DHAKA: The death toll from Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster exceeded 900 on Thursday as rescuers pulled out scores more bodies from the rubble of a nine-storey building that collapsed outside Dhaka last month."The death toll now stands at 912", Lieutenant Sadiq Walid, an official in the army control room set up to coordinate the disaster relief efforts, told AFP, adding more than 100 bodies were recovered overnight....
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged a fresh clampdown on immigration in the Queen's Speech on Wednesday, seeking to bolster his right-wing credentials against the rise of the UK Independence Party (UKIP).Measures to restrict migrants' rights to healthcare and make it easier to deport foreigners were at the heart of the solidly Conservative proposals in the speech, which sets out the government's legislative plans for the year ahead....
MANILA: Efforts by the Philippine election commission to curb rampant vote-buying and alcohol consumption before elections next week turned into farce Wednesday as other branches of government blocked its orders.The Supreme Court suspended a Commission on Elections order for a five-day liquor ban, while the central bank said another order banning the carrying of large sums of money was illegal....
CLEVELAND: Three brothers have been arrested here in connection with the kidnapping of three women found safe in a home after being missing for a decade, authorities said Tuesday.There were more questions than answers the day after the stunning turn of events that began with a frantic arm sticking out of a screen door, a woman screaming for help, and a neighbour kicking in the door to free her in a working-class neighborhood of the city in the American heartland....
CHICAGO: Three young US women who went missing around a decade ago -- two of whom disappeared as teenagers -- were found alive Monday in a house in Cleveland, as police arrested three suspects.The dramatic discovery -- just a few miles from where the women went missing -- ended years of anguished searching by their families and drew hundreds of cheering people to the usually quiet, residential street in the state of Ohio....
MANILA: Five people are feared dead after one of the Philippines' most active volcanoes spewed a giant ash cloud on Tuesday, with foreign tourists on its slopes during the eruption, authorities said.National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council chief Eduardo del Rosario said local officials reported that up to 20 climbers and guides, including foreigners, were on Mount Mayon when it erupted....
LONDON: A deputy speaker of Britain's lower house of parliament said Sunday that allegations of raping one man and sexually assaulting another were completely false, adding that he had previously regarded both men as friends.Nigel Evans, 55, a lawmaker in Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party, issued the denial a day after he was questioned over the alleged attacks on two men in their twenties....
DHAKA - The UN's labour agency urged Bangladesh to close unsafe factories as rescuers Saturday pulled more bodies from the wreckage of the nation's worst industrial disaster in which at least 548 have died. The collapse of the eight-storey garment factory complex outside Dhaka last week was the latest in a string of catastrophes to befall the country's $20 billion textile industry which accounts for 80 percent of Bangladesh's exports....
DHAKA: The death toll from last week's collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh passed 500 Friday as the country's prime minister said Western retailers had to share some of the blame for the tragedy.With bulldozers now clawing away at the mountain of rubble at the site of last Wednesday's disaster, the number of bodies being recovered from the country's deadliest industrial disaster has been increasing sharply....
BRUSSELS: Europe needs to come up with a plan within weeks to end the nightmare of mounting youth unemployment, Italy's new premier Enrico Letta and European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said Thursday.Winding up his first European tour since being sworn in on Sunday, Letta urged the European Union to offer concrete measures to its recession-hit citizens and jobless youths in order to revive hope in the EU's future....
