Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday conveyed the visiting speakers and deputy speakers of national parliaments of different countries her strong stance against terrorism in the name of Islam and told them about her government's initiatives for ensuring public welfare.

The United States will "put pressure" on China to take action against North Korea's nuclear weapons program, the US ambassador to the United Nations said yesterday, days before a high profile visit by China's president.

Britain has apologised after an egg was thrown at a Saudi military official during a visit to London, Saudi state media said yesterday.

Speaker of Indian Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan yesterday said Indian parliament members were in a festive mood while ratifying the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA), and the LBA bill was passed unanimously.

Campaigners yesterday demanded Beijing release a Taiwanese rights activist ahead of a high profile meeting between China's President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.

Wearing Donald Trump masks and marching behind a life-sized doll of the president sitting on a toilet, dozens of people took part Saturday in a wry April Fool's Day march in New York.

Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, failed to disclose payments from a Russian television network and a second firm linked to Russia in a February financial disclosure form, according to documents released by the White House on Saturday.

After months of uncertainty and controversy, Bob Dylan finally accepted the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature at a jovial, champagne-laced ceremony on Saturday, the Swedish Academy announced.

A grim search for the missing resumed at dawn yesterday in southern Colombia after surging rivers sent an avalanche of floodwaters, mud and debris through a small city, killing around 254 people and leaving many more injured and homeless.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested a suspended general manager of Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) in the capital's Kakrail in a case accusing him and three others of misappropriating around Tk 7.43 crore.

Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has sought to set up a mechanism to prevent foreign interference and intervention in the internal affairs of sovereign states.

With gas, power and water supplies restored and some shops and roads reopened, many people were returning home in Sylhet's Shibbari area, but many of them found the stench of decomposed bodies of two suspected militants at “Atia Mahal” difficult to bear.

The World Health Organisation South-East Asia Region has designated Saima Wazed Hossain, a strong advocate for autism, as its champion to enhance commitment and generate awareness and action to address the sufferings of children with autism as well as their parents and caregivers.

The country's premier postgraduate medical institution, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), is being run without an emergency department since its inception in 1998.

The World Health Organisation South-East Asia Region has designated Saima Wazed Hossain, a strong advocate for autism, as its champion to enhance commitment and generate awareness and action to address the sufferings of children with autism as well as their parents and caregivers.

A three-day-old baby boy was stolen from a hospital in Bogra town yesterday morning.

A landslide in Colombia's southwestern border province of Putumayo sent mud and debris crashing onto houses overnight, killing at least 154 people and injuring scores, officials said yesterday.

Iran rejected an allegation by US Defense Secretary James Mattis that it was "the primary exporter of terrorism" and said yesterday that the main source was US ally Saudi Arabia.

Flooded rivers were still rising yesterday in two Australian states with two women dead and four people missing after torrential rains in the wake of a powerful tropical cyclone.

A Palestinian from the occupied West Bank stabbed and wounded three Israelis in Jerusalem's Old City yesterday before being shot dead by border guards, police said.