Thirteen people were killed and at least 30 more injured on Monday when a military transport truck flipped over on a major road in the Sierra Leone capital, a military spokesman said. The open-air truck was carrying more than 40 soldiers from their barracks to a funeral in Freetown when its brakes failed as it descended a steep hill. It ...

At least 10 people have been killed and dozens more injured in South Sudan after a hand grenade exploded in a nightclub packed with revellers. Some 500 people were dancing at a venue in the western city of Yambio on Friday when an attacker threw the missile into the crowd, according to police commissioner James Monday Enoka.   “We found ...

The number of people known to have died in Indonesia in Friday’s earthquake and tsunami has risen to more than 1,200, the country’s disaster response agency says. The death toll jumped on Tuesday from a previous confirmed figure of 844.   The 7.5-magnitude quake struck just off the central island of Sulawesi, setting off a tsunami that hit the coastal ...

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been jointly awarded to James Allison of the University of Texas and Tasuku Honjo of Japan’s Kyoto University for discovering a form of cancer therapy.   The 9 million-kronor ($1.01 million) prize was announced Monday by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute.  This year’s Nobel Prize recipients will be revealed starting Monday with ...

An airline says four passengers remain hospitalized after one of its planes crashed into a Pacific lagoon in Micronesia last week.   Air Niugini said in a statement Monday that the four are in stable condition at a Chuuk island hospital and would soon be taken to Guam for further treatment.  The Papua New Guinea national carrier says the four ...

Birmingham, Oct 1 : Britain’s chief Brexit minister is warning the European Union, and his divided party, that the country will leave the bloc without a deal rather than accept close adherence to its rules and obligations. Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab will tell Conservative Party members on Monday that if the EU tries to “lock us in via the back ...

The much-awaited mobile number portability (MNP) service for the country’s cell phone customers will start in early hours of Monday.   Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) will unveil the technical and commercial aspects of MNP at a press conference at its office this morning, said its media wing on Sunday.  Officials said all the mobile phone operators, public switched telephone ...

He says he lost all faith in her Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: Collected Dhaka, Sept 30 : Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said Malaysia will no longer support the leadership of Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi because of her handling of the Rohingya crisis in her country. ...

President Donald Trump has discussed global crude oil prices with Saudi King Salman in a telephone call amid the American leader’s call for OPEC to bring down energy prices. The state-run Saudi Press Agency reported the call late Saturday night, saying “the efforts to maintain supplies to ensure the stability of the oil market and ensure the growth of the ...

After Facebook admitted that hackers broke into nearly 50 million users’ accounts by stealing their “access tokens” or digital keys, cyber experts on Saturday warned over 2.3 billion users to log out and log back into Facebook, or any of third-party apps that use Facebook login.   Facebook has reset the access tokens of almost 50 million accounts it knew ...