Australia triumphs in cricket World Cup.
Australia won the battle of the hosts to lift cricket's World Cup for the fifth time with a seven-wicket win over New Zealand in Melbourne Sunday.Chasing a modest 184 for victory in front of a world record crowd at the MCG,
Bodies found in rubble of New York building explosion.
Crews searching at the site where a building exploded in New York's East Village found two bodies in the rubble Sunday.The victims' remains have not yet been officially identified,
German newspaper releases timeline of Germanwings flight before crash.
The sounds recorded on one of the "black boxes" recovered from downed Germanwings Flight 9525 firms up investigators' theory that the co-pilot locked the captain out of the cockpit and then crashed the plane."For God's sake, open the door!"
Aspirants submit nominations AL, BNP-backed candidates among 60 in race for 3 mayors .
Aspiring candidates from the rival political camps have submitted nomination papers in the three city corporation polls in Dhaka and Chittagong scheduled for April 28 although it was still uncertain whether candidates from the opposition camp would be in the race finally.
Spectrum auction deferred by 3 weeks amid telcos’ boycott threat.
The country’s telecom regulator on Sunday deferred the April 30 auction of remaining 2G, 3G spectrum to May 20 as the mobile phone companies continue to put pressure on the government to resolve Tk 3,000 crore SIM replacement tax before the auction.
Mayoral aspirants submit nomination papers in city.
Mayoral aspirants for the bifurcated Dhaka City Corporations are submitting nomination papers on the last day.Heavyweight candidates backed by two major political alliances have submitted their nomination papers amid festivity.
BNP, allies call 48-hour hartal except , Ctg.
Bangladesh Nationalist party-led alliance on Sunday called a fresh 48-hour general strike across the country coupled with its non-stop transport blockade that has been continuing since January 6.
Nigerian election extended one day in some areas amid problems.
Voting in Nigeria's presidential elections was extended one day, until Sunday, in several areas because ballot paper arrived late or new digital voting card readers failed, officials said Saturday.
Lee Kuan Yew: Lessons for leaders from Asia's 'Grand Master'.
The death of the founding father of Singapore last Monday is an appropriate occasion to reflect on nation building.As prime minister for its first three decades,
Customs duty structure to be in consistent with trading partners.
The government is going to revise the existing customs duty structure to make it up-to-date and consistent with the duty structure of other trading partner countries, officials of the commerce ministry said.
