At least 22 migrants - many of them children - drown trying to reach Kalymnos and Rhodes from Turkey, in the second major boat tragedy off Greek islands this week.

The by-election to the Moulvibazar-3 constituency will be held on December 8, the Election Commission announced today.

The world's oldest bible is among 200 objects tracing Egypt's religious evolution in an exhibition at London's British Museum that spans the 1,200 years since Cleopatra's death.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid today assured that the printing of textbooks would be completed on schedule and school students would get them by the start of next year.

Britain will keep its current level of 450 troops on non-combat missions in Afghanistan into 2016, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said in a written

The European Parliament has voted against a set of rules intended to safeguard "net neutrality" in the EU.

Europe's worst migration crisis since World War II risks triggering "tectonic changes", a top EU official warned yesterday, as figures showed more than 700,000 newcomers reached the continent's Mediterranean shores so far this year.

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed calls upon the diplomats of different countries residing in Bangladesh “not to overreact” on the matter of the killing of two foreign nationals.

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad says there is no room for any new registration ahead of the local government polls.

An alliance of Free Syrian Army-related groups in southern Syria said yesterday Russia must stop bombing rebels before they could talk about cooperating with it, saying they hadn't turned down an offer of support but Moscow must first halt its attacks.

Southeast European countries facing an unprecedented influx of migrants reacted cautiously yesterday to new EU plans to help stem the crisis, following an emergency mini-summit at the weekend.

A man suspected of ramming his car into the gates of a military barracks in the Belgian city of Namur yesterday morning was arrested after a short manhunt, a

Seven suspected Islamic State jihadists and two Turkish policemen were killed in a gun battle in the Kurdish-majority southeast yesterday, adding to tensions as the deeply divided country goes to the polls at the weekend.

Syria's ally Russia says there should be talks between the Syrian government and the "full spectrum" of opposition.

At least 42 pensioners on a day trip are killed after their bus collided with a truck and burst into flames in south-western France.

Sweden has reacted with shock to the killing of a teacher and pupil at a school in the west of the country, near Gothenburg, by a sword-wielding man.

A masked man wielding "knife-like weapons" walked from classroom to classroom to stab students as they opened the door, killing a teacher and a boy and wounding two others at a school in western Sweden before being shot dead by police yesterday.

The White House issued a scathing attack on Russia's "red carpet" welcome for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad yesterday, accusing Moscow of impeding progress towards a political transition by propping up the strongman.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will visit Pope Francis on November 14, the Vatican announced yesterday in the latest sign of relatively warm relations

A 15-year-old schoolboy has been detained by police in Turkey for allegedly "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, local media reports said yesterday.