Anti-graft watchdog Transparency International (TI) warned Tuesday of worsening corruption in democracies worldwide and said the United States had slid to the lowest-ever score on its 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index.

Two Palestinians on bicycles were killed in an Israeli drone strike on Tuesday, hospital officials said, marking the latest deaths since an October ceasefire that hasn't halted deadly attacks in the Gaza Strip.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by Tarique Rahman seems undecided about what kind of relationship to keep with neighbouring India.

A painstakingly detailed model of New York City will go on display this week after a US truck driver spent 21 years building it in his basement as an evening hobby.

Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani began his political journey in the 1920s when he got involved in the Khilafat and non-cooperation movements in Bengal.

Students in Bangladesh started protesting in early July 2024 and demanded reform in the job quota system that reserved more than half of government jobs.

London police said it arrested a 13-year-old on suspicion of attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed two other teenagers at a school, and that its counter terrorism unit was leading the investigation.

At least 10 people, including the suspected gunman, were killed, and more than 25 others were wounded in a shooting at a secondary school and a nearby residence in the remote town of Tumbler Ridge in northeastern British Columbia, Canada.

In pet-mad Brazil, the state of Sao Paulo will allow animals to be buried in family graves starting Tuesday, with a law recognizing "the emotional bond" that exists between humans and their household critters.

Politicians, billionaires, business tycoons and diplomats: they were all in the newly released tranche of Jeffery Epstein files. The high and mighty of US, UK and Europe are under the scanner for hobnobbing with a known child sex offender.

As Bangladesh prepares for its upcoming general elections, the Rohingya refugee issue is once again part of a broader discussion. Bordering Myanmar, Bangladesh has been hosting around 1.2 million Rohingya refugees, the largest concentration in Asia.

Bangladesh General Election 2026 LIVE Updates: Bangladeshis are set to cast ballots on Thursday in a crucial national election, the first since the July 2024 uprising that ended former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's 15 years of iron-fisted rule.

Google-parent Alphabet will issue bonds maturing in 100 years as it continues to invest massively in infrastructure for artificial intelligence, according to data published Tuesday by Bloomberg.

With Bangladesh heading into national elections in less than 24 hours, a rare and urgent congressional briefing on Capitol Hill has thrown a harsh spotlight on what speakers described as the accelerating persecution of Hindu.

A French yoga teacher who was held in a blood and feces-stained Venezuelan jail on suspicion of being a US spy described how guards put him "through hell" in an attempt to break him.

The office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has deleted its X post showing a map of India that depicted the entire region of Jammu and Kashmir, including Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Aksai Chin, as part of India.

Gisele Pelicot, the survivor of mass rapes organised by her husband, has published her memoirs about the trial that turned her into an internationally celebrated figure in the movement to end violence against women.

A lawyer for YouTube insisted Tuesday that the Google-owned video platform was neither intentionally addictive nor technically social media, as a landmark US trial targeting tech giants entered its second day.

US spy chief Tulsi Gabbard told Reuters on Tuesday that she has wound down a task force she launched last year with the declared goal of rooting out politicisation from intelligence agencies.

Feb 10 - xAI co-founders Tony Wu and Jimmy Ba have resigned from the artificial intelligence firm they started with billionaire Elon Musk less than three years ago, they said in social media posts.