A Saudi diplomat accused of raping two Nepali women hired to work as domestic help has left India under diplomatic immunity, the foreign ministry says.

About 1,000 Asian pilgrims were evacuated early yesterday from their hotel in the Saudi city of Mecca, hit by a fire that injured two people, the civil defence agency said.

US President Barack Obama will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on November 9 -- their first meeting after a deep row over

Bombings in the Iraqi capital claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 14 people and wounded 55 yesterday, security and medical officials said. The

The by-election to Tangail-4 constituency will be held on November 10 instead of October 28.

Australian warplanes have carried out their first air strike against Islamic State group in Syria, destroying an armoured personnel carrier, Defence Minister Kevin Andrews said yesterday.

Police recovered the decomposed body of a woman, who went missing ten days ago, from a bush at Prodhanpara Shalmara village in Sadar

A Tehran court has fined two women $260 for violating the Islamic dress code by not wearing their mandatory hijabs (headscarves) properly in the street, a

Saudi King Salman has ordered one million Riyals (($267,000) compensation for those who were injured with permanent disability and half a million for other

The Supreme Court clears the way for the lower court to resume trial proceedings against former lawmakers Harun-or-Rashid and Mufti Shahidul Islam in separate corruption cases.

A one-year-old boy drowned in a pond at Mostafapur village in Dupchanchia upazila of the district on Monday. The deceased is Mostakin,

The local administration today imposed Section 144 at Dashuria Degree College in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna in a bid to avoid possible clashes between two factions of BNP ahead of its council.

Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound for a third straight day on Tuesday.

A college girl was raped by her classmate at eco park, near Bangabandhu Bridge in Sirajganj yesterday.

Five Saudi soldiers have died on the border with Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition said late on Sunday as forces inside Yemen began a major offensive against

At least 26 people including two children were killed yesterday in twin suicide car bomb attacks in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 13 civilians were killed in the two blasts, along with six members of the Kurdish security services and seven fighters from a pro-regime militia.

Teachers, students and employees of Shaheed Smriti High School in Sadar upazila of the district blocked Patuakhali-Barisal highway at

Members of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) arrested an alleged human trafficker in Charsubuddi area under Raipura upazila of the district yesterday.

Pakistan militants who have pledged allegiance to Islamic State yesterday said they had attacked a paramilitary checkpoint along the Afghan border, in the first

Iran has discovered an unexpectedly high reserve of uranium and will soon begin extracting the radioactive element at a new mine, the head of Iran's Atomic