AFP: Survivors of India's deadliest stampede in over a decade on Wednesday recalled the horror of being crushed at a vastly overcrowded Hindu religious gathering that left 121 people dead. A police report said more than 250,000 people attended the event in northern India's ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: North Korea successfully tested a new tactical ballistic missile capable of carrying a super-large warhead, state media said Tuesday, with analysts suggesting the weapon could be nuclear-capable. Pyongyang's state media claimed it had successfully launched the Hwasong- ...বিস্তারিত
AFP:Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto has undergone leg surgery but is continuing to work as he recovers, a spokesman said Tuesday. The defence minister and former general, who had suffered for years from a limp attributed to parachuting accidents, underwent surge ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Monday that talks would soon resume with the United States, which has reimposed crippling sanctions on the South American country's oil industry, as he looks towards this month's election. Maduro claimed that Washington had init ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: At an empty concrete lot in southwest China, Loulee Wilson scoops a handful of stones into a bag -- a memento from the site where she believes she was abandoned as a baby. Wilson, an American college student, was born in China but given away by parents presumed fearful ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his new government on Sunday with the former opposition parties getting 12 out of 32 portfolios after the ruling ANC lost its outright parliamentary majority. The African National Congress (ANC), which has governed the ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: Former Australian deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce bemoaned his "incredibly boring" life without alcohol and cigarettes on Monday, saying he now needed to pay attention when guests "prattle on" at official functions. The colourful cattle-farming politician, who once ...বিস্তারিত
AFP:French President Emmanuel Macron and his allies were on Monday beginning a week of intense campaigning ahead of the second round of legislative elections to prevent the far right in a historic first from taking an absolute majority and control of government. The far-rig ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: From Gerald Ford's catastrophic Soviet gaffe to Ronald Reagan's witty remark about his age and Joe Biden asking Donald Trump to "shut up," US presidential debates have been funny, vicious and everything in between. Here are some of the most memorable moments from more ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is "rediscovering" life as he tastes freedom in Australia after a five-year stretch in a London high-security prison, his wife said Yesterday. The 52-year-old landed in Canberra the night before, hours after pleading guilty in a US Paci ...বিস্তারিত
