Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she expects the World Bank to play a stronger role in Bangladesh's development endeavours.

Afghan government troops say they have fought Taliban forces to a standstill outside the capital of southern Helmand province, but the city remains surrounded after the insurgents launched one of their most brazen offensives.

Three US warships in the Red Sea detected what may have been missiles fired at them on Saturday but none hit, the US military said, amid rising tensions with Yemen's Huthi rebels.

Twenty years have passed since abduction of Kalpana Chakma, but the case has yet to be solved.

With help from her skipping rope, Alma Deutscher has written an opera that's being staged this Christmas in Vienna, the capital of classical music. Not bad when you're aged 11 and three-quarters.

The World Bank is going to observe End Poverty Day in Bangladesh this year in acknowledgment of the country's remarkable success in reducing poverty.

Policymakers should act to correct injustices in the society and reduce inequalities to build an inclusive and peaceful society and avoid the risk of social unrest, a leading economist said yesterday.

Three boys were killed after being run over by a train in Brahmanbaria yesterday when they were shooting a video of another train.

Asadul Islam alias Arif, an operative of banned militant outfit JMB who was condemned to death for killing two Jhalakathi judges in 2005, was hanged at Khulna jail last night.

Three activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal were handed over to the police in Kalapara upazila yesterday for their alleged involvement in posting distorted photo of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on a Facebook page yesterday.

Khadiza Begum Nargis, undergoing treatment at Square Hospitals in the capital, was shifted to High Dependency Unit (HDU) of the hospital yesterday as her condition is improving gradually, doctors said.

Myanmar's government said on Friday a group inspired by Islamist militants was behind attacks on police border posts in its ethnically riven northwest, as officials said they feared a new insurgency by members of the Rohingya Muslim minority.

Donald Trump yesterday charged that "corrupt" media were seeking to rig November's election in favor of his Democratic rival Hillary

Renowned writer and Prof of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Dr Muhammad Zafar Iqbal and his wife received death threats from the same mobile number that issued threats to at least three others.

Inspired by the well-established lowland tea plantation in neighbouring Panchagarh and in some parts of Thakurgaon district, Nazrul Islam from Jhaljhali village in Dinajpur's Birganj upazila has been trying his hand at cultivating tea.

An imam of a mosque and a government employee have been arrested in Chandpur and Rangamati for allegedly defaming Prime Minister

An armed member of United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) was killed in a gunfight with a team of joint forces in Khagrachhari Sadar

Up to three rockets fired by unknown assailants hit a roadside fishmonger in Turkey's popular tourist region of Antalya yesterday, causing no casualties, reports said.

A man in Sweden has been stabbed by an attacker wearing a clown mask, police said yesterday, as a wave of hysteria about sightings of "creepy" or "killer" clowns sweeps the United States and European nations.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday entertained visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping with Dhakai Kachchi Biriyani, shami kabab and aloo bukhara chutney as he hosted a dinner for his Chinese counterpart at the Bangabhaban.