DHAKA, Bangladesh — Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus took the oath of office as head of Bangladesh’s interim government Thursday following the uprising that prompted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...

A Feb. 9 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a man delivering a lecture with foreboding music playing in the background. “Very few people realize it was the Catholics that started Islam.

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus took the oath of office as head of Bangladesh’s interim government Thursday after an uprising prompted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to step down and flee to India.

Over more than four decades, Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank has disbursed some $37 billion in collateral-free loans to over 10 million of the world’s poorest people. But founder Muhammad Yunus still ...

MUHAMMAD YUNUS was already Bangladesh’s most famous citizen; this week he assumed its most important political office. On August 6th the 84-year-old economist and Nobel peace laureate was appointed to ...

Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus has hailed the death penalty given to ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The special tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced Sheikh Hasina to death on Monday, finding her guilty of crimes against humanity.