A jilted man who kidnapped and raped his ex-girlfriend before smashing her head with bricks and running her over with a car has been arrested, Indian police said yesterday.

Venezuelans in cars and on motorcycles, bikes and even horseback clogged roads Saturday and police fired tear gas at them in another day of protest against President Nicolas Maduro.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets Donald Trump tomorrow in Washington for the first time as president, hoping to entice the American leader into major policy shifts to solidify a crucial but increasingly strained relationship.

Contradictory information is found following news that Rizwan Haroon, co-founder of an English medium school in the capital, is a “top militant” and he “sneaked into” the country from the UK.

Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin's Sammilita Ganatantrik Parishad panel won 16 out of 18 posts of directors at the biennial election to the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) yesterday.

Four people, including a woman and her son, died after being electrocuted in Uttar Jaynagar area of Bhola's Daulatkhan upazila yesterday.

The government has moved to bring remittance entering the country through mobile financial services under a regulatory framework of the central bank to curb hundi.

Eight Bangladeshi expatriates were killed in road accidents in Saudi Arabia and the US on Saturday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday pledged $124 billion for his new Silk Road plan to forge a path of peace, inclusiveness and free trade, and called for the abandonment of old models based on rivalry and diplomatic power games.

Two police officers in Dhaka's Mirpur zone were withdrawn and another was suspended for implicating a toddler and a dead man in a theft case.

President Donald Trump called for tougher sanctions against North Korea after it test-fired a ballistic missile yesterday in an apparent attempt to test the South's new liberal president and the US.

More than 100 Japanese babies yesterday faced off in a traditional "crying sumo" ring, an annual ceremony believed to bring infants good health.

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank voted Saturday in municipal elections that underscored deep rifts between president Mahmud

The captain of the doomed Costa Concordia cruise liner turned himself in Friday after Italy's highest court upheld his 16-year prison

A Tunis court has sentenced Ridha Grira, the last defence minister under ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, to six years in jail for

At least 19 people were killed in a crash between a bus and two trucks early Saturday in Kenya, police said.

A UN committee has condemned the "widespread practice of torture" in Pakistan by police, the military and intelligence agencies in a

Abu Hena Rony, famed for his stand-up comedy on Indian reality TV programme Mirakkel, was sued for his Facebook post about Prime

Some 20 foreigners, including two Bangladeshis, held at an immigration detention centre in Tokyo are on a rare hunger strike in an

An alleged regional leader of an outlawed party and his aide were killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Goalanda upazila of Rajbari early yesterday.