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.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to form taskforce in all districts, led by deputy commissioners, to stop unregistered and unfit vehicles plying the road.

Controversial Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky, who claims to have leaked a sex video of a prominent Paris politician, was arrested by French police on Saturday over an unrelated act of violence, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.

Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh on Saturday formed a new government but it immediately hit major hurdles after members of the key Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party pulled out of the lineup.

Jatiya Party Chairman and Deputy Leader of the Opposition GM Quader yesterday stressed the need for amending article 70 of the constitution to empower lawmakers in parliament.

Democratic US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said on Saturday Mike Bloomberg would not generate the “excitement and energy” needed to win the White House, focusing on a rival still not fully participating in the race.

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.

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.

In quashing the idea of married priests in the Amazon, Pope Francis has appeased traditionalists while disappointing progressives who had hoped for a historic turning point in the Catholic church.

The Trump administration is deploying highly trained officers to boost arrests of unauthorized immigrants in a number of cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, the latest move in a battle against localities that adopt “sanctuary” policies to protect them from deportation.

Google is in discussions on deals to pay media organizations for content, a move aimed at blunting criticism that it unfairly profits from copyrighted news, according to people familiar with the talks.

Police yesterday recovered a note which they suspect was written by the husband of the woman who was murdered, along with her two children, in the capital’s Dakshinkhan area.