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47 killed as Afghan forces end Kabul siege
Kabul: Afghan forces on Monday regained control over parts of the capital Kabul after killing all the 36 Taliban militants - some wearing burqas - who unleashed the biggest wave of coordinated suicide attacks in a decade.
The brazen 18-hour…
B'desh minister resigns over midnight cash scandal
Dhaka: Bangladesh's embattled Railway Minister Suranjit Sengupta on Monday resigned from his post four months after assuming office following the last week's midnight cash scandal.
"I am resigning for the sake of impartial investigations,"…
B’desh minister resigns over midnight cash scandal
Dhaka: Bangladesh's embattled Railway Minister Suranjit Sengupta on Monday resigned from his post four months after assuming office following the last week's midnight cash scandal.
"I am resigning for the sake of impartial investigations,"…
384 prisoners escape from Pak jail after Taliban attack
Islamabad: A total of 384 prisoners, including some "dangerous" militants, escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan on Sunday after it was attacked by more than 100 Taliban fighters armed with rockets and automatic weapons.
The prisoners,…
Afghan capital hit by multiple blasts, gun attacks
Kabul: Suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan in coordinated attacks on Sunday, with explosions and gunfire rocking the diplomatic enclave in the capital as militants took over a hotel and tried to enter parliament. Taliban insurgents…
Magnitude 6.4 quake off Indonesia’s Sumatra
Jakarta: A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Sunday but there were no reports of damage, the geophysics agency said.
"The epicentre is in the sea and there is no tsunami warning because at less…
Tornadoes pound US plains
KANSAS CITY: A spate of tornadoes tore through parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, churning through Wichita and other areas while causing property damage but no immediate reports of deaths or widespread injuries.
Tornadoes skipped…
SA Prez Zuma to marry at 70
Johannesburg: South African President Jacob Zuma is to marry his long-time fiancee, Bongi Ngema, next weekend.
According to the Sunday Times, the president’s spokesperson, Mac Maharaj, confirmed that the president would formalise his…
Washington UK’s ‘greatest foe ever’
London: George Washington has been named as the greatest foe ever faced by the British, according to a contest run by the National Army Museum to identify the country’s most outstanding military opponent.
The first President of US was one…
Life on Mars found in 1976, boiled by mistake
London: Bungling NASA scientists are believed to have found tiny live microbes on Mars — but mistakenly killed them by boiling them alive, a media report said on Saturday.
Two spacecraft that landed on the Red Planet in 1976 are now thought…