February2018

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”....

Post-release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Padmaavat’ despite their protests, Shri Rajput Karni Sena on Thursday announced that they will produce a film on the filmmaker’s mother, which will be named as ‘Leela ki Leela’. Addressing a...

Legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee was on Tuesday presented France’s highest civilian award, Legion d’Honneur at a function in India’s Kolkata. French Ambassador Alexandre Ziegler presented the medal to the versatile octogenarian, who has delved into...

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has joined Arsenal after the Gunners agreed terms with his former team Borussia Dortmund, both clubs confirmed Wednesday. The 28-year-old Gabon striker, who has scored 141 goals for Dortmund since joining in 2013, has...