Paul Ryan: 'I'm just not ready' to back Donald Trump

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he cannot yet support presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

ISIS fighter, wife, killed in airstrike, U.S. says

A U.S. airstrike has killed an ISIS fighter and his wife who were involved in planning attacks against the West, the Pentagon announced Thursday.

Venezuela health care crisis: Shooting is just the first pain

When Jose Luis Vasquez was brought to the emergency room last Monday with a gunshot wound to the chest, the worst of his nightmare should have been over. He had survived an armed robbery without losing any major organs and needed only what doctors described as minor surgery.

Why Hillary Clinton isn't pushing Bernie Sanders to exit race

Hillary Clinton is itching to take on Donald Trump in a one-on-one contest for the White House -- but she isn't pushing Bernie Sanders off the stage yet.

Nizami’s death penalty upheld

The Appellate Division on Thursday dismissed war crimes death row inmate Motiur Rahman Nizami’s petition seeking review of his death sentence upheld by the apex court earlier.

Current customs tariff structure inept, business unfriendly: FBCCI study

The existing customs tariff structure in the country is inefficient and unfriendly to business as there are overlapping in import duty rates and faulty categorisation of raw materials, intermediate and finished goods in the structure, an FBCCI study report said.

Export earnings grow 9.22pc in July-April

The country’s export earnings in July to April of the current fiscal year stood at $27.63 billion, posting a 9.22 per cent growth from the $25.30 billion earned in the same period of the previous fiscal year driven mainly by a moderate increase in readymade garment export.

Tigers in tricky spot over WC

It is now official that Bangladesh are ranked seventh in the ICC one-day international rankings after the annual update on May 4 and they are leading the eighth placed West Indies by just 10

US ‘outraged’ over killing of Xulhaz

US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs Nisha Desai Biswal said Thursday that the United States was very saddened and outraged at the killing of LGBT

North Korea prepares for highest political gathering in 3 decades

The sound of loudspeakers blaring at 6 a.m. is something I've come to expect when traveling to the North Korean capital. The citywide alarm signals the beginning of each new workday. But on this particular morning, the wake-up call went off an hour earlier -- at 5.