As Bangladesh gets set for one of its most consequential elections, scheduled for February 12, it is the right time to revisit the figures and moments that have shaped the country's modern history.

Thai police shot and arrested a gunman who opened fire Wednesday at a school in southernThailand, police and other authorities said.

US President Donald Trump is the only person who has been going around telling the world that India plans to stop buying oil from its all-weather, longtime ally Russia, the foreign minister of the transcontinental nation said.

Russia threatened to take military "countermeasures" if the West boosts its own military footprint on Greenland, Moscow's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will push Donald Trump on Wednesday to take a tougher stance in nuclear talks with Iran, after rushing to Washington to stiffen the US president's resolve.

On the eve of Bangladesh's elections, exiled writer Taslima Nasrin has delivered her most blistering critique in years of the country's political direction, accusing the Muhammad Yunus-led interim dispensation of empowering Islamic fundamentalists.

Russia will keep observing the missile and warhead limits in the New START nuclear treaty with the United States, which expired last week, as long as Washington continues to do the same, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.

A German tabloid has described the connection as a romantic relationship, while a source close to Schmidt characterised it as a "close friendship."

Bangladesh General Election 2026: The absence of the party that once championed close India ties has left a gap, giving the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies, including Jamaat-e-Islami, a chance to change the country's foreign policy.

A group of weary-looking Indian men carrying sports bags queued at passport control at a busy Moscow airport one recent evening after flying over 2,700 miles - and via Uzbekistan - to get work.

While the agreement with the United States was negotiated under duress, it is consistent with India's recent trade policy, which has shifted away from protectionism to focus on domestic support programs and trade deals. But more hard work lies ahead.

In 2015, bloggers and atheists were hacked to death on the streets. 

The British Army is turning to Ukraine for insights on training soldiers in drone operations.

A large number of child victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were coerced into participating in trafficking activities once they reached adulthood, tech billionaire Elon Musk claimed on Tuesday.

A 23-year-old woman was shot dead by her father at his home in Prosper, Texas, following a heated argument over US President Donald Trump and gun ownership.

Pakistan knew full well that they were not going to get anything out of its tantrums. But there were crucial political points to be won - and they were.

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.