A 1955 Mercedes-Benz, one of only two of its kind, was auctioned off earlier this month for a whopping 135 million euros ($143 million), making it the most expensive car ever sold, RM Sotheby’s announced Thursday.

The United Nations yesterday warned that up to 18 million people in the Sahel face severe food insecurity, with rations being cut due to funding shortages.

Ukraine’s bid to join the EU cannot be sped up despite the country’s invasion by Russia, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said yesterday, adding that the bloc must find a “fast and pragmatic” way to help Kyiv.

Local airlines are poised to raise ticket prices further after Padma Oil Company this week hiked the price of jet fuel for the 14th time in 18 months.

The UN warned Wednesday that a growing global food crisis could last years if it goes unchecked, as the World Bank announced an additional $12 billion in funding to mitigate its “devastating effects.”

BNP leader and former MP Noor Afroz Begum Jyoti was awarded with seven-year imprisonment in a graft case yesterday.

The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday sentenced three men to death for crimes against humanity in Moulavibazar during the Liberation War.

Members of Bangladesh Navy yesterday rescued 33 Rohingya refugees from the Teknaf coast in Cox’s Bazar while they were being trafficked to Malaysia through the Bay of Bengal.

A 65-day ban has been imposed on all kinds of fishing in Bangladesh maritime from today.

At least 26.5 percent of the country’s population suffer from obesity while 13 percent from hypertension and seven percent from diabetes, find multiple studies by the health directorate.

The BNP yesterday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s remark about pushing the party’s Chairperson Khaleda Zia into the river from the Padma bridge was tantamount to a “death threat”.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed another case, accusing PK Halder and 11 others of laundering Tk 44 crore.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the finance and commerce ministries and Bangladesh Bank to find ways to deal with the economic pressure caused by the Russia-Ukraine war and Covid pandemic.

As the Surma and the Kushiyara keep rising, more and more areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj are going under water every day and large number of flood victims suffering from scarcity of food and drinking water.

Sri Lanka’s central bank has secured foreign exchange to pay for fuel and cooking gas shipments that will ease crippling shortages, its governor said yesterday, but police fired tear gas and water canon to push back student protesters.

There was no late drama as the first Test between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka ended in an expected draw on the fifth day at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday.

The country will have to import fertiliser at higher prices from the international market in the wake of the global price hike due to the Russia-Ukraine war.

The discovery of a prehistoric crocodile fossil in Peru from around 7 million years ago has given paleontologists more clues as to how modern crocodiles, all freshwater creatures in the Andean country, first came to land from the sea.

Mushfiqur Rahim’s eighth Test century was the highlight of fourth day’s play while Taijul Islam’s late all-round effort gaveBangladesh a ray of hope of winning the first Test against Sri Lanka in what is expected to be an exciting final day at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram today.

The United States is easing some of its tough sanctions on Venezuela to encourage dialogue between President Nicolas Maduro’s regime and its opponents, a senior official said Tuesday.