Police have charged a 25-year-old man with the murder of Kulsuma Akter, who was stabbed to death as she pushed her baby in a pram in Bradford.
Habibur Masum, from Burnley, was charged on Wednesday, after a four-day manhunt ended in his arrest early (...)
Nearly seven years after the Myanmar military killed thousands of Muslim Rohingyas, in what the UN called "textbook ethnic cleansing", it wants their help.
From interviews with Rohingyas living in Rakhine State the BBC has learned of at least 100 of (...)
The opposition in Myanmar says it ordered a mass drone attack on the country's embattled military in the capital Nay Pyi Taw.
The National Unity Government (NUG) said 29 drones armed with explosives targeted the airport, air force base and military (...)
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has sent a cable of congratulations to the People's Republic of Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin on the anniversary of his country's Independence Day.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques wished (...)
India's government has announced plans to enact a controversial citizenship law that has been criticized for being anti-Muslim.
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will allow non-Muslim religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan (...)
A lecturer in a medical school in Bangladesh has been suspended, two days after allegedly shooting and injuring a student in a classroom.
Dr. Raihan Sharif was arrested shortly afterwards but was only suspended on Wednesday following a protest by (...)
Just over two years after they strongarmed Prime Minister Narendra Modi into an exceptional U-turn, India's protesting farmers are back on the streets – and this time the stakes are higher.
For about two weeks now, thousands of angry farmers have (...)
Bangladesh's critically endangered wild elephants have received a court order banning their adoption and protecting them from exploitation.
Animal rights groups welcomed the High Court suspension of all licences, so young Asian elephants can no (...)
Last Tuesday, a noisy crowd of several hundred people stood in the small main square of Pyin Oo Lwin, a popular Myanmar hill town, to hear a bespectacled monk make a startling suggestion.
Min Aung Hlaing, the country's military ruler, should step (...)
Ethnic insurgents in western Myanmar say they have captured an important town on one of the main routes to India from military forces.
The Arakan Army (AA) — one of three armed groups that launched a major new offensive against the military in (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) announced that it has cut the upper limit of fee for recruiting domestic workers from a number of countries. These countries include the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, (...)
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has secured her fourth straight term in a controversial election.
Ms Hasina will serve another five years in office after her party the Awami League and its allies won 223 of 300 parliamentary seats (...)
Polls in Bangladesh opened on Sunday for a general election that is being boycotted by the main opposition party, with the country's leader Sheikh Hasina — the world's longest serving female prime minister — set to win her fourth consecutive (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) launched the first phase of the Skill Verification Program (SVP) in Egypt.
The program was launched in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Manpower, by carrying out the (...)
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has appealed for action in the wake of a mob attack against refugees in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on Wednesday.
Hundreds of young people stormed a building basement where scores of Rohingya refugees were sheltered, (...)
A US woman with a rare double uterus has given birth twice in two days — after a "one in a million" pregnancy and a total of 20 hours in labor.
Kelsey Hatcher, 32, delivered one daughter on Tuesday, and a second on Wednesday, at the University of (...)
Malaysia's government announced Wednesday that it was imposing a ban on all Israeli owned and flagged ships, as well as any vessels headed to Israel, from docking at its ports.
The announcement by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's office said the ban (...)
The Cabinet, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman in Riyadh on Wednesday, lauded the selection of the Saudi minister of finance to chair the IMF International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC).
It also praised the Kingdom's (...)
The transition to renewable energy at UN peacekeeping missions helps to ensure the safety and security of uniformed personnel serving in the field, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Under-Secretary-General Atul Khare was speaking at the 2023 UN (...)
"They can smell us," said Dr. Clare Strode.
She is carefully carrying a mesh cage of mosquitoes across her lab in Lancashire, north-west England. To be more precise, these are Aedes aegypti, one of two species known to carry and transmit the dengue (...)
Almost three years on from its bloody coup, Myanmar's military junta is facing the biggest threat to its hold on power as it fights wars on multiple fronts across the Southeast Asian nation.
In recent weeks, powerful armed ethnic militias have (...)
For a long time, people living in two densely populated Asian capitals have suffered the toxic smog that blanket their cities.
On some days, when the smoke draped Delhi and Beijing — both teeming cities with more than 20 million people — in an (...)
JEDDAH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan held a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh during the International Conference on Women in Islam in Jeddah.
Prince Faisal conveyed greetings from Custodian of the Two Holy (...)
Weeks of mounting political tension have erupted into protests and bloodshed in Bangladesh, leaving the country on edge ahead of general elections due in January.
Several senior opposition leaders were arrested last Sunday, a day after a massive (...)
DHAKA — Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed received Sheikh Abdullah Al-Buaijan, imam and preacher of the Prophet's Mosque, in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Sunday.
Sheikh Al-Buaijan is currently on a visit to Bangladesh as part of the (...)