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.

President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Theresa May spoke for the first time since a row over his retweets of a British extremist group, addressing vexing questions about Brexit and Middle East peace Tuesday.

opposition stronghold in the Democratic Republic of Congo, human rights activists charged yesterday, calling the killings "crimes against humanity".

Schools were closed for a fourth straight day in Tehran yesterday as dangerous air pollution covered the Iranian capital and traffic restrictions failed to clear the thick smog.

An American man who escaped Bali's notorious Kerobokan jail before being recaptured claimed yesterday he broke out of the facility because he faced extortion threats.

Police recovered the bodies of a mother and her two children from their house in Bhularkandi village of Moulvibazar's Barlekha upazila on Tuesday night.

Catalonia headed into a 24-hour campaigning blackout yesterday on the eve of a knife-edge vote, a potential turning point in the Spanish region's hotly disputed independence crisis.

Expressing concern over the ongoing pollution in Dhaleswari River because of dumping of tannery waste, green activists yesterday said

Amid widespread criticism over the leak of question papers of even primary level students, a parliamentary standing committee yesterday blamed it all on the upazila level teachers' associations.

President Donald Trump threatened yesterday to cut funding to countries that vote against the United States on a motion at the United Nations condemning Washington's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Flight operations at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) were suspended for nine hours from 12:15am yesterday due to dense fog, resulting in the delay of at least 30 international and domestic flights.

India and Myanmar yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding for socioeconomic development in Myanmar's restive Rakhine province and building prefabricated houses there to facilitate return of refugees from Bangladesh.

Firefighters and locals have pulled a cow free from quicksand on the bank of Padma river yesterday.

A cafe in London is taking barista art to a new level by giving customers the chance to sip on their own self-portraits.

The Kremlin yesterday dismissed UN accusations of human rights "violations" and "discrimination", in particular against the Crimean Tatar population on the peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

Having been born and brought up in Lalmatia, the community there has been one that I grew to love over the past 24 years.

The prosecution yesterday sought life imprisonment for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and five other accused in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.

Nirapada Das and his three brothers -- Haridhan, Krishnapada and Binay -- used to fish all day and return to their loving home in Chittagong city's North Kattali.

President Donald Trump used the launch of his first National Security Strategy on Monday to laud the benefits of

Golam Mostofa Ahmed, lawmaker of ruling Awami League from Gaibandha-1, yesterday succumbed to the injuries