Armed gangs killed 30 people in raids on two villages in an area of northwest Nigeria plagued by cattle rustlers and kidnappers, police said yesterday.

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in the stabbing death of a New York university student, authorities said Saturday, in a case that is being closely watched due to its racial dynamics.

In the sprawling Camp Kalma, refugees displaced by the Darfur conflict are overjoyed at the decision by Sudan’s new authorities to finally deliver president Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court.

A farmer from India has allegedly beaten Usain Bolt’s 100 metre sprint record - with the help of two huge buffaloes.

Saudi Arabia has deported 5,594 Bangladeshi migrant workers, including 300 women, in the last one and a half months, according to Brac Migration Programme.

Around 5,600 undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers in Saudi Arabia have applied for their repatriation under a special exit programme.

A man was killed and nine others were injured as a boiler exploded at a rice mill in Sadar upazila of Thakurgaon yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday expressed concern over the situation in the country’s banking sector, and wanted to know the state of International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL), a non-banking financial institution.

Online content should be regulated with a system somewhere between the existing rules used for the telecoms and media industries, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told global leaders and security chiefs on Saturday.

The working committee of Awami League, in its first meeting after the Liberation War held in Dhaka today, discusses the political and economic situation in the country and matters relating to the party.

Former state minister, freedom fighter, and Awami League lawmaker of Gazipur-3 Rahmat Ali passed away yesterday morning.

Bangabandhu issues a strong warning to miscreants and hooligans who are harassing innocent people and looting their properties. The prime minister says that these elements will be dealt “with a heavy hand by the government”.

The country’s democratic system will collapse and there is a need to wage a movement with fresh demands for fair polls, good governance campaigners, politicians and former bureaucrats said yesterday.

Claiming that police obstructed BNP’s procession and arrested its men, party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the government won’t be able to stop people from demanding release of Khaleda Zia by carrying out repressive activities.

The Human Rights Watch yesterday called upon the government to drop charges against prominent Bangladeshi publisher Nur Mohammad and baul singer Shariat Sarker and release them from custody.

The US Justice Department on Friday dropped its criminal investigation of a top target of President Donald Trump, former No. 2 FBI official Andrew McCabe, at the tail end of a week in which the US law-enforcement agency has come under extraordinary pressure from the president.

The 312 returnees from Chinese coronavirus hit city of Wuhan were yesterday released from the capital’s Ashkona Hajj Camp after a 14-day quarantine.

Eight of the nine people diagnosed with the new coronavirus in Britain have left hospital having now tested negatively twice for the virus, NHS England said yesterday.

The foreign ministers of China and the Vatican have met in the first high-level encounter between the sides -- a new sign of improving relations between two states with no diplomatic ties.

Facing overwhelming migration pressure on the Aegean with island camps on the brink of asphyxiation, the conservative Greek government has hardened its asylum policy with increased repatriations, new detention centres and plans for a sea barrier.