Winnie the Pooh is one of the best-known characters in children's literature, and the inspiration is in fact a female bear from Winnipeg in Canada.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the November 30 opening of a UN summit in Paris tasked with producing a climate rescue

Croatians voted in a general election yesterday with conservatives aspiring to return to power as the EU nation faces a wave of migrants

One of Europe's biggest private stately homes is due to be sold to a Hong Kong based investment company.

Russia orders the suspension of all flights to Egypt following indications that the crash near Sharm el-Sheikh was caused by a bomb.

A Syrian boy whose disappearance from a hospital in Belgrade while on the European refugee trail sparked a huge social media campaign is reunited with his parents in Germany.

A court here on Tuesday sent eight local Jamaat-Shibir men to jail, rejecting their bail prayers in cases for vandalising and torching different polling centres in Nashratpur union under Chirirbandar upazila of the district during the January 5 national elections.

Four days into the murder of publisher Dipan, his father Prof Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq says he feels insecure as he had felt during the nine months of Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War.

Just over 20 percent of the aspirants have passed the admission tests of Dhaka University ‘Ka’ unit, under science faculty, in results published today.

A devastating fire gutted properties worth around Tk 30 lakh at village Futanir Bazar in Saghata upazila of the district yesterday. The fire

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) temporarily labels the street name in front of Bangladesh Embassy in Paris after slain Bangladeshi-American secular activist and blogger Avijit Roy marking the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.

Tomorrow’s Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations will begin at 2:00pm instead of 10:00am due to a half-day hartal called by Gonojagoron Mancha.

The bodies of 144 of those killed in Saturday's air crash in Egypt are flown back to the Russian city of St Petersburg as an investigation into the cause continues.

Britain's government gave the first details yesterday of contested plans to update Internet spying laws to keep pace with the digital age.

Work has begun to construct Britain's first new permanent military base in the Middle East since 1971. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond

At least 13 migrants, six of them children, drowned as two boats making the hazardous crossing from Turkey capsized in the Aegean Sea

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Friday the nation's main parties have reached an agreement to defend national unity as an

Romania was plunged into mourning yesterday after 27 people were killed and nearly 200 injured when a fire ripped through an

Germany on Friday said that asylum seekers would only be able to enter the country at five points along its border with Austria to

Turkish politicians yesterday held their final campaign rallies for a vote many fear is unlikely to bring an end to months of instability as the country confronts bloody jihadist attacks and a renewed Kurdish conflict.