The UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Alice Jill Edwards, said that every custodial death needed to be  investigated independently.

Four migrants were found dead near the Slovenian border and two others were taken to hospital in a serious condition after being transported by truck in ‘inhumane conditions’, Croatian police said ...

Michael Carrick said he feels like a ‘natural’ in the pressurised role as Manchester United manager after securing a return ...

A tiny, little-known world beyond Pluto appears to have an atmosphere, Japanese astronomers said Monday, defying what had been thought possible for icy objects in our cosmic backyard.

Information and broadcasting minister Zahir Uddin Swapon said on Monday that free and responsible media were essential to ...

The American International University–Bangladesh inaugurated its state-of-the-art AI supercomputing lab on its permanent ...

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department has issued a warning for a nor’wester over six divisions between Monday night and ...

New Age staff photojournalist Sony Ramani has won the first prize in a photography competition titled ‘Inclusive Societies: ...

A suspected outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship, on which three people have died, presents a low risk to the public, the WHO Europe said Monday, as Dutch authorities planned to repatriate two sick ...

The defence ministers of Indonesia and Japan signed a cooperation agreement on Monday, Jakarta said, underlining the need to ...

A delegation of the United States Trade Representative, led by assistant USTR for South and Central Asia Brendan Lynch, is ...

Md Anwar Shahid, managing director of Shimex International Limited, has been elected president of the Bangladesh-Malaysia ...