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Life Desk :For reasons not completely known to me, I have an inordinate fascination with people’s lifestyles. So unrelenting is this interest in how other...

AP, Nigeria :There’s no dancing in the streets, but people in the hometown of more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls are cautiously optimistic about news...

Al-Jazeera.com :A Pakistani police officer has said unknown gunmen have shot eight people dead and injured one in an insurgency-hit part of southwestern Pakistan.Senior police...

AP, Bermuda :Hurricane Gonzalo crushed trees, flattened power lines and damaged Bermuda’s main hospital during an hours-long battering, but the tiny, wealthy British territory suffered...

Al-Jazeera.com :North and South Korean troops briefly exchanged fire across their heavily fortified land border, in the second such incident this month, the South’s Yonhap...

Al-Jazeera.com :Fidel Castro says Cuba is ready to cooperate with the United States in the battle against Ebola.The 88-year-old former leader of Cuba wrote in...

Reuters, Hong Kong :Violent clashes erupted in Hong Kong early on Sunday for a second night, deepening a sense of impasse between a government with...

Reuters, Turkey :The fiercest fighting in days shook the Syrian border town of Kobani overnight when Islamic State fighters attacked Kurdish forces with mortars and...

AP, London :The World Health Organization said on Saturday that it wouldn’t explain details contained in an internal document obtained by The Associated Press in...

UNB, Dhaka: Several hundred students of different colleges staged a demonstration on the Dhaka University (DU) campus on Sunday, protesting the authorities’ decision not to...