Having lifted back-to-back AFC U-14 Women's Regional Championship titles, Bangladesh now have the ambition of qualifying

From the dizzying gymnastics heights of African-American Simone Biles to Indian wrestler Sakshi Malik and Brazilian golden girl Rafaela Silva in judo -- Rio proves a groundbreaking Games for women.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) called up 22 players for the Bangladesh women's cricket team's preliminary camp for the tour of Ireland. The camp kicks off today at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.

United States keep their quest for a fourth straight women's football gold on track when captain Carli Lloyd ensures a 1-0 victory over France to qualify for the quarterfinals.

The 2016 US Open, the fourth and final Grand Slam of the year, will dish out a record $46.3 million in prize money, including $3.5 million for the men's and women's singles champions.

Defending champions Spain kick off their Euro 2016 against the Czech Republic on Monday, bidding for a third straight European crown, under a sex scandal cloud.

Manchester United and Spain goalkeeper David De Gea on Friday dismisses as "a lie" claims that he organised a party at which women were forced to have sex with footballers.

Two days after her stunning loss to Garbine Muguruza in the French Open final, Serena Williams scores a different win when Forbes Magazine reported she has overtaken Maria Sharapova as the world's highest-paid sportswoman.

The Australian Women's national football team were humbled 7-0 by a group of under-16 boys representing the Newcastle Jets on Wednesday.

Bangladesh women's national kabaddi team captain Shahnaz Parvin Maleka and her teammate Shila Akter have recently been suspended for three years from taking part in any competition organised by the Bangladesh Kabaddi Federation (BKF).

Long-serving England women's captain Charlotte Edwards announced her retirement on Wednesday after a sparkling and pioneering 20-year career.

As many as 23,000 children might be saved a year in Bangladesh if women do not give birth before the age of 20, said a Unicef official, expressing concern over a high level of child marriage in the country.

At least fifty people including women and children fall sick after having Panta-Ilish at a Bangla New Year celebration programme organised by the Kachua Upazila Parishad in Bagerhat.

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says that women are not safe in the country now due to frequent violence against them.

Although Bangladesh women suffer a 36-run defeat at the hands of England during the 4th match of ICC Women’s World T20 2016 at Bangalore today, they managed to score the highest total in 28 T20Is by reaching 117 for six in the lost cause.

Dave Richardson, the ICC Chief Executive, makes it clear at a promotional event in Mumbai that the Spidercam would be used in the upcoming World Twenty20 in India.

The causes of heart attacks and the warning symptoms that can signal the need for immediate medical attention are different in women than in men, according to a scientific statement issued today by the American Heart Association.

Women who carry an inherited fault in the BRIP1 gene are three times more likely to develop ovarian cancer than those without it, researchers say.

It is one of the greatest ironies that the two major parties of the country, both of which are headed by women, should be so apathetic...

Emphasising that women must create their own fate and personal destiny, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said women can do all outside works maintaining decency as the religion Islam gives them that liberty.