Police recovered body of an unidentified young man from an abandoned house near Jessore-Satkhira highway in

War criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury will file petitions with the Supreme Court tomorrow seeking review of their death penalty.

Five people, including two RAF personnel, have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

BNP alleges that the government has decided to hold the local body polls under party banner in December and January only to avoid the demand of national polls.

A four-year-old boy in the Chinese city of Chongqing has died after becoming wedged under an escalator handrail at a subway station.

Around 2,000 protesters at Hong Kong University marched yesterday to support academic freedom as fears grow that Beijing is interfering

North Korea yesterday released and deported a South Korean man studying at New York University who was arrested back in April for

Hong Kong's former leader Donald Tsang, who ended his term in disgrace after accepting favours from tycoons, appeared in court yesterday charged with misconduct in the latest high-profile corruption case to hit the city.

Students seeking retake of the MBBS and BDS admission tests withdraw their six-hour sit-in at Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka for today.

Two people are killed in a shooting outside New South Wales state police headquarters in western Sydney, Australian police say.

Fierce fighting is continuing between Afghan forces and the Taliban in parts of Afghanistan's northern city of Kunduz, despite government claims that it had regained control of the city.

A series of package bombs exploded yesterday in the southwest China city of Liuzhou, killing at least seven people and injuring 51, state media said.

Afghan troops backed by US air support launched a counter-offensive yesterday to retake Kunduz, a day after Taliban insurgents overran

Thailand's junta is facing growing opposition over plans to introduce a single Internet gateway for the country to make it easier to

The Taliban seized control of half of a major Afghan city yesterday, witnesses said, the first time they have done so since being ousted

China's president yesterday called for less "suspicion" in ties between the world's top two economies, ahead of landmark talks later this week with US President Barack Obama.

Japanese public support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dropped in the days since his ruling coalition rammed through legislation

BNP accuses the government of controlling the media through a “secret policy” to gag the journalists critical of the authorities.

Japan's parliament yesterday voted into law a defence policy shift that could let troops fight overseas for the first time since 1945, a

Swelling crowds gathered outside Japan's parliament yesterday as lawmakers looked close to passing security bills that could see Japanese troops fight abroad for the first time in 70 years.