Malaysia hopes to open negotiations with North Korea in the "next few days" to secure the release of its citizens trapped in Pyongyang

EU leaders yesterday sought to patch up deep divisions over the bloc's post-Brexit future, a day after an unseemly spat with Warsaw

President Maithripala Sirisena came to power in Sri Lanka promising justice for war crimes, breaking from his hawkish predecessor and

Czech President Milos Zeman, an ex-communist known for staunch anti-Muslim, pro-Russian and pro-Chinese views, announced

Thirty people have been arrested and charged in connection with a stolen credit card and identity theft ring in Queens, New York.

Researchers of Marinelife Alliance have set a satellite transmitter on the hard shell of a female green turtle to observe its migration route and habitat.

The UN yesterday accused Turkish security forces of committing serious abuses during operations against Kurdish militants in southeast

An alleged robber was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Kushtia's Khoksa upazila early yesterday.

The next generations will grow up on the footmark of Hefazat-e-Islami, a Qawmi madrassa-based organisation, if the communal

Several states said on Thursday they would move forward with legal challenges to a revised executive order signed by President

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye was fired yesterday as a court upheld her impeachment over a corruption scandal that has

Crocodile skin has emerged as a potential export item due to its high demand in some Asian and European countries. The country's first crocodile farm, Reptiles Farm Ltd, exported skins of 200 crocodiles to Japan and earned around $1,06,000 in December last year.

As part of its efforts to bring tobacco consumption to zero by 2040, the government has drafted a policy to inspire tobacco farmers to go for alternatives crops.

The persecution of Rohingyas by Myanmar forces amounts to “definite crimes against humanity”, Yanghee Lee, UN special rapporteur for

Bangladeshi businessman Salman F Rahman is among the world's richest people.

Coming down hard on those who bemoan the “lack of democracy” in the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said

An Ansar member was killed and a magistrate of a mobile court was injured in an attack by “drug dealers” during an anti-narcotic

A rare Himalayan mole was rescued from a village in Sreemangal upazila yesterday.

Nearly 50,000 years before the invention of penicillin, a young Neanderthal tormented by a dental abscess ate greenery containing a

Criticising the “role of Dr Muhammad Yunus” in the cancellation of World Bank's funding for the Padma Bridge project, Prime Minister