Editor of Pakistan’s leading daily Dawn Zaffar Abbas has been awarded the 2019 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) for “extraordinary and sustained achievement in the cause of press freedom”, the body announced on Tuesday.

A senior French cabinet minister and close ally of President Emmanuel Macron resigned on Tuesday after reports accused him of extravagant state-funded lobster dinners and misusing public housing in a blow to the centrist government.

Firefighters have located the bodies of two men in the rubble of a partially collapsed two-storey building in the capital’s Patuatuli area last night.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s heir apparent yesterday joined her cabinet as defence minister, a high-profile job often called a poisoned chalice in Berlin’s fraught political landscape.

Children are fighting on both sides of Yemen’s five-year-old war, a human rights group said Tuesday as it urged Western powers to end arms sales to countries involved in the conflict.

For the last five years, girls have been doing better in terms of pass rate in the HSC exams than boys, but the boys have been getting more GPA-5s.

Rising anger at the increasing inequality blamed on globalization calls for a change of directions, acting IMF chief David Lipton said Tuesday.

Democratic congresswomen targeted in a xenophobic tirade by President Donald Trump hit back Monday, saying he was trying to distract attention away from his policies with his “blatantly racist attack.”

Pakistan yesterday fully reopened its airspace for all civilian traffic, ending months of restrictions affecting major international routes including from India after clashes between the nuclear-armed rivals brought them to the brink of war.

Ershad was laid to rest at his hometown in Rangpur yesterday following a fourth funeral prayer.

The railway built a temporary gate yesterday at the level crossing of Sirajganj where 11 people of a bridal party were killed in a train-microbus crash the day before.

The High Court yesterday wanted to know about the actions taken against the officials of Anti-Corruption Commission and banks responsible for wrongly implicating jute mill worker Jaha Alam in corruption cases.

One in every six person in Bangladesh is undernourished and does not have access to sufficient food, according to a new UN report.

Iran’s judiciary yesterday confirmed the arrest of French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, after the French foreign ministry said she had been detained and denied contact with consular staff.

The Pacific’s low-lying reef islands are likely to change shape in response to climate change, rather than simply sinking beneath rising seas and becoming uninhabitable as previously assumed, new research has found.

A 16-year-old prosecution witness yesterday identified two accused in the Holey Artisan attack case before a Dhaka tribunal.

Ajmat Ali, who spent the last decade in jail despite being given a presidential amnesty in 1991, was released from jail yesterday.

Drug-related deaths in Scotland rose 27 percent last year to a record 1,187, the highest rate in Europe, official data showed yesterday.

President Donald Trump is considering removing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross after the administration failed to add a question on citizenship to next year’s census, NBC news reported Monday.

Mexico on Monday rejected new asylum restrictions sought by US President Donald Trump to stem the flow of undocumented migrants trying to cross the neighbours’ shared border.