to...
Britain and the Netherlands agreed on Saturday that the European Union will have to re-evaluate its approach to Russia due to evidence that Ukrainian separatists downed a Malaysian aircraft. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and his Dutch counterpart, Mark Rutte,...
Heavy fighting has erupted around Tripoli International Airport, where rival militias have been battling for a week for control of the site, local residents said on Sunday. The fighting broke out just days after one powerful militia said it was...
A week on from its World Cup soccer victory, Germany may return to center stage, though this time not with fan celebrations but concerns over the health of Europe's economic motor. Investors saw dark clouds building on Friday after a...
Bangladesh will discuss its ‘issues of interest’ over its participation in the UN peacekeeping operations during the visit of Under Secretary General for Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Hervé Ladsous to Dhaka. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said this at...
James Garner, a legendary television and movie star, has passed away at the age of 86. Garner was pronounced dead at his home at 8 PM Saturday night in Los Angeles. The Oklahoma native and US Army veteran got his...
Rapid of Action Battalion (RAB) personnel arrested three people with 597 pieces of Yaba tablets at Godagari Upazila in Rajshahi district on Saturday. The arrested are: Mojibur Rahman, 42, Ibrahim Hossain, 30, and Rakibul Islam, 27. On a tip-off, a...
France warned Russia Sunday there would be ‘consequences’ if Moscow did not put pressure on pro-Kremlin separatists in Ukraine to allow rescuers and investigators unfettered access to the crash site of flight MH17. ‘If Russia does not immediately take the...
Pakistani officials on Sunday accused Indian troops of killing a civilian and wounding four others in ‘unprovoked firing’ across the border in its eastern province of Punjab. India and Pakistan often accuse each other of violating a 2003 ceasefire agreement....
Brazil plans to use Japanese technology in building a floating structure and ships for its huge offshore oil development project, media reports said Sunday. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will announce the use of Japanese...
With freezing winters where the mercury can sink well below zero and cool summers, Finland will never be a destination of choice for the world's sun-seekers. But its chilly weather has attracted technology giants such as Google and Microsoft that...
Australia's axing of its carbon tax and a plan to replace it by offering incentives to polluters to increase their energy efficiency ‘the perfect storm of stupidity’, scientists and academics argue. The repeal of the divisive levy, a fundamental pledge...
Thousands gathered on Sunday for a final farewell to 284 people killed in Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, after their remains were exhumed from one of the largest mass graves found in the country. ‘I hope it will be easier now,’ said...
Miscreants have shot an engineer on a motorbike near the Adabor Police Station to snatch away Tk 250,000 from him. Within a few hours of this incident, a businessman carrying Tk 50,000 was shot by muggers in Kamalapur. Transactions are...
The remains of up to 196 people from the MH17 crash in Ukraine have been loaded on to refrigerated rail wagons, to be taken to an unknown destination. All 298 people on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 died when a missile...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for London on Monday morning to attend Girl Summit 2014 to be held in the UK capital on Tuesday where she is set to highlight her government’s firm pledges to eliminate child marriage for...
Gaza has come under the most intense shelling since the launch of Israel's offensive, with more than 50 people reported killed in one district. The deaths occurred at Shejaiya, east of Gaza City, Palestinian medics said. Eyewitnesses spoke of bodies...
A US court has ordered the country's second largest cigarette company to pay $23.6 billion (£13.8bn) to the wife of a smoker who died of lung cancer. RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company was hit with the punitive fine in addition to...
Israel's Government Press Office on Saturday warned foreign journalists it was not responsible for their safety in the Gaza Strip, where the Jewish state has launched an offensive against Palestinian militants. Israel sent ground forces into Hamas-dominated Gaza on Thursday...
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