Bangladeshi cricketer Sanjida Islam poses as a bride with a cricket bat, a day before her wedding day in Rangpur, Bangladesh, Friday, Oct. 16. (Sobhana Mostary via AP) DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Sanjida ...

Shamima Begum, a British teenager of Bangladeshi descent who ran away in 2015 to become an ISIS bride, has been moved from a Syrian refugee camp she received threats, her family's lawyer has said. The ...

A Bangladeshi bride who posted a picture of herself on social media wearing her grandmother's cotton sari with no make-up or jewellery has sparked a heated debate about the high expense of weddings in ...

"I did it so that other women can follow me." A bride in Bangladesh turned a centuries-old custom on its head as a way to stand up for women's rights. Khadiza Akter Khushi, 19, was photographed ...

DHAKA/NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new Bangladeshi law that lets under-age girls marry their rapists for "the greater good of the adolescent" may put more children at risk of sexual ...

Local NGOs speak out against this terrible practice. Growing poverty is behind the rise in child marriages. A victim, who can no longer go to school, tells her story. Bangladesh is one of the top 10 ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Sanjida Islam went into bat for a special cricket match in Bangladesh. The 24-year-old international cricketer wore her colorful wedding attire as she played a few shots and ...

When 19-year-old Khadiza Akter Khushi led hundreds of people to the home of her soon-to-be husband, she didn't do it for her guests. She did it for all the Bangladeshi women she hoped would follow in ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Sanjida Islam went into bat for a special cricket match in Bangladesh. The 24-year-old international cricketer wore her colorful wedding attire as she played a few shots and ...

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