A secretive startup backed by Bill Gates has achieved a solar breakthrough aimed at saving the planet.

Emerging and developing economies are less well positioned to withstand a deeper global downturn, should it occur, than they were before the 2009 global recession, the World Bank says.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has sought more Turkish investment in Bangladesh’s various sectors as he attended the first day of the Bangladesh-Turkey Joint Economic Commission meeting in Ankara, an official release says.

Swedish prosecutors said yesterday they have dropped their investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over a 2010 rape allegation, even though they found the plaintiff’s claim “credible”.

Economic losses in Kashmir have run well over a billion dollars since India revoked its autonomy and statehood in August, the main trade body in the Himalayan region said, adding that it planned to sue the government for damages.

The United States has the world’s highest rate of children in detention, including more than 100,000 in immigration-related custody that violates international law, the author of a United Nations study said on Monday.

Israel’s air defences intercepted four rockets fired from neighbouring Syria yesterday, the army said, prompting reported retaliatory

Three security personnel have been killed by “rioters” in Iran, the latest deaths in protests that showed no sign of subsiding yesterday,

An avalanche on Monday hit an Indian patrol in the world’s highest militarised zone in the Himalayas, killing four soldiers and two

US called Sri Lanka’s new president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, on Monday to ensure human rights and accountability after a campaign in

Pakistan’s ailing ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday left by air ambulance for London, where he is due to receive medical

Britain’s Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn were set to go head-to-head yesterday in their first TV debate of the election

The Afghan Taliban released American and Australian university professors held hostage for more than three years yesterday, Afghan government officials said, completing a delayed prisoner swap and raising hopes for a revival of peace talks.

Four more witnesses were set to appear yesterday in the third public hearing of the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump including two - Alexander Vindman and Kurt Volker - who previously have offered contrasting testimony behind closed doors.

The Trump administration is set to harden the rules this week on those allowed to seek asylum in the United States, as it attempts to stem a wave of migration on its southern border with Mexico.

Two top national security aides who listened to President Donald Trump’s call with Ukraine are preparing to testify in the impeachment hearings, launching a week of back-to-back sessions as Americans hear from those closest to the White House.

The United States has granted another 90 days for companies to cease doing business with China's telecoms giant Huawei, saying the move would allow service providers to continue to offer coverage in rural areas.

The days of a global order led by the United States are over, regardless of whether President Donald Trump is re-elected next year, geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer says at a forum in Tokyo.

Gambia will open its case against Myanmar before the UN's top court in December accusing the mainly Buddhist state of genocide against its Rohingya Muslims, the tribunal says.

Three people are killed in a shooting outside a Walmart store in Oklahoma, including the assailant, police said -- the latest in a string of deadly gun attacks at the popular supermarket chain.