A secret CIA assessment has found that Russia sought to tip last month's US presidential election in Donald Trump's favor, The Washington Post reported Friday, a conclusion that drew an extraordinary rebuke from the president-elect's camp.

A cross-party group of 70 British parliamentarians have urged the UK government to “intensify pressure” on the Myanmar government to allow full humanitarian access to Rohingya Muslims in the North Rakhine State of Myanmar.

Girls being married off before reaching adulthood, too many teenage pregnancies and subsequent births of babies with low

Five days into her delivery of the second child, she went back to hospital with swollen eyes and severe injuries inflicted on her by her husband for dowry.

Malaysian employers are paying undocumented Bangladeshi workers wages much lower than the average, taking advantage of lack of legal protection for migrant workers, says a Malaysian migrant rights activist.

India yesterday said it was working out the schedule of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's tour to New Delhi.

The madrasa student, who went missing from Barisal and texted his mother not to worry about him, was working at a restaurant in the capital's Dayaganj.

China's president Xi Jinping has called for the Communist Party to exert greater ideological control over universities, state media reported yesterday, amid a broad crackdown on academic freedom and dissent in the world's second-largest economy.

Bangladesh labour activists said yesterday they had joined a lawsuit in Switzerland against world soccer body Fifa for allegedly failing to use its influence to ensure people working on 2022 World Cup facilities in Qatar are treated fairly.

The other village women of Panjonkhara in Gorapara union of Manikganj sadar upazila are taking a keen interest in the activities of fifty-year-old Selina Begum. Selina has carved out a financially better future for herself through rearing goats.

A Saudi soldier was killed in a landmine blast near the kingdom's border with Yemen, the interior ministry said yesterday.

Half of Sri Lanka's public procurement contracts are tainted by bribery and corruption, President Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday, nearly two years after he came to power promising to tackle government graft.

Populist anti-Islam Dutch MP Geert Wilders was yesterday found guilty of discrimination against Moroccans, but acquitted of hate speech in a closely-watched trial ahead of next year's key election.

Japan's parliament ratified the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free-trade deal yesterday, but it was largely viewed as an empty gesture owing to opposition by US President-elect Donald Trump.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo yesterday pledged to help the people of Aceh rebuild as he toured areas worst-hit by a devastating earthquake that killed more than 100 people and left thousands homeless.

Claiming that he has no misunderstanding with party-nominated mayor candidate in Narayanganj city polls Selina Hayat Ivy, Awami League lawmaker Shamim Osman yesterday said he would even resign from parliament to campaign for her if instructed by the party chief.

Police are yet to arrest Dewan Atiqur Rahman Akhi, a prime suspect in the October 30 attacks on Hindus in Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar.

Bangladeshi female domestic workers in the Middle East get one of the lowest wages, and are more exposed to exploitation, Human Rights Watch said in a statement yesterday.

South Korean lawmakers yesterday voted to impeach President Park Geun-Hye, stripping away her sweeping executive powers over a corruption scandal and opening a new period of national uncertainty.

After more than a month, the Bangladesh Premier League will end today with one of two teams -- Dhaka Dynamites and Rajshahi Kings -- holding aloft the trophy at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur tonight, expectedly under a sky lit up by a fireworks display.