Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's government threw its support in parliament this week behind an Islamic penal code that includes amputations and stoning, shocking some of his allies and stoking fears of further strains in the multi-ethnic country.

The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) is deliberating on its proposed ‘model’ women’s protection bill, which allows a husband to ‘lightly’ beat his wife 'if needed' and prohibits mixing of the genders in schools, hospitals and offices.

Six Bangladeshi workers detained in Singapore last month are charged with financing terrorism. Their goal was to set up an Islamic State in Bangladesh and bring it under the self-declared caliphate of the IS in Iraq and Syria.

More than three months have passed since $81 million was stolen in a brazen cyber-heist from Bangladesh's central bank and sent to Manila - yet authorities in the Philippines appear no closer to nabbing those who laundered most of the money through a bank and casinos.

India launches an unmanned model space shuttle into orbit, joining the race for re-useable spacecraft.

“When the tide came in, these kids started swimming. But not like I had seen before. They were more underwater than above water, they had their eyes wide open – they were like little dolphins.”

The New Horizons space probe is bringing new images of a remnant of the early solar system, after its historic brush with Pluto last summer, reports ABC News.

Mitsubishi Motors announces its president, Tetsuro Aikawa, will step down in the wake of the company's test-fixing scandal.

Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte yesterday vowed to introduce executions by hanging as part of a ruthless law-and-

Andre Brahic, one of the people who discovered the rings of Neptune, has died aged 73, his publisher says.

NASA researchers have detected atomic oxygen in Mars' atmosphere for the first time in 40 years, thanks to the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) which soars on a plane 13.7 kilometres (45,000 feet) above Earth, reports Science Alert.

Maverick anti-crime candidate Rodrigo ‘Digong’ Duterte wins the Philippine presidential elections, following the withdrawal of his opponents.

Anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte was yesterday heading for a huge win in the Philippine presidential elections, according to a poll monitor, after an incendiary campaign dominated by his profanity-laced threats to kill criminals.

A transit of Mercury over the disc of the Sun will take place this afternoon and be visible from Bangladesh.

Radicalised worker Rahman Mizanur recruited countrymen in Singapore with help of material linked to terror groups.

Abu Sayyaf of the Philippines has releases a video of Canadian hostage John Ridsdell being beheaded by their militants. The harrowing 52-second video shows four militants and Ridsdell in jungle surroundings.

The authority of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) installed LED lights in 1.25 kilometre of the city streets, stretching from Kazir Dewry intersection to Tigerpass intersection.

Wishes poured in from the global leaders in celebration of the 80th birthday of Brac Founder and Chairman Sir Fazle Hasan Abed on April 27.

BNP yesterday said the government's move to amend the Press Council Act was aimed at limiting media freedom.

Owners of Bakusha Hawkers Market in Nilkhet has started evicting its tenants from Monday, allegedly without giving proper time to shift shops, leaving over 1,200 shopkeepers in huge trouble.