It's been many years since private solar systems made inroads into coastal villages. Char Biswas in Patuakhali's Galachipa upazila, an

The death toll from a tropical storm in the southern Philippines rose to 182 early today, with 153 people still missing, police said, after rescuers pulled dozens of bodies from a swollen river.

A student of class-VIII was allegedly gang-raped at Naldanga in Sadullapur upazila on Friday night.

A man was missing after he jumped into the Baleshwar river from a trawler in Indurkani of Pirojpur yesterday to get away from youths who were assaulting him and his friend.

More than two years after an earthquake flattened the Nepali village of Richet, most residents are still living in makeshift shelters. Only the church has been rebuilt -- paid for by Christian missionaries whose influence in the mainly Hindu country is growing.

Bangladesh was 89th in the recently published Global Food Security Index-2017.

The US jury in the explosive Iran sanctions-busting trial of a Turkish banker paused Friday for the Christmas holiday without reaching a verdict and will resume deliberations on January 3.

A court in India yesterday convicted senior Indian opposition politician Lalu Prasad Yadav in a corruption case. He was promptly sent to a high-security jail.

A California wildfire that firefighters have battled for over two weeks is now the state's largest since at least 1932, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Friday.

A tea vendor was killed as two gunmen opened fire at a member of a rival gang in TB clinic area of Jessore town yesterday noon, police said.

A bomb exploded early yesterday outside one of Greece's main courthouses, causing material damage but no injuries, with police

The UN refugee agency yesterday accused Australia of abandoning hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea's

Five Pakistani activists who made international headlines when they went missing earlier this year were cleared of blasphemy charges

Some human rights advocates say press freedom is under attack in Myanmar, even though decades of rule by a junta that tightly

Two alleged robbers were killed in "gunfights" with police in Kushtia and Sylhet in the last two days.

The officer-in-charge of Karnaphuli Police Station allegedly refused to record a case against suspects of raping four women.

Two brothers were killed and 20 others injured in a clash over harvesting paddy from a disputed piece of land in Morrelganj upazila of

He is still too young to talk, but a two-year-old Indian boy has become a modern-day Mowgli and a subject of local intrigue after

With their leaders in exile or jail, Catalan separatists yesterday scrambled to reap the benefits of defeating Spain's central government

Two Palestinians were killed as youths clashed with Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border yesterday in a new protest against US