'Pirates kill' Bangladesh crew
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The bodies of 14 Bangladeshi fishermen are found locked in the ice hold of their trawler in a suspected pirate attack.
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Pirates hijack a ship off the coast of Somalia, in the latest of a series of similar incidents in the area.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 14 -- An elite security force in Bangladesh has become little more than a government death squad, employing torture and killing more than 350 suspects in custody, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Thursday.
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AÂ flurry of raids and arrests in China over the last two weeks have ended what is estimated to be the world's largestÂ piracyÂ syndicate in operation for more than six years.
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Somali pirates captured another foreign cargo vessel off Mogadishu port and seized its crew in the second attack since the weekend along one of the world's most dangerous waterways, a maritime official said on Tuesday.
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Afghanistan's Taliban movement said on Saturday it had killed one of the two German hostages it was holding after the end of its deadline, and would kill the other in less than an hour if its demands were not met.
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Bangladesh beat West Indies by six wickets and eliminate them from the ICC World Twenty20.
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A river ferry capsized Monday in southern Bangladesh after colliding with a bigger ship, and at least 15 people were missing, a government official said.
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At least 20 endangered sea turtles have washed up dead along the southern Bangladesh coast over the last week, an official said Wednesday.
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The number of people killed after storms   hit eastern India and Bangladesh rose to nearly 100 with dozens   of bodies of fishermen washing up along the coast, officials   said on Thursday.
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Afghanistan&#39;s Taliban movement said on  Saturday it had killed one of the two German hostages it was  holding after the end of its deadline, and would kill the other  in less than an hour if its demands were not met.
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Taleban guerrillas say they carried out an attack in central Afghanistan that left four policemen dead.
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Bangladesh's elite security force has  killed nearly 370 people in custody and could be used by the  former ruling party during campaigning for next month's  election, a U.S.-based human rights group said on Thursday.
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At least 14 people are dead and at least 300 more injured after a series of deadly explosions rocked the capital of Bangladesh. The violence happened when bombs exploded at a rally where the top opposition leader was speaking.
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Somali pirates have released a cargo ship and its 16 Asian crew members they had held for 26 days, after the cargo owners agreed to pay a $100,000 ransom, a maritime official said Tuesday.
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Pirates hijacked a cargo ship delivering U.N. food aid to northeastern Somalia on Sunday &#151; at least the third time since 2005 that a vessel contracted to the United Nations has been hijacked off the country's dangerous coast.
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One of the Taleban fighters who masterminded the kidnapping of 23 South Koreans in July has been killed, Afghan officials say.