Two kids drowned in a pond at Pachua village in Gafargoan upazila yesterday noon. The deceased are Mustakin Rahman Rahat, 7, son of

Bureaucracy at Kathmandu airport was holding up vital relief supplies for survivors of the earthquake in Nepal on Saturday as the death toll from the disaster passed 6,600. UN Resident Representative Jamie McGoldrick said the government must loosen customs restrictions to deal with the increasing flow of relief material and avoid bottlenecks.

US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday said that democracy was in danger in the Maldives as police made nearly 200 arrests at a

When a devastating quake hit Nepal last week, a nine-year-old girl worshipped as a living goddess was preparing to receive devotees

Muslim girl rejects her groom at a government-sponsored mass wedding in Madhya Pradesh because she overheard him using foul language and misbehaving with people.

She was described admiringly by Vladimir Lenin's wife as the “primeval force of the Black Earth”, a revolutionary firebrand with sparkling

US-led air strikes targeting the Islamic State group killed at least 52 civilians in a village in northern Syria, a monitoring group said

Prince William's wife Kate yesterday gave birth to a baby girl to cheers from a crowd outside the hospital as Britain celebrated the royal

Numerous protesters were arrested for defying a curfew in Baltimore Friday night, hours after six police were charged over the death

Nigeria troops have freed some 700 women and children from Boko Haram's Sambisa forest stronghold over the past week. In the latest

An Afghan delegation left for Qatar yesterday where they will hold two days of "open discussion" with Taliban representatives aimed at

The UN Security Council failed to back a Russian appeal for an immediate ceasefire or humanitarian pauses in war-torn Yemen, where

Crime writer Ruth Rendell has dies aged 85

Air strikes by the US-led coalition targeting Islamic State militants kills more than 50 civilians in northern Syria.

The Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to a girl, Kensington Palace has announces.

"Yangyang," a humanoid robot with a variety of realistic expressions wows visitors at Beijing's Global Mobile Internet Conference.

Nepal's authorities rules out the possibility of finding more survivors of last Saturday's earthquake, as the death toll has risen to 6,621.

By inexpensively turning salt water into drinking water using sustainable solar power, a team from MIT in the US has not only come up with a portable desalination system for use anywhere in the world that needs it, but it’s just won the 2015 Desal Prize - a competition run by USAID to encourage better solutions to water shortages in developing countries, reports sciencealert.com.

Another 234 women and children have been rescued from Boko Haram militants in Nigeria, the military announces.

Lawyer for six Baltimore police officers says they "did nothing wrong", after criminal charges were announced against them in the case of Freddie Gray who died in police custody.