Tuesday | February 10, 2026 | Dhaka
AFP :Two pilots have made a “miraculous” escape after their Boeing 737 water-bombing plane crashed and burned while fighting a blaze in remote Western Australia.The plane left a long scar in the scrub- and...
AFP :Sri Lanka’s president said on Wednesday the island nation will remain bankrupt for at least three more years as he works to repair battered government finances following an unprecedented economic crisis.Ranil Wickremesinghe took...
South China Morning Post :The scientist who sparked outrage after saying he was involved in creating the world’s first gene-edited babies has asked people to respect the children and allow them to live a...
AFP :Forest fires that have killed 26 people and left thousands homeless in south-central Chile in the past week threatened new regions Tuesday as temperatures soared.Some 5,600 firefighters, the majority of them volunteers, are...
AFP :Containing and cleaning up environmental pollution, especially in waterways, is crucial to controlling increasingly bullet-proof superbugs which could kill tens of millions by mid-century, a new UN report said on Tuesday.Superbugs-strains of bacteria...
AFP :Pakistan’s prime minister on Monday ordered authorities to unblock Wikipedia, the government announced, just days after the online encyclopedia was restricted for “blasphemous content”.Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Muslim-majority Pakistan, and social...
Reuters :Russia was pouring reinforcements into eastern Ukraine ahead of a possible new offensive, said a Ukrainian governor, but British intelligence said on Tuesday it was unlikely that Russia would have enough forces to...
AP :Landslides triggered by steady rains swept mud, water and rocks into several villages in southern Peru, killing at least 36 people, authorities said Monday.Wilson Gutierrez, a civil defense official in the Mariano Nicolas...
Reuters :Time is running out to save hundreds of families trapped under the rubble of buildings brought down by Monday’s earthquake, the head of the Syrian opposition-run civil defence service said on Tuesday.Raed al-Saleh...
Reuters :“They’re making noises but nobody is coming,” Deniz cried out, holding his hands to his head as he railed against the lack of efforts to rescue those trapped under rubble after a powerful...
AFP :In the frozen fields of the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, a T-64 tank emerges ominously from its hiding place under camouflage netting, churning the snow into mud under its tracks.The rusting Soviet-era...
AFP :Six months after being stabbed, British author Salman Rushdie on Tuesday publishes his new novel “Victory City”, an “epic tale” of a 14th-century woman who defies a patriarchal world to rule a city....