Egypt has created a "national council" to combat the rise of Islamist "terrorism" which has targeted its security forces and Coptic Christian minority, in a presidential decree issued on Wednesday.

Sitting in her Karachi home, Jamshed Jahan Ara looks straight into the camera as she explains in a trembling voice how her family fled India during Partition in 1947.

Britain's Prince William will retire from the air ambulance service yesterday, after two years in which he witnessed "appalling tragedies", in order to turn his full attention to royal duties.

Myanmar health authorities have asked the UN's health agency for help to combat a deadly outbreak of swine flu that has sparked alarm in the commercial capital.

British Council yesterday unveiled a memorial on its premises in the capital in honour of eight Bangladeshi police guards who died protecting it in 1971.

A primary school in Hossainpur upazila of Kishoreganj district has been devoured by the Old Brahmaputra river along with 70 other homesteads this year, leaving students and families in jeopardy.

Observing that everybody is indirectly involved in graft, Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday stressed the need for applying modern technologies to check graft in the country as technologies create a lot of scope for preventing the social menace.

Police found the bodies of an elderly couple, tied to a sack of bricks, at the bottom of a drainage well beside the septic tank at their house at Rasulpur village in Tangail Sadar upazila, yesterday noon.

Bangladesh would be able to reap the full benefits of demographic dividend when it equips the large young population with technical education and skill, panellists said at an international conference yesterday.

Titumir college student Siddiqur Rahman, whose eyes were damaged in “police action” during a demonstration at Shahbagh on July 20, was taken to India for better treatment yesterday.

Technology that allows alteration of genes in a human embryo has been used for the first time in the United States, according to Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland, which carried out the research.

In politics, there are no permanent friends but only permanent interests. This adage proved true once again as Nitish Kumar yesterday

The EU warned Poland on Wednesday it would suspend its voting rights if it pushes ahead with controversial court reforms, sparking a furious reaction from Warsaw.

A Malaysian lawmaker came under fire Wednesday for saying that women who deny their husbands sex were subjecting them to "psychological and emotional abuse".

A tense standoff was underway between Israel and Muslim worshippers at a Jerusalem holy site yesterday despite the removal of metal detectors, with concerns of major unrest later this week if a resolution is not found.

A vicious combination of war, cholera and hunger has left 80 percent of Yemeni children in desperate need of aid, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

Describing the Election Commission as an independent body, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said it has been working independently in every field.

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday claimed to have arrested three suspected militants during a drive in the city's Badda area.

Mentioning that the country's many cities and district towns experience water-logging even after a moderate rain due to the grabbing

In the latest reshuffle in the police administration, the home ministry today transferred and promoted 19 senior officials holding ranks from deputy inspector general to deputy superintendent of police.