US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow for a two day official visit to Bangladesh.

Two lawsuits are filed in California claiming that Muslim women are discriminated against in separate incidents because of their religion and for wearing the hijab.

The first US cruise ship to travel to Cuba in half a century docked in Havana yesterday, marking a new milestone in the

The CIA has marked the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden by live-tweeting -- with a five-year delay -- the raid by US

Front-runner Donald Trump said on Sunday that he will have essentially sealed the Republican US presidential nomination if he

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump accuses China of "raping" the US, in renewed criticism of China's trade policy.

Donald Trump's path to victory in the Republican presidential nomination race, dismissed as inconceivable by many in the run up to the

Voters cast ballots in five northeastern states yesterday, with frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both looking to

US President Barack Obama made an impassioned plea for European unity in the face of rising populism and scepticism yesterday, warning this was a "defining moment" for the continent.

US President Barack Obama is accused of doing Downing Street's bidding - after he said the UK would be at "the back of the queue" for American trade deals if it left the EU.

Eight people are found dead at four crime scenes in rural Ohio of US, and most of them are shot to death, authorities say. No arrests had been announced, and it's unclear if the killer or killers are among the dead.

Prince, the innovative US music superstar whose hits included "Purple Rain" and "When Doves Cry" and whose songwriting and

US pop star Prince, 57, was found unresponsive at his Minnesota home and was later declared dead, US media reports say.

Ted Cruz nails down all 14 delegates up for grabs at the Republican Party convention in Wyoming.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders come to blows in a heated US presidential debate in Brooklyn, raising the stakes in their increasingly acrimonious race to clinch the Democratic nomination.

The United States has said the government of Bangladesh took 'limited measures' to investigate and prosecute cases of abuse and killing by security forces. The US, in its 2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, claimed authorities failed at times to maintain effective control over security forces.

Republican Donald Trump yesterday said the party's leaders did not want him to win the presidential nomination.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump lashed out at what he called the party's "rigged" delegate selection rules on Monday after rival Ted Cruz swept all of Colorado's 34 delegates over the weekend.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's fate rested yesterday on the loyalties of the last 100 or so congressional deputies yet to declare how they will vote in a looming impeachment showdown.

A US Navy officer with access to sensitive US intelligence faces espionage charges over accusations he passed state secrets, possibly to China and Taiwan, a US official told Reuters on Sunday.