The invention of the movable Bangla press shaped the national identity and culture of the middle class Bengali of the country during the British Raj.

Britain is committed to working with the US to destroy the "caliphate" set up by Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, the prime minister says.

British bank HSBC fires six staff after they filmed a mock Islamic State-style execution video during a team-building day out and posted footage online.

Chris Martin, the lead singer of popular British band Coldplay, played an impromptu gig at a pub in India's capital Delhi. The performance thrilled patrons.

Tunisia will shut down about 80 mosques accused of inciting violence, Prime Minister Habib Essid says, after a beach attack that left 39 people dead.

The Supreme Court stays until July 5 a special tribunal’s verdict that had fined Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury Tk 5,000 for criticising the punishment of Dhaka-based British journalist David Bergman by the same court.

Cynthia Lennon, the British first wife of The Beatles' songwriter John Lennon, has died aged 75, the couple's son Julian said Wednesday.

The masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John", who has been pictured in the videos of the beheadings of Western hostages, has been named.