Climate disasters may double without emissions cut: ADB

Climate disasters may double in the next two decades unless the world cuts its carbon dioxide emissions, the Asian Development Bank
27 November 2015

EU risks falling like Roman Empire

Europe risks collapsing like the Roman Empire over the refugee crisis, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has warned according to the Financial Times, as his country gears up to be the next EU president.
27 November 2015

'We won't give in to fear or hate'

President Francois Hollande yesterday vowed that France would respond to the "army of fanatics" which carried out the Paris attacks with more songs, concerts and shows, as the nation paused to pay homage to the victims.
27 November 2015

Anti-Muslim crime soars in Britain by 300 percent

Anti-Muslim hate crimes rose 300 percent in Britain in the week following the coordinated attacks in Paris, according to figures
23 November 2015

France, Britain to step up fight against IS

President Francois Hollande received strong backing from British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday as global efforts to crush
23 November 2015

Russia pounds IS in Syria

Russia has bombed the Islamic State group in the heaviest strikes in eastern Syria since the war began, as Moscow's military manoeuvres in the Mediterranean forced Lebanon to reroute flights.
21 November 2015

Ebola-free Liberia sees new case: WHO

The World Health Organization yesterday confirmed that a new case of the deadly Ebola virus has surfaced in Liberia, which was declared
20 November 2015

She 'did not blow herself up'

Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the woman believed to have blown herself up during the police raid that killed the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, swapped her party-girl persona for that of an Islamist radical just months before her death.
20 November 2015

Tapped phone led 'ring leader' to his death

The top suspect behind last week's Paris attacks was watched by police being led into a building by a woman suicide bomber the evening before they both died there during a raid by special forces, a police source said yesterday.
20 November 2015

Paris attacks: Abdelhamid Abaaoud 'died in Saint Denis raid'

The suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, has been identified as one of those killed in a raid in Saint Denis, the Paris prosecutor says.
19 November 2015

Bid to abduct schoolgirl, two held

Local people caught two abductors red handed when they made an attempt to kidnap a schoolgirl in Munshiganj Sadar upazila yesterday.
18 November 2015

Gunshots rattle Paris suburb

A woman suicide bomber blew herself up in a police raid that sources said had foiled a jihadi plan to hit Paris's business district, days after attacks that killed 129 across the French capital.
18 November 2015

Italian doctor comes under gun attack

Yet another foreigner came under attack by unidentified assailants in Dinajpur yesterday, around one and a half months after two others were shot dead in the capital and Rangpur.
18 November 2015

Govt blocks Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber

The government has ordered blocking popular social networking platform Facebook and online messaging and calling services WhatsApp and Viber this morning.
18 November 2015

Paris attacks: Police in deadly swoop on apartment in northern suburb

Armed police have raided a flat in the north Paris suburb of Saint Denis in an operation linked to Friday's attacks.
18 November 2015

Paris attacks: Video 'shows ninth attacker'

French security sources say that surveillance video shows a possible ninth assailant during Friday's attacks in which 129 people died.
18 November 2015

France steps up efforts to crush Islamic State

French warplanes pounded Islamic State targets and Russia vowed to ramp up its bombing campaign in Syria
17 November 2015

SQ Chy's review hearing pushed to tomorrow

The Supreme Court has set a fresh date, tomorrow, for the review hearing on war criminal and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s death penalty.
17 November 2015

Friend standing next to American killed in Paris attacks speaks out

The American who was killed in the assault on Paris celebrated her 23rd birthday there last month. Nohemi Gonzalez was a student at Cal State-Long Beach on a semester abroad.
17 November 2015

Quick thinking, solid security, attackers' mistakes averted massacre at Paris stadium

Quick thinking, solid security, attackers' mistakes may have averted massacre at Paris stadium.
17 November 2015