The governor of Nigeria's Yobe state told residents of the village of Dapchi in person on Thursday that 76 of their schoolgirls who

Months after being routed from the southern Philippine city of Marawi, jihadists are waging a fresh and deadly bid to set up a

Police have charged journalist Shafik Rehman and four others with plotting to kidnap and kill prime minister's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.

An Indonesian woman charged with murdering the North Korean leader's half-brother visited Cambodia to take part in what she believed were pranks for a TV show with suspected Pyongyang agents, a court heard yesterday.

The Nigerian military has rescued 76 schoolgirls and recovered the bodies of two others, after the students went missing during a Boko Haram attack on a village, three parents, a resident and a local government official told Reuters.

Water: the stuff of life. A reliable supply of fresh drinking water is one of the most fundamental requirements of any human society. In south-western Bangladesh high salinity in drinking water is a widespread and catastrophic problem that adversely affects human health.

A teacher at a private nursing school was arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a student in Lalmonirhat's Aditmari upazila yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday asked the High Court to hear and settle the rule in six weeks regarding the confinement of two Marma sisters, one of whom was allegedly raped and another assaulted by security forces last month.

US President Donald Trump suggested arming teachers to deter mass shootings as he faced broken voices, tears and demands for action at a meeting with survivors of the gun rampage that killed 17 people at a Florida high school.

After suspending the Food-Friendly Programme due to dwindling food reserves last year, the government is now resuming the scheme to give rice to 2.5 crore ultra-poor people at Tk 10 a kg.

Cool morning air brushed against my face as I looked at the plains where countrymen were out on their fields--plowing, irrigating, or

Singapore will criminalise skipping bail following the attempted escape of a man convicted in a high-profile fraud case at a megachurch, a senior government official said yesterday.

Cuban President Raul Castro Tuesday received a bipartisan delegation of US lawmakers, who are visiting the island with the alleged "acoustic attacks" against US diplomats on their agenda.

Iranian emergency teams yesterday began recovering the bodies of the dead from a plane that crashed high in the Zagros mountains with 66 people on board, officials said.

India's federal police have arrested six people, including employees of a billionaire jeweller, as an inquiry into one of the country's biggest bank scams widens, investigators said yesterday.

Hong Kong's best-known independence activist yesterday went on trial on riot charges over protests in 2016 which saw the city's worst violence for decades.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied allegations by a former receptionist that he had kissed her without her consent in an elevator lobby of Trump Tower, calling the story "another false accusation."

A mobile court yesterday fined 26 business houses Tk 8,600 in the district town for not hoisting the national flag on the occasion of the International Mother Language Day.

Artificial intelligence could be deployed by dictators, criminals and terrorists to manipulate elections and use drones in terrorist attacks, more than two dozen experts said yesterday as they sounded the alarm over misuse of the technology.

India yesterday said it was "deeply dismayed" by the extension of Emergency in neighbouring Maldives by 30 days.