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.

Jamaican author Marlon James wins the Man Booker Prize for his novel inspired by the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the 1970s.

In the time when cargo boats were more plentiful; when they routinely set off from the grand seat of the Bengal Sultanate, in Gaur

Ex-national cricketer Shahadat Hossain is denied bail and sent to jail today after completion of a three-day remand over torturing an 11-year-old.

Japanese citizen Kunio Hoshi, who was shot dead in Rangpur on October 3, is buried at Munsipara graveyard.

International investigators conclude that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is shot down by a Russian-made BUK missile fired from rebel-held eastern Ukraine, a Dutch paper says.