At least 11 people were killed and 219 injured in Saudi Arabia yesterday when a fire broke out at a residential complex in the eastern city of Khobar housing

Saudi women for the first time began to register as candidates yesterday for municipal polls in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom where they face a host of restrictions, including a driving ban.

An air strike by warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition killed 36 civilians working at a bottling plant in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah yesterday, residents said.

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.

Tens of thousands of protesters from across Lebanon flocked to a mass rally yesterday in downtown Beirut against a political class

Three people have been arrested in Libya on suspicion of involvement in launching a boat packed with migrants.

A 30-kilometre long tailback was created on both sides of Dhaka-Sylhet highway following suspension of vehicular movement due to repair work of a bridge in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria this morning.

A housewife was killed allegedly by her drug addict husband at Uttarbaddi village in Begumganj upazila of the district on Wednesday.

Aman plants on about 15,000 bighas of land have been damaged by flood water at 120 affected villages in five upazilas of the district.

Ruling Awami League-backed panel bagged the Bangladesh Bar Council elections in a landslide victory over BNP-Jamaat panel.

Police yesterday arrested seven people at Mundumala in Tanore upazila for allegedly torturing an indigenous woman to death.

A youth was electrocuted in Birampur upazila of the district yesterday. The dead is Mizanur Rahman, son of Mahmud Hasan of Bhaduria

The charge framing in the case under the Explosive Substances Act, linked to former finance minister SAMS Kibria murder case, has been

A court in Chittagong placed three lawyers, who were arrested over funding an Islamist outfit, on a fresh remand in Chittagong on February 21.

Bangladesh Coastguard rescued two deer and seized 140 kilograms of venison from Badurtali area in Patharghata upazila of Barguna

Police foiled a child marriage bid at Battajar village in Bakshiganj upazila of the district on Friday. The 13-year-old schoolgirl, daughter of

As many as 7,776 helpless women of 72 unions in the district are going to get jobs of their choice through the joint funds of the

A deputy leader of Islamic State (IS), Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, has been killed in a US military strike in northern Iraq, the White House says.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday announced he would call snap elections likely to be held on November 1, after coalition