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.

UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein yesterday accused the Czech Republic of committing systematic human rights violations by detaining refugees for up to 90 days and strip-searching them for money to pay for their own detention.

Although seven-year-old Sumon lives in a Patuakhali town shanty, to some extent he's lucky. The child has both

Locals block a road in Mirpur of Dhaka for two hours today demanding construction of a speed breaker following a road accident that killed a female student yesterday.

Two boats carrying 140 migrants, including children, land at the RAF base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, the Ministry of Defence says.

Canada's Liberals won a landslide general election victory Monday, with young leader Justin Trudeau ending a decade of Conservative rule with pledges to raise taxes on the rich in a struggling economy.

Canadians began voting in general elections yesterday, with polls showing Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party positioned to end nine years of Stephen Harper's Tory rule.

Big Ben's bongs may fall silent for months or even years as urgent repairs are carried out.

Thousands of migrants are stranded at borders in the Balkans, in cold and wet conditions, as their path to western Europe is blocked.

At least 40 students of Comilla Victoria Government College were injured in an attack by outsiders on Saturday night.

A garment worker drowned in a pond at Banashram village in Iswarganj upazila of the district yesterday afternoon. The deceased was

Croatia yesterday diverted the flow of thousands of migrants toward Slovenia after Hungary sealed its border to block the path of the streams of refugees desperate to reach northern Europe.

Hungary has closed its border with Croatia in an effort to stem the flow of migrants through the country en route to western Europe.

A court in West Bengal orders that Bangladeshi national Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the sensational murder case of seven persons in Narayanganj, be sent back home to face trial.

Students demanding retake of medical admission examinations end their hunger strike today following assurance that a probe committee will be formed to investigate the issue.