Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed Tuesday to get to the truth about a blaze in his home city that killed 37 call centre

Around 150 skiers in the French Alps were rescued after being trapped for several hours when their ski lift broke down on Sunday.

The Venezuelan government has released fewer than half of the 80 jailed political opponents it promised to free over Christmas as a goodwill gesture, human rights observers said on Sunday.

Bahrain's top military court yesterday sentenced six men to death after convicting them of charges including plotting to assassinate the Gulf state's armed forces chief, state media reported.

An American family's holiday reunion ended in tragedy Sunday when their light plane crashed in Florida, killing all five people aboard, the local sheriff's office said.

An artist that could not be reached for more than a week after he painted a politically charged mural in southern China wrote on Twitter yesterday that he has been "released".

Twenty pilgrims from the same extended family were killed yesterday in a head-on bus collision while travelling to Christmas Day mass in the northern Philippines, police said.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged citizens not to fear the uncertainty of the country's months-long political stalemate, speaking in his traditional Christmas address.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will praise the "powerful identities" of London and Manchester in responding to terrorist attacks this year, during her annual Christmas message yesterday.

Three teachers of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet) have been suspended on charge of plagiarism in their research.

A suicide bomber killed six civilians in an attack near an Afghan intelligence agency compound in Kabul yesterday in the latest assault claimed by the Islamic State group in the capital.

Curtains will go up today on the sixth edition of the Bengal Classical Music Festival, hailed as the biggest classical music festival in the world, at the Abahani grounds in the capital's Dhanmondi.

The assistant primary teachers, who have been observing an indefinite hunger strike over upgrading their salary scale since Saturday, called off the programme yesterday following assurance of measures to meet their demand.

Pope Francis yesterday used his Christmas message to call for a negotiated two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after US President Donald Trump stoked regional tensions with his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Two people were killed in an explosion near a welding shop on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Jessore's Kismat Noapara area last night.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan landed in Khartoum on Sunday and met his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir at the start of a three-country African tour.

Hymns filled a church in Iraq's second city Mosul yesterday as worshippers celebrated Christmas for the first time in four years after the end of jihadist rule.

Up to 10,000 people stranded in refugee camps and detention centres in Libya could be relocated to Europe in 2018, the Italian government said yesterday.

The new US ambassador to the Netherlands apologized Saturday after denying he once said the country was in "chaos" because of

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed hope that Bangladesh Navy would gradually be turned into “builder Navy” from a “buyer Navy” as the government took various steps in this regard.