Egypt's prime minister and his cabinet resigned yesterday following a corruption scandal and President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi tasked the

This year's hajj pilgrimage will go ahead despite a crane collapse which killed more than 100 people at the Grand Mosque of Mecca, a Saudi official tells AFP.

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha urges the lawyers to cooperate with the judges to adjudicate the cases quickly and to reduce their backlog.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas yesterday praised the countries which sided with "justice" by voting for the Palestinians to be allowed to raise their flag at United Nations headquarters.

There is a growing belief within the US government that the Islamic State militant group is making and using crude chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria, a US official has told the BBC.

A massive construction crane crashes into Mecca's Grand Mosque in stormy weather Friday, killing 87 people and injuring 184, Saudi authorities say, less than a fortnight before the hajj pilgrimage starts.

The organisers of Lebanon's "You Stink" mass protests over piles of festering trash in the streets yesterday criticised the government's

At least 30 people have died in clashes in the Turkish city of Cizre since a military operation began there last week, Turkey's interior ministry said yesterday. The ministry said most of the dead were Kurdish militants but the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said 20 civilians were killed in the violence.

Dozens of Syrian government troops and Islamic State fighters have been killed in fighting around a government-held air base in eastern Syria in a region that is a stronghold for the jihadists, a monitoring group said on Thursday,

A mobile court sentenced three drug peddlers to different jail terms in Badarganj upazila of the district yesterday afternoon. The convicts

A Dhaka court places 13 Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists including two former lawmakers on a three-day remand in a case filed over bomb recovery.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque says none can intercept sacrificial animal-laden trucks in the name of verifying necessary papers without any specific information.

High Court rejects a writ petition that challenged legality of the constitutional provision that recognises Islam as the state religion.

Law enforcers arrested six youths while they were trying to extort Tk 1 lakh from a local contractor in Nilphamari Sadar upazila on Friday night.

Law enforcers arrested a union parishad (UP) chairman and seized arms, ammunition and illegal drugs from his possession at Niyogbari village in Kazipur upazila of Sirajganj district on Friday.

A battle between Islamic State group jihadists and rebels for control of an opposition stronghold in northern Syria has killed at least 47

The UAE bombarded Yemeni rebels with air strikes yesterday as it mourned 45 of its soldiers among dozens killed in the deadliest day yet

Five personalities have been accorded with the Abul Mansur Ahmad Award and another receives special honorary memorial for his research work on this eminent litterateur, journalist and politician of the sub-continent.

Saudi Arabia says it is happy with President Obama's assurances that the recent nuclear deal with Iran will not imperil the Gulf states.

Twenty-two members of the United Arab Emirates' military were killed while taking part in Saudi-led operations in Yemen against Shiite rebels.