A deadly fire engulfed residential buildings in Chawkbazar district in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, killing at least 70 people, as firefighters struggled to put out fast-moving flames in cramped, narrow lanes.
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Plastic chemicals found in birds' eggs on an island in the Canadian Arctic.
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A photographer probes teenagers' fetish to imitate idols on social media.
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Initiative could help mop up 18 million tons of greenhouse gases annually.
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission accused the country's troops of using “systematic torture” against the protesters, who took to streets in the capital, Harare, last week after a sharp hike in fuel prices.
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Expressing “serious doubts” on the conformity of the provisional results of December 30 vote in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the African Union has called on the country to suspend final election results.
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At least 100 people have died, and hundreds of others are missing after an overloaded passenger ferry capsized in the south of Lake Victoria, Tanzania on Thursday.
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Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa averted a run-off vote by securing just over 50 percent votes while opposition leader Nelson Chamisa bagged 44.3 percent of the total 4.8m votes cast.
Addressing a rally in the capital Caracas, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó said he would ensure new collection points and routes are set up to let in humanitarian aid blocked by President Nicolás Maduro.
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The International Contact Group on Venezuela has presented a plan that proposes a "political and peaceful process" to resolve Venezuelan crisis instead of a direct international intervention.
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Venezuela’s embattled President Nicolás Maduro said that he won’t quit under U.S. pressure, warning that his American counterpart Donald Trump will leave the White House “stained with blood.”
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The tug of war between President Nicolas Maduro and the self-declared interim President Juan Guaidó heated up after Venezuela's Supreme Court imposed a travel ban and financial curbs on the opposition leader.
Two suspected masterminds of the Pulwama suicide bombing, which killed 40 Indian paramilitary soldiers in the country’s northern state of Jammu & Kashmir last week, were gunned down by the troops on Monday.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, in State of the Union speech on Tuesday, announced that the much-awaited second nuclear summit with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un will be held in Vietnam at the end of February.
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A confidential report says that North Korea is constantly dispersing its assembly, storage and testing locations for nuclear and ballistic missiles in order to insulate them against military strikes.
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Beijing lashed out at the U.S. for slapping a string of criminal charges on Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, saying that the move is politically motivated and aimed at strangling fair and just competition.
Dutch PM Mark Rutte called the U.K. a “waning country,” warning that its exit from the European Union would leave it “too small” to flourish on the world stage and that “there is no such thing as splendid isolation.”
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The amendment by Labor Party aims to grab control of Brexit proceedings from a beleaguered Theresa May, whose withdrawal agreement with the EU was trounced with a historic margin in the House of Commons.
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After surviving a crucial confidence vote on Wednesday, British Prime Minister Theresa May is set to hold cross-party talks to break the deadlock on her Brexit withdrawal agreement with the European Union.
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British PM Theresa May faces a vote of no confidence in her government after her Brexit plan was defeated by a majority of 230 votes on Tuesday, in what marks the biggest parliamentary loss of the democratic era.
The offensive, targeting the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, killed 11 pro-government fighters while the Syrian media claimed that several “hostile targets” were shot down by the country’s air defenses.
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U.S. President Donald Trump warned Turkey of economic devastation if it attacks Kurdish forces in Syria after the withdrawal of American troops while demanding the Kurds not to “provoke” Ankara either.
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The U.S. Senate passed two resolutions last week, urging an end to America’s aid for Riyadh-led war in Yemen and accusing the kingdom’s crown prince of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
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The U.S. tightened the noose around Iran on Monday by re-imposing the sanctions that were lifted under a 2015 nuclear deal, a move that prompted a defiant response from the country’s President Hassan Rouhani.
Sixteen U.S. states are suing the Trump administration for “unilaterally robbing taxpayer funds” after President Donald Trump declared national emergency to secure funding for a wall along the Mexico border.
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Republicans and Democrats have struck a tentative deal, which would hand U.S. President Donald Trump a fraction of the funding he seeks to shore up border security, but with no mention of a physical barrier.
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The congressional Republicans and Democrats, who met to negotiate a deal to avert a looming U.S. government shutdown, failed to reach an agreement as the talks broke down over immigrant detention policy.
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The Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, has accused tabloid National Enquirer of “blackmail and extortion,” revealing that the owner of the American gossip magazine threatened him with releasing his intimate photographs.
