Tag: World news

At least 42 people have died after the luxury bus they were travelling in caught fire in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh, police said. The bus, carrying more than 50 passengers, was travelling from Bangalore city to Hyderabad, Andhra…

There are fears many civilians may still be trapped in a besieged suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus, despite thousands being allowed to leave.

Steve Herman Bangkok — Activists in Southeast Asia say thousands of people are fleeing Bangladesh and Burma by sea, resuming a seasonal migration that has seen many head south in recent years. Nearly all are attempting to illegally enter Malaysia…

The US Senate’s intelligence committee has announced a major review of the country’s surveillance operations. The committee’s chair, Diane Feinstein, said eavesdropping on leaders of friendly nations was wrong.

A railway tunnel underneath the Bosphorus Strait is due to open in Turkey, creating a new link between the Asian and European shores of Istanbul. The tunnel is the world’s first connecting two continents, and is designed to withstand earthquakes.

Chinese state media have said at least five people died and 38 others were injured after a vehicle crashed in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Three of those killed were inside the car and the other two were bystanders.

Spain has urged the US to give details of any eavesdropping, amid that reports it monitored 60 million Spanish telephone calls in a month. The US ambassador to Spain, who had been summoned by its EU minister, vowed to clear…

Patna — A series of small bomb blasts killed five people and injured dozens Sunday in an east Indian city just before a massive campaign rally by the country’s main opposition prime ministerial candidate in a nearby park.

The Duke of Cambridge has indicated he will be soon taking his new son Prince George to see his team, Aston Villa.

A Chinese court has rejected the appeal of former politician Bo Xilai and upheld his life sentence for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power.

The gap between men and women has narrowed slightly in the past year in most countries, according to a World Economic Forum (WEF) report.

Germany has summoned the US ambassador in Berlin over claims that the US monitored German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone.

Beijing — China says the proposed Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar economic corridor could “change the geo-political map in Asia and the world.”

Russia has dropped piracy charges against 30 Greenpeace activists, replacing them with hooliganism charges, according to officials.

President Barack Obama has caught a woman who was apparently about to faint while he hosted a press conference at the White House.

At least 30 people have been killed by a suicide truck bombing on the edge of the central Syrian city of Hama.

Opposition supporters in the Maldives have staged protests after police intervened to stop the presidential election from taking place.

A car bomb has exploded outside a military intelligence building in the Egyptian city of Ismailiya, north-east of Cairo.

French President Francois Hollande has said a Roma girl who was removed from her school bus and deported can return to finish her studies, but that her family cannot.

Saudi Arabia has turned down a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, accusing the world body of “double standards”.

Militants have attacked a heavily-fortified international compound on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, Kabul, security sources say.

A United Nations investigator has called on the US to make public its data about drone strikes and civilian casualties.

Chemical weapons inspectors in Syria have been unable to access one of the designated sites because of safety concerns, the world’s chemical weapons watchdog has told the BBC.

Eleven Nobel prize-winners have written to Vladimir Putin asking the Russian president to drop charges against 30 Greenpeace activists and journalists. The 30, who come from 18 nations, were held last month during a protest against oil drilling in the…

Hundreds of thousands of US government employees are heading back to work after President Barack Obama signed a law ending a 16-day government shutdown and extending the US debt limit.

Iran could allow unannounced visits to its nuclear sites as a “last step” in a proposal to resolve differences with the West, an Iranian official says.

The US Senate is expected to take up a bipartisan bill to raise the debt limit and reopen the US government, just a day before a critical deadline.

A provincial law minister and at least seven other people have been killed in a bombing in north-west Pakistan during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

World powers and Iran have expressed “cautious optimism” at the start of their first nuclear talks since Hassan Rouhani became Iran’s president.

US Senate leaders have expressed optimism after a flurry of negotiations on raising the federal debt ceiling to avert a potentially disastrous default.