Four suspected Islamist extremists surrendered Sunday after a night-long standoff with Bangladeshi police in which they detonated explosives and opened fire outside the capital Dhaka, an official...
A cafe in Dhaka named after Donald Trump has been luring Bangladeshis undeterred by his controversial politics and more interested in snapping selfies with a life-size cutout of the US president. The...
Three people, including two teenage boys, were killed by an explosion in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state on Saturday, a police officer said. Police were investigating if the mine had been laid...
Ships carrying personnel for China’s first overseas military base have set sail to begin setting up the facility in Djibouti, as the country’s rapidly modernising military extends its global...
A business-as-usual approach to climate change will be "disastrous" for Asia, undoing much of the phenomenal economic growth that has helped it make vast inroads against poverty, the Asian...
At least 200 environmental campaigners and protectors -- 40 percent from indigenous tribes -- were murdered around the world in 2016, the deadliest year on record, the watchdog organisation Global...
Cricket Australia chairman David Peever Thursday went on the attack over suggestions he is running an "extreme" industrial relations agenda, slamming the players' union for "reckless" tactics in a...
Eleven migrant labourers died of asphyxiation in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in a fire that engulfed the windowless house they shared, Saudi authorities said. "Firefighters put out a blaze in an old...
24-year-old Jahed Choudhury and 19-year-old Sean Rogan have become the first ever gay Muslim couple in UK’s history. The couple tied the knot in a civil ceremony at Walsall registry office. Jahed...
A gay man from the West Midlands has become the first Muslim to wed in a same-sex marriage. Jahed Choudhury, 24, grew up feeling ostracised by the Muslim community because he was gay and was even...
Bangladesh's Tamim Iqbal rejected rumours Wednesday that he quit English county cricket club Essex because of a hate crime targeting his family and said it was down to personal reasons. The...
India's new coach Ravi Shastri is expected to look for a good working relationship with captain Virat Kohli after a bitter feud saw his predecessor's tenure in charge of the world's top Test side cut...
Bangladesh's cricket board vowed tough action Tuesday against any players accused of misconduct or bringing the game into disrepute amid a slew of high-profile scandals involving top stars. The...
Bangladesh opening batsman Tamim Iqbal has left English county Essex after just one match for personal reasons, the club revealed on Tuesday. The 28-year-old -- Bangladesh's highest international run...
Bangladesh police have arrested a man suspected of murdering two Rohingya leaders in the country's southeast where tens of thousands from the group are living in camps after fleeing persecution in...
Nearly half a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in squalid Bangladeshi camps face staying "for some more time", the UN high commissioner for refugees said Monday. Filippo Grandi, the...
India began holding naval exercises with the United States and Japan off its south coast on Monday, seeking to forge closer military ties to counter growing Chinese influence in the region. The...
A jealous husband is facing life in prison after chopping off his wife’s fingers because she began studying for a degree without his permission. Rafiqul Islam, 30, blindfolded his wife Hawa Akhter,...
Off-spinner Sikandar Raza claimed three wickets to help Zimbabwe restrict Sri Lanka to 203 for eight in the fifth and deciding one-day international on Monday. Put into bat, Sri Lanka suffered from a...
Australian captain Steve Smith said Sunday players would not back down in their bitter pay dispute with Cricket Australia. Days after the players boycotted an Australia A tour to South Africa, Smith...
