Dhaka looks reborn after a fresh lick of paint. Though this is not your typical municipal spruce-up. The sprawling Bangladeshi capital has been festooned with garish political murals celebrating ...

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 ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A labor court in Bangladesh’s capital sentenced Monday Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to six months in jail for violating the country’s labor laws. Yunus, who ...

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 ...

To foreign donors, development wonks and some of the world’s poorest people, Muhammad Yunus is a hero. The Bangladeshi economist, social entrepreneur and founder of Grameen Bank pioneered the use of ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh — More than 170 global leaders and Nobel laureates have urged Bangladesh’s prime minister to suspend legal proceedings against Muhammad Yunus, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ...

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

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has called on President-elect Donald Trump to ditch negativity and “build bridges” instead of walls. The U.S. election “became a victim ...

(CNN) — A Nobel laureate known as the “banker to the poor” will aim to bring stability to Bangladesh after he answered a call by student protesters for him to temporarily lead the restive country ...

A Nobel laureate known as the “banker to the poor” will aim to bring stability to Bangladesh after he answered a call by student protesters for him to temporarily lead the restive country following ...