The woman whose sexual assault allegation threatens to bring down President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee has agreed to testify in the Senate, her lawyers said Saturday, setting up a dramatic showdown next week.

President Donald Trump is weighing an executive order that would open federal antitrust and criminal probes into Google, Facebook and other social media firms, US media said Saturday, though the White House promptly distanced itself from the reports.

Female foreign ministers meeting for the first summit of its kind vowed Saturday to bring a "women's perspective" to foreign policy.

The Russian military yesterday said "misleading" information from the Israeli airforce caused the downing of a Russian plane in Syria, and denounced the "adventurism" of Israeli pilots.

A gang of pirates took hostage 12 crew members of a Swiss cargo ship they attacked in Nigerian waters on Saturday, the vessel's operator has said.

A gang of pirates took hostage 12 crew members of a Swiss cargo ship they attacked in Nigerian waters on Saturday, the vessel's operator has said.

Sixteen people, including 12 civilians, were killed in a rebel attack on Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo's restive east, witnesses told AFP yesterday.

US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein denied Friday a report that he had suggested looking for ways to remove Donald Trump on grounds of mental fitness, just months after the president took office.

Six Bangladeshis were wounded when Indian Border Security Force (BSF) fired rubber bullets on them at Madla frontier in Brahmanbaria's Kasba upazila on Friday evening.

Two activists of United People's Democratic Front (UPDF), a Chittagong Hill Tracts-based political organisation, were killed in a “gunfight” between two rival groups at Ramsuparipara in the district's Naniarchar upazila early Friday.

It has been a question plaguing the museum dedicated to one of America's greatest presidents: Is the hat real?

Two schoolgirls and a housewife have been raped in separate incidents in Pabna on Thursday, police said.

The Committee to Protect Journalists in a letter to the Bangladesh president expressed deep concern over the Digital Security Act passed on Tuesday by parliament, and urged him to return it for a review.

A union parishad chairman was shot dead, while his assistant suffered bullet wounds, in Kafra Bazar area of Barishal's Uzirpur upazila, on Friday night.

India's decision to cancel rare talks with Islamabad was disappointing and "arrogant", Imran Khan said yesterday, one day after New

Two people, including a suspected drug trader, were killed in separate “shootouts” in Jashore and Bandarban districts early yesterday.

Malaysian immigration police detained 338 foreigners, including 55 Bangladeshis, while raiding a factory in Cyberjaya, said Mustafar Ali, director general of Malaysian Immigration Department.

A tornado sparked chaos near the Canadian capital Ottawa on Friday, injuring dozens as homes were damaged, cars flipped over, and over 130,000 people left without power, local media said.

The UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Friday aimed at toughening the UN response to peacekeeper misconduct following a string of failures by the blue helmets to protect civilians.

A cholera outbreak in north-eastern Nigeria has claimed nearly 100 lives over the past two weeks, the United Nations said yesterday.