A six-year-old girl was allegedly violated and a mother of two was allegedly gang-raped in Jashore and Feni on Tuesday night.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo appeared set for a second term as "quick count" results from yesterday's election rolled in, but his challenger claimed that he had won the popular vote and urged supporters not to let his victory be snatched away.

The adolescent (15-19 years) birth rate in Bangladesh is still high as approximately 750,000 adolescent girls are giving birth annually, according to a new UN report.

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.

Taiwan has not been intimidated by China's military drills this week, President Tsai Ing-wen said yesterday, after the latest Chinese manoeuvres were denounced by a senior US official as "coercion" and a threat to regional stability.

Expressing concern over the rape and repression of women across the country, the High Court yesterday observed that the moral degradation reached such a situation that these kinds of incidents are taking place repeatedly.

A Moscow court yesterday convicted a retired Norwegian border guard who was charged with spying on Russian nuclear submarines and sentenced him to 14 years in prison.

Chinese authorities have seized 7.5 tonnes of ivory -- 2,748 elephant tusks -- in one of the biggest busts in recent years as the country cracks down on the sale of illegal wildlife products.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday termed ‘baseless’ different media reports on their chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release on parole saying that there has been no decision yet in this regard.

An entire three-storey building was blown apart yesterday as Pakistani security forces detonated a huge amount of explosives hidden inside, after a bloody, hours-long gun battle with militants holed up in a crowded city.

The historic Mujibnagar Day is being observed today marking the formation of Bangladesh's first government that led the Liberation War in 1971.

A staggering 59 percent of the marriages that took place in Bangladesh between 2006 and 2017 involved brides below the age of 18, says a UN study.

Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, one for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces, and another for photographs of Central American migrants seeking refuge in the United States.

Awami League candidate Ekramul Haque Titu is set to be elected uncontested in the maiden Mymensingh City Corporation (MCC) election as his only rival quit the race yesterday.

The fire that tore through Notre-Dame cathedral was probably caused by accident, French prosecutors said yesterday after firefighters doused the last flames in the ruins overnight and the nation grieved for the destruction of one of its symbols.

Although Rajuk officials had no engineering plan to knock down the much-talked about BGMEA building on the capital's Begunbari canal, they went to the site yesterday heavily equipped with demolition machinery.