President Barack Obama on Monday urged Americans to address the root causes of recent racially-tinged unrest, focusing not just on police actions but improving opportunities for young black men.

To wage war in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is using F-15 fighter jets bought from Boeing. Pilots from the United Arab Emirates are flying Lockheed Martin's F-16 to bomb both Yemen and Syria. Soon, the Emirates are expected to complete a deal with General Atomics for a

Dozens of migrants drown in the Mediterranean after a boat sinks south of Italy's island of Sicily, the Save the Children aid group says.

The Conservatives and Labour launched their final push yesterday to woo voters ahead of this week's British general election, as potential kingmaker parties marked out their territory.

An employee of a tea garden and his mother were injured in an attack by criminals over land dispute in Banshkhali upazila of the district yesterday.

Baltimore lifted a curfew Sunday that was imposed across the US East Coast city following widespread riots, as thousands of National Guard troops began to pull out.

Prince William and his wife Kate have named their two-day-old baby Charlotte Elizabeth Diana and she will be known as Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, their Kensington Palace residence announced yesterday.

At least five more students of Geological Science department of Jahangirnagar University (JU) students, who are observing the fast-unto-death, have been hospitalised.

An identified criminal stabbed a Jubo Dal leader to death in Joypurhat Sadar upazila yesterday.

Nearly 3,700 migrants rescued in several operations in the Mediterranean Sea, Italian coastguard says

The ruling party in Bangladesh is using state mechanisms to curb the media, says a report published by London-based rights group Article 19.

Microbus riders abducted an office assistant of Shishu Academy in Babuganj upazila under the district from a road in broad daylight on Friday.

The Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to a girl, Kensington Palace has announces.

Police arrested an Indian national at Gohamabona village in Poba upazila on charge of entering Bangladesh on Wednesday.

French leader Francois Hollande yesterday vowed to "show no mercy" if peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic accused

Inevitably search engines such as Google will be allowed in public examinations, including GCSEs and A-Levels, the head of an exam board says.

The offices of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in eastern Ukraine is closed down by pro-Russian rebels who accused it of spying.

Around 300 families of Srikishnapur village in Akkelpur upazila of Joypurhat district earned prosperity by producing potato chips on commercial basis.

An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft ferrying supplies to the International Space Station is plunging back to Earth and apparently out of control, an official said yesterday.

The Election Working Group (EWG), a non-partisan network of 28 leading civil society organisations in Bangladesh, says the city corporation elections are not credible due to malpractices and irregularities.