Beyond air raids, gun battles and port blockades, food is now a "weapon of war" in Yemen, the UN's World Food Programme said yesterday, as millions face impending famine.

Turkish police yesterday rounded up dozens of Islamic State suspects including Syrian nationals in a security sweep on the country's national day holiday, local media reported.

A year of official mourning for Thailand's late King Bhumibol Adulyadej was to end yesterday after a lavish five-day funeral full of pageantry and religious ritual.

A parliamentary body yesterday suggested that the government ensure exemplary punishment of the killers of Aziza, who was burnt to death "for stealing a mobile phone" in Narsingdi's Shibpur.

The job of an upazila nirabhi officer at the remotest haors of Kishoreganj is not for the faint of heart.

There is finally some hope at the end of the tour. Apart from the hope and expectation of home comforts, Bangladesh seem to have been

A female student of Nawabeki College in Shyamnagar of Satkhira district died by suicide after falling victim to a gang of stalkers.

A man died of his injuries yesterday morning, hours after he was hacked allegedly by a Rohingya man over suspicion of an extramarital affair with the latter's distant relative in Ramu of Cox's Bazar.

A teenage girl succumbed to serious burns yesterday morning, hours after she was set afire on flimsy grounds that she stole a mobile phone.

The prevailing teenage gang culture in the city has claimed another life.

Catalonia's secessionist leader Carles Puigdemont yesterday stood defiant against Madrid's moves to depose him, urging "democratic resistance" to direct rule imposed in a bid to stop the region breaking away from Spain.

Rajshahi University authorities are yet to identify the persons responsible for the widely criticisedMCQsin Wednesday's admission test

Police recovered 4,500 yaba tablets from a private car on Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway in Chittagong's Lohagara upazila yesterday.

Egyptian security forces killed 13 militants during a raid on a farm hideout in the western desert region yesterday, a week after a

British Prime Minister Theresa May is concerned by a newspaper report describing a culture of sexual harassment among lawmakers

Pakistan's opposition Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by former cricket hero Imran Khan, swept to a comfortable by-election victory

A man accused of being a member of a banned far-right British group appeared in court yesterday, charged with encouraging an

Indonesian police yesterday started questioning the owner of a fireworks factory destroyed in a series of explosions and a fire that

The ashes and bones of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej were returned to the palace yesterday as part of an elaborate, five-day

China urged the United States yesterday not to allow Taiwan's president to travel through US territory en route to the island's