The death toll from Nepal’s massive earthquake has surpassed 2,000 in the Himalayan country and neighboring nations as the rescue operations continue in the region. Nepalese national police spokesman Kamal Singh Ban said Sunday that the number of confirmed dead from quake had risen to 1,953 in the country. This is while officials in neighboring India said the toll from the tremor stood at 53 and... 

Illegal immigrants arriving from as far away as China pay up to $30,000 to be smuggled into the U.S. through Mexico, a Border Patrol agent has revealed, highlighting the fact that people from all over the world, not just Central America, are penetrating the southern border due to lackadaisical enforcement of immigration laws. Federal agents in South Texas apprehended two groups of Chinese illegal... 

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is hoping to recruit Muslims from across the globe with the aid of YouTube appeals from English-speaking jihadists. UK, Australian nationals are among the ISIS militants calling to support the insurgency in Iraq. Titled “There Is No Life Without Jihad,” the new propaganda clip uploaded to YouTube by ISIS’s AlHayat Media Center allegedly shows a line-up... 

Rohingya Muslims have been trying to flee the sectarian violence in Myanmar and cross into neighboring countries in wooden boats. The UN refugee agency says about 13,000 people, mostly Rohingya Muslims, fled Burma (also known as Myanmar) by boat last year, with hundreds dying during the sea voyage. “We know of at least 485 people who have drowned or are lost at sea,” Vivian Tan, spokeswoman... 

A tourist spot in Mozambique The World Bank has warned that due to global warming a number of coastal countries in the world such as Bangladesh and Mozambique are to disappear over the next century. According to the report prepared by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Climate Analytics, the World Bank warned climate change, which is causing global warming and sea level rise... 

Hena Begum was a fourteen year old girl growing up in the Shariatpur region of Bangladesh until her forty year old cousin decided to rape her. After she was raped, the rapist and his family then beat her until she was unconscious. Next, the local Sharia (Islamic) courts ruled that yound Hena should receive 101 lashes for the crime of adultery — for the crime of being a child raped by an adult. The... 

India and Russia have decided to work together in the field of nuclear commerce. The two countries will help set up smaller nuclear power plants in South Asian countries such as Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, sources said. This, according to South Block sources, is a key outcome of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to India. China is active in most South Asian countries, building infrastructure... 

A gang who kidnapped and tortured a schoolboy by burning him with a hot iron to gain a £20,000 ransom have been jailed for a total of 40 years it was confirmed today. The 16-year-old had boiling water poured over his legs during the five-hour ordeal in a bid to blackmail his family as part of a ‘drugs debt’. Shaheed Rahman and Syed Ahmed, both 24, admitted conspiring to kidnap the boy... 

Court drawing of Rajib Karim: The BA employee is accused of two counts of planning suicide bombings A would-be suicide bomber worked for British Airways and plotted to take advantage of cabin crew strikes to launch an attack, it was alleged yesterday. Rajib Karim, a trusted IT expert at the airline, planned to volunteer for crew training to help keep flights running during the threatened walkouts. He... 

Photo: An Asian slave woman lives in confinement while forced to do hard labor in Dubai. Saudi Arabia officially outlawed slavery in the 1960’s, however they still openly practice indentured servitude that international rights groups say is tantamount to slavery. Servants are brought in from countries like Bangladesh to do hard labor while living in squalid conditions. Women are also lured to Saudi...