Blogger Avijit hacked to death.
Avijit Roy, a free-thinking blogger, was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants on the Dhaka University campus on Thursday night. His wife Rafida Ahmed was grievously injured in the attack that bore the hallmark
Stunning turnaround: Qantas is profitable again.
Emerging just a year after perhaps the bleakest financial period in its history, Qantas has rebounded in dramatic fashion.On Thursday, Australia's national carrier announced an after-tax interim profit..
The names: This is who ISIS has recruited from the West.
More than 20,000 foreigners have flocked to fight for ISIS, the radical Sunni group that controls portions of Iraq and Syria.They hail from 90 countries, and an estimated 3,400 fighters come
Tigers eye a ‘Miracle of Melbourne’
Angelo Mathews did something on his Melbourne Cricket Ground debut five years ago that hardly anyone can expect from a youngster. From 107-8, Mathews, then only 22, lifted Sri Lanka to 240 with an unbeaten 77
2 sustain burn injuries, 4 vehicles torched in lacklustre blockade, hartal.
The opposition sponsored nonstop countrywide transport blockade reinforced by the weeklong general strike passed its 51st day largely peacefully on Wednesday, barring some sporadic incidents of vandalism,
Manna on 10-day remand.
Nagarik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna was placed on a 10-day remand in police custody in a case filed by police for allegedly ‘trying to instigate revolt in the armed forces.’ Manna, in court,
Amnesty calls on UN powers to lose veto on genocide votes
Amnesty International has urged the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to give up their power of veto in situations of mass atrocities.
Jury finds Eddie Ray Routh guilty in 'American Sniper' case.
No one disputes that Eddie Ray Routh shot and killed Chris Kyle and another man. But his lawyers wanted to convince a jury he wasn't sane when he did so.It took a Texas jury less than three hours to deliver its verdict:
Arrest warrant issued for Khaleda Zia, 2 others.
A special judges’ court in Dhaka on Wednesday issued arrest warrant for Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and two others in 2 graft cases. The makeshift court housed in an Alia Madrasah complex...........
Jabbar handed imprisonment until death
The International Crimes Tribunal -1 on Tuesday unanimously handed absconding former Jatiya Party MP engineer Abdul Jabbar imprisonment until natural death for genocide and other crimes against humanity.
