China's top diplomat will be in the US this week, becoming the highest-level Chinese official to visit the United States since President Donald Trump was elected.

A person was killed and at least 50 others were injured in a clash between two groups over arranging a mahfil in Chhatak municipality area in Sunamganj yesterday.

He had taken Tk 5 from his brother, saying he would return it one day. But Kazi Delwar Hossain never got the chance.

A Rangpur court is set to deliver the verdict today in the Kunio Hoshi murder case, over one year after the Japanese national was shot dead in the district's Kaunia upazila.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has begun its inquiry into the allegations against former Jatiya Party lawmaker Abdul Kader Khan's amassing wealth illegally. He is the alleged mastermind behind the killing of Gaibandha-1 Awami League lawmaker Manzurul Islam Liton.

People in the country's southwest suffered for the second consecutive day yesterday as transport workers kept vehicles off the streets protesting against the life-term of a bus driver.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced the husband of Rajshahi University student Wahida Sifat to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for provoking her to commit suicide in March 2015.

Thousands of people poured onto the cobblestone streets of a northern Italian town Sunday to throw oranges at a makeshift monarchy, a tradition dating back more than 150 years.

For a month they were in disguise of security guards. Even though they were accused in several criminal cases, they managed to secure jobs at a private security company faking their identities.

Daffodil International University yesterday announced that it would introduce a scholarship after Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain in recognition of his bravery during the Holey Artisan terror attack last year.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday asked private hospitals in Kolkata to treat patients from Bangladesh and India's Seven Sister States more carefully.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday inaugurated a state-of-the-art multi-storey food warehouse with a capacity to store 25,000 tonnes of food grains in Santahar of Bogra's Adamdighi.

The killing of bloggers because of their views clearly shows how hostile the environment is for free thinking, Prof Ajoy Roy said yesterday.

Terming the new chief election commissioner “subservient” to the government, Khaleda Zia last night said KM Nurul Huda was given job to facilitate Awami League's win in the next general election.

The parliamentary standing committee on foreign affairs ministry yesterday denounced the "propaganda" against the government's plan to relocate Rohingyas to Thengarchar near Hatiya Island in Noakhali.

French judges have placed two people under formal investigation and detained them on suspicion of wanting to travel to Syria or planning attacks in France, a judicial source said on Saturday.

When SSC examinees walk into the hall, most of them usually feel nervous, and all efforts are made to ensure there is no distraction.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi out-campaigned all-comers in the 2014 general election but, as he faces his biggest mid-term test, he is up against a rival determined to beat him at his own game.

Iran's ex-president Mahmud Ahmadinejad yesterday published an open letter to Donald Trump, welcoming his criticism of the US political system but taking issue with his visa ban and attitude to women.

France's presidential frontrunners Francois Fillon and far-right leader Marine Le Pen can expect no pause in legal investigations targeting them ahead of elections in April, the justice minister said yesterday.