Australia has foiled an Islamist-inspired terrorist plot to bring down an aircraft with an improvised explosive device, authorities said yesterday, after four people were arrested in raids across Sydney.

Diaz Irfan Chowdhury, assistant secretary of Chhatra League central committee, whose body was found hanging in his house near Chittagong University on November 20 last year, was "strangled to death".

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has come to the aid of the family of Jharna Rani, who was killed in a militant attack at Sholakia in Kishoreganj last year, by giving her son a job in a private bank.

Elite Kenyan security forces yesterday killed a man at the home of Deputy President William Ruto, ending a 20-hour siege that began with an attack in which a policeman was injured, police said.

King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Saturday pardoned more than a thousand detainees, some of whom were under arrest for taking part in protests in the troubled northern Rif region, the justice ministry announced.

Tesla began delivering on a dream to make an electric car for the masses, rolling out its "Model 3," aiming to disrupt a world accustomed to automobiles powered by pollution-spewing fossil fuel.

The Dhaka visit of US President's Deputy Assistant Lisa Curtis has been postponed at the last moment.

Import and export of goods through the Benapole-Petrapole land ports will be round the clock from August 1.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was pushing forward Saturday with a controversial weekend vote, despite growing domestic political opposition, international condemnation and deadly street protests.

When tiger population is going down across the world, Environment and Forest Minister Anwar Hossain Manju has claimed that the number of the animal is increasing in the Sundarbans.

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha yesterday said if anyone thinks that he makes "political statements", he will continue to do so for the sake of the judiciary.

Kim Jong-Un yesterday boasted of North Korea's ability to strike any target in the US after a second ICBM test that weapons experts said could even bring New York into range -- in a potent challenge to President Donald Trump.

A two-day social business conference ended yesterday with indoor discussions where entrepreneurs, investors, practitioners and experts from various countries shared their experiences and ideas tied to the new business theory pioneered by Nobel peace laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus.

Staff CorrespondentDelta Coalition members have decided to introduce some programmes to stop ongoing migration and displacement of coastal people.

Transcom Group Chairman Latifur Rahman has been honoured with the prestigious “SAARC Outstanding Leader” award for setting a “rare example” of doing business by upholding moral values while also fulfilling the organisation's social responsibilities.

Six Bangladesh nationals, including two siblings, were killed in a road accident in Saudi Arabia on Thursday night.

At least 69 people are known to have died in a Boko Haram ambush of an oil exploration team in northeast Nigeria, as three men kidnapped by the jihadists made a video appeal.

Two women accused of the Cold War-style assassination of the half-brother of North Korea's leader in Malaysia will go on trial in

New York's museum dedicated to the Al-Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001 has drawn more than 10 million visitors in just over three

Venezuela careened towards a showdown yesterday between anti-government protesters and security forces, as the death toll from