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Fans mock as Eng dumped out of Europe twice in a week
England score an ignominious double on Monday, becoming the first country to be dumped out of Europe twice in a week and in the process losing both its prime minister and national soccer team manager.
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Hoop dreams of Cambodia's disabled cagers
Slamming into each other with a metallic crunch, Cambodia's first women's wheelchair basketball team are changing attitudes to disability in a nation where unexploded landmines claim new victims every week but physical impairments are scorned.
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A war, a life
A war is a battle fought by others, where deaths are only piling numbers and the critically injured- someone else’s problem.
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Syria hospital attacks ‘war crimes’
France and Turkey have said that air strikes on hospitals in northern Syria constitute war crimes.
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Khaleda’s war martyrs remark ‘contextually correct’: Fakhrul
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says his party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia’s remarks on the number of martyrs during the Liberation War of 1971 was ‘contextually correct’.
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'Saudis will not allow war with Iran'
Saudi Arabia's Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said a war between his country and Iran would be the beginning of a catastrophe and Riyadh would not allow it.
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Preserving war history
People have rarely heard of Saiful Islam a preserver of the nation’s history. He is a Philatelic dealer and collector of the Liberation war related items. He collects old newspapers, documents, stamps, books, photos, and philatelic items from waste papers piled up in one of the shanty parts of Old Dhaka.
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The Grand Theatre of War
World War I was once thought of as 'the War to End All Wars'. But the hypothesis that “violence can be extinguished with greater violence” has since been thoroughly disproved and should have no place in modern statecraft. Yet it is the bedrock of anti-terrorism.
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SCF condemns Pak statement on war criminals' executions
Sector Commanders Forum -Muktijuddho '71 has condemned Pakistan’s interference in the internal affairs of Bangladesh.
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Australia receives first five Syrian refugees
Five Syrians have become the first of 12,000 refugees to arrive in Australia under a one-off plan to resettle people fleeing the country's conflict.
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US states say no to Syrian refugees
More than a dozen US states say Syrian refugees are no longer welcome due to security fears after the Paris attacks.
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France retaliates, bombs Syria after Paris carnage
French warplanes pounds the Islamic State group's de facto capital in Syria on Sunday, in the first such strikes since a wave of coordinated attacks claimed by the jihadists left 129 people dead in Paris - signalling its resolve in fight against the group.
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5 including ex-JP MP sued for war crimes in Mymensingh
A case was filed today against five people including a former lawmaker of Jatiya Party for their alleged involvement in war crimes in Mymensingh district.
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Muslim pilgrims start hajj pilgrimage
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims from across the globe begin the annual hajj pilgrimage in one of the largest annual gatherings of people in the world.
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Ending Syria war ‘key to migrant crisis’
Ending the conflict in Syria and Iraq is key to solving the migrant crisis facing Europe, a senior US official tells the BBC.
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Migrant crisis: Influx will change Germany, says Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the "breathtaking" flow of migrants into Germany will "occupy and change" the country in the coming years.
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N Korea orders troops on war footing
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un orders his frontline troops to be on a war footing after an exchange of fire with the South across their heavily fortified border.
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40 migrants die in Mediterranean (video)
At least 40 migrants have died after apparently getting trapped and suffocating in the water-logged hold of a boat in the Mediterranean.
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Pak army releases pics to 'prove' Indian drone claim
Pakistan Army's media arm releases several photos and videos that purportedly show the drone was launched from the Indian side for a spying mission.
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Aftermath of the 1965 War
The Kashmiris have come to develop a different thinking. They do not want either India or Pakistan to be the arbiter. They themselves want to decide what is suited to their genius.
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Displaced people hits record 60m: UN
The number of people displaced by war, conflict and persecution reached a record level of nearly 60 million across the world in 2014, says a UN report.
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Indian army's importance diminished due to lack of wars: Parrikar
Army's importance has diminished because the country hasn't gone to battle in the past 40-50 years, say India’s defence minister Manohar Parrikar.
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The stalled war against Islamic militants
THE war against the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) is about to observe its first anniversary.
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ICC should prosecute Islamic State for Iraq genocide, war crimes: UN
The United Nations human rights office said on Thursday that Islamic State fighters may have committed genocide against the minority Yazidi community in Iraq as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes against civilians including children.
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Palestinian shot dead by Israeli troops
Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the military and a Palestinian hospital
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US at war with those perverting Islam: Obama
President Barack Obama says US 'not at war with Islam - we are at war with people who have perverted Islam
