February2018

Ms. Priya Naree Cooper, a nine-time gold medalist disabled swimmer and recipient of the Order of Australia Medal, visited the capital’s Karail slum area at January 29 to engage with the youths of BRAC’s Adolescent Development...

Twenty-eight Russian athletes have had their Olympic doping bans overturned and their results from the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi reinstated after their appeals were upheld by sport’s highest tribunal on Thursday. The Court of Arbitration...

Japanese video games maker Nintendo Co Ltd said on Thursday it would team with U.S. film studio Illumination Entertainment to produce an animation film using its Super Mario Bros characters. The film would be distributed by...

Stand-in captain Mahmudulllah Riyad joined the 2,000 runs club in Test during the second day of the first Test of the two match Test series against Sri Lanka at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium here on Thursday....

Michael Haneke, the Austrian director of such unsparing thrillers as “The Piano Teacher” and “Funny Games”, is to make his first television series. The producers of the hit German series “Deutschland 83” about a sleeper Stasi...

Just five days after the conclusion of the Australian Open, tennis shifts its attention to the Davis Cup this weekend. France are the defending champions and start their campaign at home to the Netherlands while the...

A U.S. special envoy said on Thursday all options remain on the table for solving the nuclear standoff with North Korea but that he did not think the military option was close. Joseph Yun, speaking to...

A Turkish prosecutor issued detention warrants for 120 suspects from the military, the state-run Anadolu agency said on Thursday, the latest in a long-running government crackdown launched after a failed coup attempt in 2016. Police began...

Cuba handed a note of protest to the top U.S. diplomat in Havana on Wednesday over the Trump administration’s creation of a Cuba Internet Task Force that it said was an attempt to violate its sovereignty...

The head of a Philippine online news site battling revocation of its license for violation of ownership conditions on Thursday said law enforcers should drop a complaint of cyber libel against her, describing it as “baseless”....