Finance Minister AMA Muhith says the US travel alert for its citizens in Bangladesh will not hamper the country’s economy.

In the past year, a staggering 800,000 Americans came out on Facebook regarding their sexual orientation.

President Barack Obama confirms plans to extend the US military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2016, in a shift in policy.

Iran's parliament approves a historic nuclear deal with world powers on Tuesday, effectively ending debate among lawmakers over the agreement and paving the way for its formal implementation.

A Florida man suspected of leading deputies on a high speed chase in Manatee County, allegedly tells authorities that his dog was the one behind the wheel.

Playboy magazine is to stop publishing images of naked women as part of its redesign.

Chinese police arrests hackers after the US government supplied them with a list of cybercrime suspects.

Russia's air force hit 60 Islamic State targets in Syria over the past 24 hours and killed around 300 militants, the Defense Ministry says.

Two people dies after two separate university shootings in Texas and Arizona, just hours apart.

Corals worldwide are at risk from a major episode of bleaching which turns reefs white, scientists have confirmed.

Sergio Aguero will adopt the No. 10 shirt for Argentina while it is left vacant due to the injury of its usual wearer, Lionel Messi.

Which is more important, living in the moment or capturing it in your smartphone?

An 11-year-old boy in the US state of Tennessee is held on suspicion of shooting dead an eight-year-old neighbour in a row over a puppy.

President Barack Obama says the US has launched a "full investigation" into air strikes that killed 19 people at an MSF-run Afghan hospital.

Five days into the killing of an Italian citizen in Dhaka, a Japanese national is gunned down in northern district of Rangpur. Five persons detained for interrogation.

30 people are dead and several hundred missing a day after a landslide smashed through a village on the outskirts of the Guatemalan capital, officials say.

World economic growth lost momentum in September, with China's factory output shrinking again, euro zone manufacturing growth slowing, and US activity steady.

Russia appears to have begun carrying out air strikes in Syria against opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, a US defence official says.

Fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden opens an account on the social network website Twitter.

A woman in the US state of Georgia is executed despite a number of last-ditch appeals, including one by the Pope, to try and block her execution.