Fresh off of a relaxing vacation in the Hawaiian Islands, Rihanna was spotted arriving back on the mainland as she touched down in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday (January 22). Clad in a black strapless dress and sandals, the Barbadian beauty was all smiles as she exited the terminal at LAX Airport while loading into [...]

Bangladesh can establish a social safety net system for vulnerable groups and boost its economic growth by incorporating its informal sector workers into formal sectors, the labour minister has suggested. “If we can provide grassroots support for informal sector workers who are suffering from poverty and widening disparities, we can boost economic growth as their [...]

Down four match points and hobbling on her injured left ankle, defending champion Kim Clijsters somehow rallied for a dramatic 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-4 win over Li Na at the Australian Open on Sunday. Clijsters was in pain from the ankle she twisted in the seventh game. Li was just a bundle of nerves. The [...]

Politicians, academics and rights activists have termed ‘irresponsible’ the comments of local government, rural development and cooperatives minister Syed Ashraful Islam on the border killings by the Indian Border Security Force. It is the state’s constitutional obligation to protect its citizen and if the state says it is not worried about the killings of its [...]

European Union foreign ministers are expected to announce a phased ban on the purchase of oil from Iran at a meeting on Monday in Brussels. It would be the latest EU measure to be introduced in retaliation for Iran’s nuclear programme. The EU currently buys around 20% of Iran’s oil exports. Tehran denies that it [...]

The Arab League agreed on a path forward in Syria on Sunday that instructs President Bashar al-Assad to delegate powers to his vice president following the formation of a national unity government. The Syrian government roundly rejected the plan, which it views as “blatant intervention in its internal affairs,” Syria’s official SANA news agency reported [...]

A U.S. aircraft carrier sailed through the Strait of Hormuz and into the Gulf without incident on Sunday, a day after Iran backed away from an earlier threat to take action if an American carrier returned to the strategic waterway. The carrier USS Abraham Lincoln completed a “regular and routine” passage through the strait, a [...]