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Malaysia’s disgraced ex-leader Najib Razak pleaded not guilty to all charges against him as he went on trial Wednesday over a multi-billion-dollar fraud, almost a year after his shock election loss. The 65-year-old faced the first...

Five European countries that sit on the UN Security Council on Tuesday rejected US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize the Golan as Israeli territory and voiced concern the move could have broad consequences. Belgium, Britain,...

Team Bangladesh has secured 16 gold 6 silver and 3 bronze medals till date in the Special Olympic World Games 2019 now being held in Abu Dhabi, United Aram Emirates. Bangladesh sent a 139-person contingent for...

Bangladesh’s cricket board head said Friday its players will now only travel with proper security assurances, after the national team narrowly escaped the New Zealand mosque attacks that left at least 49 dead, reports BSS. The...

Bangladesh’s High Commission to Australia so far confirmed three expatriates’ death in New Zealand’s Christchurch shooting at two mosques leaving 49 dead but feared attack to have critically wounded several other Bangladeshis. “Among the casualties (about...

Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday after 49 people were killed and dozens wounded in mass shootings at two New Zealand mosques. Tarrant, handcuffed and wearing a...

Over 100 schools in Malaysia have been closed after the dumping of toxic waste into a river caused hundreds of people to fall ill, including many children, authorities said. A lorry is believed to have dumped...

After China, India joined a list of countries that banned flying of the controversial Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft in its airspace. The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), a civil aviation watchdog, made the decision...

Floods caused by torrential rain in and around Brazil’s financial hub Sao Paulo killed 12 people and hurt six others overnight, firefighters said Monday. In the town of Ribeirão Pires on the periphery of the country’s...

China on Monday ordered domestic airlines to suspend the commercial operation of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, citing the Ethiopian Airlines crash and another deadly accident of that same model in Indonesia. Noting the “similarities” between...