People from different walks of lives came down heavily on social media following the footage that showed a school-going girl being beaten by a boy in Habiganj Sadar.

So why is Isis blowing to pieces the greatest artefacts of ancient history in Syria and Iraq?

More than 13 million children are being denied an education by Middle East conflicts, the UN said yesterday, warning "the hopes of a generation" would be dashed if they cannot return to classrooms.

French judges investigating claims that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was murdered have closed the case without bringing any charges, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.

Saudi authorities put to death a convicted murderer yesterday, bringing to 130 the number of executions in the kingdom so far this year, according to an AFP

Surviving family members of Aylan Kurdi have revealed how the Syrian three-year-old came to be washed up dead on a beach in Turkey.

Harrowing pictures of a drowned Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach have sparked global outrage over the human cost of the escalating refugee crisis as Europe stood accused of letting the Mediterranean become a "cemetery" for migrants.

Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury declares Tangail-4 constituency vacant as sacked minister Abdul Latif Siddique tendered his resignation.

An official of National Credit and Commerce (NCC) Bank is arrested for misappropriating Tk 8.98 crore from the bank.

Gunmen kidnapped at least 18 Turkish employees of a company building a football stadium in Baghdad yesterday, officials said, but it was not immediately

More than 11,000 families in Iceland have offered to open their homes to Syrian refugees in a bid to raise the government's cap of just 50 asylum seekers a

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrest three persons for their alleged involvement with beating up three custom officials and snatching goods from Cargo village at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on August 10.

A local leader of Awami League was shot dead by unidentified assailants at Chandraganj area under Sadar upazila of the district

The mayor of a remote, Islamic State-held town in western Iraq said yesterday that some 200 residents have been detained by the group at an unknown

Libyan pro-government forces yesterday battled jihadists from the Islamic State group in second city Benghazi, where five pro-government fighters have been

The Taliban in Afghanistan yesterday admitted covering up longtime leader Mullah Omar's death for two years, saying they had wanted to keep it secret until foreign forces ended their fight against the militants.

The Afghan Taliban have confirmed covering up their former leader Mullah Omar's death for more than two years.

A special tribunal jailed two top brass of a textile company for four years in a case filed over capital market manipulation in 1996.

Australian Al-Jazeera reporter Peter Greste yesterday called for Egypt's president to pardon him and two colleagues handed prison sentences in a shock ruling that sparked international condemnation and which he described as "politically motivated".

The Islamic State jihadist group has executed more than 90 people, a third of them civilians, over the past month in areas of war-torn Syria under its control, a monitoring group said yesterday.