It’s quite an incredible feat to still have more than 600 species of birds in our country and with the increasing numbers of birdwatchers and wildlife photographers every year, many new species are being discovered or rediscovered.

Britain’s archly-eurosceptic UK Independence Party (UKIP) launched its European election campaign yesterday, claiming to be the “true

Around 500 Bangladeshis may have been stranded in two locations of Libya, about 200-kilometre off to the country’s capital, amid fighting between UN-backed Libyan government and Libyan National Army.

Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky appeared on track yesterday to become Ukraine’s next leader as incumbent Petro Poroshenko fought

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday hailed as “exemplary” hundreds of firefighters who saved Notre-Dame in the devastating blaze, as efforts intensified to ensure there was no further damage to the still fragile cathedral.

A Chapainawabganj court yesterday awarded five men with death penalty for raping and killing a girl in 2015.

An ethics court yesterday found Nigeria’s former chief justice guilty of corruption and banned him from office for 10 years in a case the opposition said was politically motivated.

The UN’s Libya envoy yesterday warned of “a widening conflagration” in the North African country, saying international divisions had encouraged strongman Khalifa Haftar to launch his assault on Tripoli.

A vast field of towering white poppies sways gently in the breeze, silky petals sometimes tumbling to the ground, a visible marker of the

A man was arrested Wednesday night after entering St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York carrying two cans of gasoline, lighter fluid and

China plans to launch an ambitious asteroid exploration mission and has invited collaborators to put their experiments on the probes, space agency officials said yesterday.

Five people were killed and more than a dozen others injured by a South Korean man who set his apartment on fire and stabbed his neighbours as they tried to flee the flames, police said yesterday.

Greece’s parliament yesterday began debate on a resolution to demand the payment of German war crime reparations, an issue long disputed by Berlin.

Nearly 300 people have been arrested in ongoing climate change protests in London that brought parts of the British capital to a standstill, police said Tuesday.

An upcoming conference between Afghan representatives and the Taliban appeared to be in trouble yesterday even before it begins, with the militants deriding Kabul’s plan to send 250 delegates -- several of whom have already dropped out.

Nusrat Jahan Rafi is a prime and tragic example of a girl, who spoke up against gender-based violence and met with even more violence, UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh Mia Seppo said yesterday.

The Mujibnagar Day was observed through different programmes yesterday, recalling significant memories of the first government of Bangladesh.

US President Donald Trump's administration has issued an order that could keep some asylum seekers in jail for months or years as they wait for their cases to be heard, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

A woman was strangled and then her body set on fire by her husband in the capital's South Mugda yesterday, police said

A Chinese health activist has been detained for more than a month, her husband said yesterday, after she participated in a protest over faulty vaccines -- a re-occurring issue in China.