The high point of 24-year-old Md Amzad Hossain's life was the day he was accepted to study Bangla at Dhaka University. “When the

The UN Security Council yesterday unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea following its latest intercontinental ballistic missile test, a move that analysts said could have a significant impact on the isolated country's struggling economy.

Key powerbrokers were scrambling yesterday over plans to speed up a political settlement in Syria, with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura joining a second day of talks after negotiations in Moscow.

Police on Wednesday night arrested five youths for allegedly beating up two college girls with iron rods in Sakhipur upazila of Tangail.

The United States blacklisted a rogues gallery of alleged rights abusers and corrupt officials yesterday, as a new global sanctions law went into effect.

Hundreds of thousands of South Asian women migrant workers in the Middle East have signed employment contracts that they do not understand or do not adequately protect them against discrimination and abuse, says a new report.

Acclaimed Bengali singer Jatileswar Mukhopadhyay died yesterday at a Kolkata hospital following prolonged illness.

An American woman has given birth to a healthy baby girl from an embryo that was frozen a quarter century ago, in what hospital officials say may be a world record.

Biva Rani, 60, lives in her brother's tin-shed house in Upendranath Mandal near Torki Bandar of Barisal's Gournadi upazila. She works odd jobs, as a tailor, a weaver, a midwife sometimes, in order to look after herself and her disabled son Sagor.

Unlike usual stories of animals nearing extinction, the forests of Moulvibazar brought forth an entirely different tale a couple of years ago.

North Korea yesterday denied US accusations it was behind the WannaCry global ransomware cyberattack, saying Washington was demonising it.

The stalker, who fatally stabbed a schoolgirl inside her home in Sunamganj on Saturday, was arrested early yesterday in Sylhet.

India will provide Myanmar with $25 million for development projects including prefabricated houses in troubled Rakhine state to enable the return of Rohingya Muslims who have fled the area, the foreign ministry said yesterday.

The number of suspected cholera cases in war-torn Yemen has reached one million, the International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday.

South Korea's top court kept a Korean Air heiress out of prison yesterday in the final verdict on the "nut rage" incident that triggered national uproar in 2014.

Venezuela's foreign minister blamed the US for his country's spiralling debt crisis yesterday, saying Washington's "permanent attack" had left the economy crippled.

Adults who ate more than two tomatoes a day had a slower rate of natural lung function decline, with ex-smokers seeming to benefit most of all, scientists said yesterday.

Hundreds of detainees in Iraq are feared to have been "forcibly disappeared" by Kurdish authorities after they were arrested for suspected ties to the Islamic State group, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

Nasa on Wednesday announced two finalists for billion-dollar robotic missions -- one to explore a comet and another Saturn's moon Titan -- with a launch by the winner planned in the 2020s.

Turkish police confiscated thousands of historical artifacts in a giant operation against smugglers in Istanbul, the private Dogan news agency reported yesterday.