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Bangladeshi Girl With Three Legs ‘walks, Runs’ After Australia Surgery

A toddler born with three legs -- because body parts of a twin had grown inside her -- was returning home to Bangladesh...

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Bangladesh Islamists Blow Themselves Up, Ending Standoff

Four suspected Islamist fighters blew themselves up at a hideout in Bangladesh, ending a 24-hour standoff, police said...

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Bangladesh To Build Hundreds of Mosques With Saudi Cash

Bangladesh has approved a project to build hundreds of mosques with almost $1 billion from Saudi Arabia, an official...

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Islamic Romance Novels Set Hearts Aflutter In Bangladesh

Kasem bin Abubakar was told nobody would buy his chaste romance novels about devout young Muslims finding love within...

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Pakistan Drops Kamran From Champions Trophy Squad

Pakistan's selectors Tuesday dropped opener Kamran Akmal from the 15-man squad for the Champions Trophy to be held in...

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Ivanka Forced To Defend Trump At Women’s Summit

Ivanka Trump, making her overseas debut as the US "First Daughter" at a women's summit in Berlin on Tuesday, was forced...

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India Plans To Tag Millions of Cows To Curb Smuggling

India could issue millions of cows with unique identification numbers, the latest effort to protect the sacred animals...

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Bangladeshi Workers Mark Four Years Since Factory Collapse

Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers staged a tearful demonstration Monday to mark the anniversary of a factory...

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Quantum Genius M.anifest Takes Over Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana

“I think a lot about excellence and originality. I also focus on honesty, integrity and fearlessness in music. That...

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World Records Exceptional Progress With NTDs

Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organisation(WHO), has launched a new report, which indicates...

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Retiring Duo Misbah, Khan Lead Pakistan Against West Indies

West Indies and Pakistan get a three-Test series underway on Friday at Sabina Park in Jamaica with both teams...

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Facebook Disrupts Suspected Spam Operation

Facebook on Friday said it disrupted an international fake account operation that was firing off inauthentic 'likes'...

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Facebook Disrupts Suspected Spam Operation

Facebook on Friday said it disrupted an international fake account operation that was firing off inauthentic "likes"...

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Bangladesh Buries Islamist Extremists After Hanging

Bangladeshi villagers buried the leader of a banned Islamist extremist outfit and two of his aides early Thursday,...

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Bangladesh Hangs Three Islamist Extremists For UK Envoy Attack

Bangladesh hanged three Islamist extremists including the leader of a banned militant outfit on Wednesday, after they...

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Bangladesh PM Backs Islamists Over Statue Controversy

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been accused of "kowtowing" to hardline Islamists after expressing dislike...

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Hope, Mohammed Drag Windies To 233 In Decider

Contrasting half-centuries by Shai Hope and Jason Mohammed lifted the West Indies to 233 for nine against Pakistan in...

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Myanmar Begins Shuttering Three Rakhine Camps

Myanmar has started shutting down three displacement camps in strife-torn Rakhine state, a senior official said...

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UN Pushes Myanmar To Release Detained Rohingya Children

The UN children's agency UNICEF has called on Myanmar's government to release Rohingya children detained as part of a...