The High Court has disposed of only one of the 27 appeals filed by graft suspects against their convictions during the past caretaker

A suicide car bomber pursued by security forces blew himself up in eastern Damascus yesterday, with a monitor reporting 18 killed in the deadliest attack to hit the Syrian capital in months.

All eyes are set on the Supreme Court scheduled to deliver a verdict today on the appeal against a High Court judgment that scrapped the 16th constitutional amendment empowering the parliament to remove SC judges for incapacity or misbehavior.

A youth hacked a schoolgirl to death in Bogadubi village of Kishoreganj Sadar upazila yesterday after failing to rape her, police said.

Five people were killed and three others injured by a lightning strike in Atigram-Dhalsha village of Kushtia's Mirpur upazila yesterday.

The three female suspects arrested during the raid in a “Neo JMB” hideout in Kushtia on Saturday were trained up by militant leaders on using suicide vests, a high official of the district police, told The Daily Star.

China yesterday announced the launch of a powerful rocket designed to carry communication satellites into orbit had been "unsuccessful", in a glitch for the country's ambitious space programme.

Israeli authorities have re-arrested a prominent Palestinian lawmaker in an overnight raid over her leadership in a movement Israel considers a terrorist organisation, officials said yesterday.

Italy's interior minister yesterday called on other European countries to open their ports to rescue ships ahead of talks with France and Germany on tackling the migrant emergency.

An American warship yesterday sailed close to a disputed island in the South China Sea occupied by Beijing, as part of an operation to demonstrate freedom of navigation in the waters, a US official said.

Some partners of the ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance yesterday expressed their annoyance over price hike of daily essentials and poor government services, said sources present in the alliance's meeting yesterday.

A housewife was sued yesterday for allegedly torturing a minor domestic help in the capital's Pallabi.

China's President Xi Jinping yesterday warned that any challenge to Beijing's control over Hong Kong crossed a "red line", as tens of

As people were paying tributes to those killed in last year's terrorist attack at Holey Artisan Bakery yesterday, Masuda Begum kept crying outside where the posh restaurant used to be and where her son Shaon, 19, was working on that fateful night.

Syed Shahidul Haque Mama, a valiant freedom fighter, died at a Qatar hospital on Friday, ending over a two-month-long battle for life following a massive cardiac arrest. He was 66.

The kind of death Faraaz died in the Gulshan cafe attack a year ago represents the true spirit of Bangladesh and Islam, said leading businessman Latifur Rahman yesterday while remembering his grandson at a milad mahfil held at his Gulshan residence.

Heavy rain, flash flood and excessive waterflow from the upstream rivers have worsened the flood situation in many upazilas of the division.

At least 2,297 people were killed and 5,480 injured in road accidents in the last six months, a sharp rise in the death toll compared to the same period last year, said an organisation campaigning for safety in the transport sector.

Lionel Messi said "I do" to childhood sweetheart and mother of their two children Antonella Roccuzzo on Friday in his Argentine

Spain yesterday said it has arrested a Danish man on suspicion of fighting with Islamic State jihadists in Syria, as officials are on high