Court finds Mir Quasem Ali guilty of 10 charges, including murder and abduction, during the 1971 war

The laser defence system is capable of shooting down small aircraft within a two-km (1.2-mile) radius

Mr and Mrs Everyone is being criticised for debasing the decorum of public office.

Country seeks to end worst energy crisis in decades.

Decline reflects the end of military operations in Iraq in 2011 and the drawdown in Afghanistan

In 2009, the director was arrested in Zurich on a 31-year-old US warrant.

Centralising organ trafficking and child marriage, El Batout’s The Cat is expected to create a stir in Egyptian cinema

Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged in Tehran's Evin prison for the murder of man she said had tried to rape her

Washington leads the international drive to stop the spread of the disease that has killed nearly 5,000 people

Vatican ups technology to preserve the master painter’s Sistine Chapel frescoes, at risk due to ever-growing crowds