Mayoral candidates from the ruling Awami League and the BNP wrapped up their intensive two-week-long campaign in Comilla yesterday midnight in the run-up to the city corporation polls.

Three Ukrainian soldiers died in fresh clashes in the country's rebel east, the military said on Sunday.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order today to undo his predecessor Barack Obama's plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fueled power plants, according to the new environmental chief.

Northern Ireland's squabbling parties have abandoned talks to form a power-sharing government before Monday's deadline to resolve their bitter political differences.

A Chittagong court hearing a firearms case centring the murder of former superintendent of police Babul Akter wife's Mahmuda Khanam Mitu yesterday completed recording the plaintiff's deposition.

Security forces physically ejected protesting MPs from the Maldives parliament yesterday in chaotic scenes during a failed opposition attempt to impeach the speaker and destabilise the president ahead of elections next year.

The High Court will deliver verdict on April 2 on the death reference and appeals in blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider killing case.

With the Comilla city polls only a day away, around two-week electioneering will end at midnight tonight.

Brac Founder and Chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan Abed has been selected as one of “The World's 50 Greatest Leaders” by Fortune magazine.

The cabinet yesterday approved a draft law requiring education up to at least eighth grade for getting driving licences, and providing for harsher punishments for offences on roads.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim yesterday expressed his country's willingness to work together with Bangladesh to curb militancy.

Myanmar's army chief defended a military crackdown in Rakhine State yesterday after the UN pledged to probe claims security forces carried out a campaign of killing and torture against Rohingya Muslims there.

It was nothing less than a new lease of life for Ujjwal Chakraborty and for his wife Kanta Bhattacharya, who had been trapped inside Atia Mahal in Sylhet city.

People living in the surrounding areas of the militant den at “Atia Mahal” in Sylhet city were passing hard days after authorities cut off power and gas connections there to facilitate the raid on the hideout.

Three Ukrainian soldiers died in fresh clashes in the country's rebel east, the military said on Sunday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday it would be "easier" if the EU blocked Ankara's bid to join the bloc, suggesting he could even hold a referendum on the matter.

The Pentagon under President Donald Trump is enjoying greater freedom to run its wars the way it wants -- and not constantly seek White House approval on important decisions.

A quarter of a century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia is finally set to pay off all the foreign debt it inherited from the vanished Communist empire.

Fighting at a dam held by the Islamic State jihadist group in northern Syria put it out of service yesterday, risking dangerous rising water levels, a technical source told AFP.

Iraq's military yesterday said that 61 bodies were recovered from a collapsed building that Islamic State had booby-trapped in west Mosul, but there was no sign the building had been hit by a coalition air strike.