A Silicon Valley "flying car" startup, Kitty Hawk, reportedly backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, released a video Monday of its

North Korea conducted a big live-fire exercise yesterday to mark the foundation of its military as a US submarine docked in South

The chief justice is the sole authority to make the decision about removing or keeping the statue of Greek Goddess Themis on the

The Supreme Court has released the full text of its judgment on a review petition in the Shazneen murder case, observing that the

The provision of Child Marriage Restraint Act 2017 allowing underage marriage in “special circumstances” may give rise to an increase

Maoist rebels who killed 25 paramilitary troops in an ambush in central India used local villagers as human shields, a survivor said

The Star's Editor-in-Chief Leanne Goh of Malaysia has been appointed the Asia News Network chairperson for the period 2017/2018.

An eight year old girl was assaulted after confronting two young men taking drugs inside the compound of her house on Saturday afternoon at Adakhola village of Rajapur upazila in Jhalakathi.

The medical board, which performed a second autopsy on Maldivian medical student and model Raudha Athif yesterday, did not give any opinion on the cause of her death, reasoning that they found the body partially decomposed.

Muzam Ali along with his five brothers got out of home on Wednesday morning to go to Jamuna Automatic Rice Mill at Gopalganj in the district.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday accused the BNP of spreading propaganda about the existence of uranium in floodwater of haor areas.

Former British Prime Minister David Cameron is likely to be in Dhaka on a very brief visit tomorrow.

A year has passed since the murder of LGBT magazine editor Xulhaz Mannan and his friend, but police could neither complete the investigation nor arrest any of the five killers.

Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who go head-to-head in the second round of France's presidential election on May 7, are diametrically opposed on issues ranging from taxes to Europe.

US oil giant Chevron Corporation yesterday announced that its subsidiary, Chevron Global Ventures Ltd, entered into an agreement to sell the shares of its wholly-owned indirect subsidiaries operating in Bangladesh to Chinese consortium Himalaya Energy Co Ltd.

Donald Trump pressed for the funding of a Mexico border wall Sunday as a looming spending showdown in Congress threatens to shut down the US government on the president's 100th day in office.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's lawyer has lodged a complaint against a former French diplomat accusing him of inciting an assassination of the Turkish leader, the state-run news agency reported yesterday.

An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced 20 people to death for the killing of 13 policemen in the aftermath of the ouster nearly four years ago of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.

Afghan security officials are increasingly employing torture to extract confessions from alleged insurgents, including children, according to a UN report issued yesterday that urged Kabul to bring more perpetrators to justice.

Two workers were killed and six others injured in a fire at a plywood manufacturing factory in Kushtia around noon yesterday.