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The Foreign Secretary handed over a letter from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Hasina in which he expressed his eagerness to visit Bangladesh soon.

Forces from the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Farabi Shafiur Rahman, who was previously jailed for his ties to the extremist Hizbut Tahrir Islamist group.

Avijit Roy, an engineer of Bangladeshi origin, was killed by machete-wielding assailants on Thursday while returning from a book fair.

In an extremely rare case, a 60-year-old woman in Austria has given birth to twins following IVF treatment.

Vandals used bricks to break several windows and then painted the word "fear" on the wall of the Kent Hindu Temple late Thursday night.

Minister of Public Order John Amaratunga asked the police to expedite investigation into the complaints of financial crimes and frauds during the Rajapaksa government.

Lee Kuan Yew, is still on mechanical ventilation in an intensive care unit in hospital, the prime minister's office said.

Sir Malcolm Rifkind also stepped down as chair of the House of Commons' Intelligence and Security Committee and said he would not be contesting another election as Member of Parliament.

Witness Musa Ayuba said the girl arrived at the Tashan Dan Borno bus station in a rickshaw and was trying to board a bus when she detonated the bomb.

Most of the victims were children who had either been selling peanuts or begging for money at the time of the explosion, said witnesses.

Cho, the daughter of Korean Air's chairman, achieved worldwide notoriety after she ordered the chief flight attendant off a December 5 flight, forcing it to return to the gate at John F Kennedy Airport in New York.

Obama is sending Congress a proposed three-page authorisation for military force.

"Five of the 10 babies were neonatal who were born only yesterday and the oldest among the children was a one and half year old child," an official of the Osmany Medical College and Hospital said.

"Attacks against girls accessing education persist and, alarmingly, appear in some countries to be occurring with increasingly regularity," the report said.

The campaign aims to push back the jihadi organization after it took large parts of Iraq and Syria and declared a "caliphate."

"A new brave era is beginning in India-China relations due to the wonderful synergy between Prime Minister Modi and President Xi Jinping," BJP leader Tarun Vijay said.