May2018

Bangladesh and India have signed four memoranda of understanding (MoUs) to expand defence cooperation including purchase of equipments. One MoU is to provide a framework for using India’s $500 million loan under line of credit offered...

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) have detained four Bangladesh nationals near the border area, reports UNB. Three Bangladesh nationals were picked up by BSF from Paria border in Baliadangi upazila of Thakurgaon district early...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reiterated on Sunday that Tehran would remain committed to its 2015 nuclear deal if its interests can be protected and said the U.S. withdrawal from the accord was a “violation of morals”....

Gareth Bale scored twice to boost his chances of starting in the Champions League final as Real Madrid thrashed Celta Vigo in La Liga. Bale burst onto Luka Modric’s pass to smash home a low opener...

Jean-Luc Godard showed he is still the great disrupter on Saturday by turning a Cannes Film Festival news conference into what one critic called “a weird cinematic event”. The morning after the premiere of his abstract...

Israel’s Netta Barzilai won the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon on Saturday, bringing Israel its fourth victory in the glitzy pageant, watched by over 200 million people around the world, and the right to host the...

Germany’s Alexander Zverev won the battle of the young guns against Denis Shapovalov on Saturday to set up a Madrid Open final against Austria’s Dominic Thiem. The 21-year-old third seed was clinical as he trounced erratic...

President Donald Trump will address around 800 US and Israeli dignitaries at the ceremonial opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem by video on Monday, the US ambassador said. It was not immediately clear from Ambassador...

Ex-Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been banned from leaving the country, immigration officials say. It comes after Mr Najib said that he and his wife were planning to go on an overseas holiday on Saturday....

Jane Fonda, Salma Hayek and Marion Cotillard were among 82 women who made a symbolic walk up the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, in a demonstration of solidarity for women struggling for...