Three men set up a fence and a ribbon of yellow and black crime scene tape around a site south of Iraq's Mosul, marking a

Elections in the country have been mired by rising trend of violence with turnout of voters and participation of candidates

Humans used ceramic pots to cook wild plants more than 10,000 years ago, well before the advent of agriculture, researchers

Japan has scrapped plans to generate electricity at a multi-billion dollar experimental nuclear reactor, the government said

A plane carrying Russian soldiers crashed in Siberia yesterday, seriously injuring 16, the defence ministry said, quoted by

A Rohingya man who entered Bangladesh from Myanmar with bullet injuries died yesterday in the unregistered Leda Rohingya

Jordanian police said yesterday they found suicide belts and other explosives in the hideout of suspected Islamic State group

Even though their chances of success are slim, many Democrats were looking at the Electoral College vote yesterday as the last

At least 57 journalists have been killed around the world in 2016 while doing their job, Reporters Without Borders said

The country needs 44 more years to have an initial level of literacy skills for all citizens and 78 years to attain the advanced

A French court yesterday found IMF head Christine Lagarde guilty of negligence over a massive state payout to a tycoon when

Every day, as Bangladeshi supervisor Bikas Nath scrambles in and out of vessel holds at the shipyard where he works, all he

Jatiya Party yesterday extended its support to Awami League nominee Selina Hayat Ivy for mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation.

The cabinet yesterday approved the draft of revised and integrated drug policy, first of its kind in Bangladesh, to make sure

Supporters of former and current union parishad chairmen in Nilokkha union, who had locked in a clash that left four people killed a month ago, fought each other again in Narsingdi's Raipura yesterday.

Libya's unity government leader Fayez al-Sarraj on Saturday officially announced the end of military operations in Sirte, after the liberation from Islamic State group forces of what was the last significant territory they held in the country.

Japan has begun slaughtering about 210,000 farm birds in northern Hokkaido to contain another outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian flu, an official said yesterday.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's admission that he used a powerful painkiller has prompted concern about his health, with lawmakers urging him Sunday to undergo a medical examination and disclose the results.

Egypt's state prosecutor has ordered that the remains of victims from the crash of EgyptAir flight 804 from Paris to Cairo be handed over to relatives, his office said Saturday.

The evacuations expected Sunday of fighters and civilians from east Aleppo and two Shia villages under rebel siege in northwestern Syria have been postponed until further notice, a monitor said.