Bangladesh executed 10 people last year.

China sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer to a three-year suspended sentence yesterday following a secret trial, raising

Tiffany Cartagena said she was eating with her mixed-race girlfriend at a restaurant in Ohio last month when she heard nearby diners

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday slammed Germany's foreign minister as "insensitive" over refusing to cancel

The party of French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen changed its interim leader for the second time in four days

At least five soldiers were killed and another 40 injured when a Boko Haram jihadist rammed an explosives-laden pick-up truck into a

The frequency of violent and deadly attacks against religious minorities, secular bloggers, intellectuals, and foreigners by domestic

Female clerics on Thursday issued an unprecedented fatwa against child marriage in Indonesia in a bid to stop young girls becoming

Estonia's police will soon carry teddy bears in their patrol cars to comfort children caught up accidents or distressing situations, the

South Africa's former finance minister Pravin Gordhan, who was dramatically fired by President Jacob Zuma, has warned that the ruling ANC party could lose power in the next election.

Human society can be cruel and unforgiving: a lesson for any adult. At the time of birth however, when newborn takes first breath in

A police probe has found 11 detectives involved in snatching money and valuables from a Kafrul club in the capital on April 18 and recommended punitive actions against them.

US President Donald Trump said a "major, major conflict" with North Korea was possible over its nuclear and ballistic missile

Chhatra League has expelled an activist and suspended 18 others from the organisation over factional clashes and acts of vandalism in two Dhaka University dormitories this month.

Bhutan has decided to stay out “for the time being” of a sub-regional road connectivity that would link the country with Bangladesh, India and Nepal.

Police arrested two alleged members of a gang of human traffickers in Narayanganj on Thursday.

Parents in Gaibandha's Harijan community often worried about their children's schooling. Due to the failure of mainstream primary schools to provide a congenial study environment, one that was free of discrimination and prejudice, Harijan children often found the

Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud yesterday claimed that the country's haor regions, especially in the northwest, were submerged due to heavy rains, not because of the damage to any embankment.

An office assistant of Shahzadpur upazila primary education office has been arrested after a retired schoolteacher filed a case accusing the former of assaulting him for refusing to pay a bribe.

The United States has pledged to step up sanctions to force North Korea to resume dialogue over its nuclear program, but said it was not looking to bring Kim Jong-Un's regime to its knees.