U2 frontman Bono, a leading campaigner for Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi when she was under house arrest, has called on her

Aid workers completed a series of medical evacuations from a besieged rebel enclave near Damascus yesterday as part of a

Philippine police have killed two people, including a woman on her way to hospital, after mistaking them for gunmen, authorities said

Uganda has charged 45 Rwandans with terrorism following their arrest at the border with Tanzania earlier this month, a police

Turkish authorities yesterday rounded up 75 people in Istanbul and Ankara suspected of links to the Islamic State extremist group,

US President Donald Trump Thursday said he believes the probe into Russian meddling in the US election "makes the country look very

In a bid to curb corruption in school admissions, the Anti-Corruption Commission has asked information related to admission from

A Japanese researcher has developed -- by accident-- a new type of glass that can be repaired simply by pressing it back together

At least 14 people were killed when a huge blaze tore through a popular restaurant in Mumbai early yesterday, police said, in the

Dense fog brought misery to thousands of travellers, causing major disruption to flights, ferry services and road transport across the country yesterday.

The sixth edition of the Bengal Classical Music Festival reached its high point on its fourth day, with some of the biggest names of this year's bill performing on the night and the crowd numbers swelling to capacity.

India has mobilised around 60,000 police and paramilitary troops in Assam ahead of the publication of a list of citizens it says will be used to detect and deport “illegal immigrants -- mainly Muslims -- from neighbouring Bangladesh”.

A man was killed and two others were injured in a gas cylinder blast at a PRAN-RFL workshop in Gazipur's Kaliganj last night.

Two minor siblings were killed in an elephant attack in the district's Ukhia upazila early yesterday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said Moscow had made the key contribution to defeating the Islamic State group in Syria, adding its military campaign also boosted morale in the armed forces.

China will donate ballot boxes and voting booths for Cambodia's 2018 election, an official said yesterday, weeks after Western democracies pulled their support in protest over a crackdown on opposition politicians.

Japanese prosecutors reportedly charged a North Korean fishing boat captain for theft yesterday, accusing him of making off with items ranging from home appliances to solar panels.

The deaths of two sun bears and a tapir in Malaysia yesterday sparked fresh alarm among activists at the growing number of exotic animals perishing in the biodiverse country.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed hope for a better relationship with Germany and the EU after a fractious 2017, saying Ankara needs to reduce its enemies and increase its friends, in an interview published yesterday.

A high-level team formed to investigate the two Bangladesh Air Force trainer aircraft crashes on Wednesday visited Moheshkhali Upazila in Cox's Bazar yesterday, ISPR sources said.