Boko Haram jihadists on Saturday killed at least four villagers and kidnapped four women in western Chad, the local governor and a security official said.

Eleven migrants died on Saturday, including eight children, when their vessel sank in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey, state news agency Anadolu reported.

Both sides in Libya’s conflict agreed to a ceasefire from yesterday to end nine months of fighting, following weeks of international diplomacy and calls for a truce by power-brokers Russia and Turkey.

An 18-year-old girl, who is deaf and disabled, was allegedly raped in her residence in Gokulnagar village in Pabna’s Atghoria upazila on Saturday noon.

The High Court (HC) yesterday issued a rule asking authorities concerned of the government to prepare a list of encroachers and polluters of the Ichhamati river in Pabna and to submit it before the court in 90 days.

Five people were killed and three others injured in a road accident on the Dhaka-Khulna Highway at Charkhankanapur area in Rajbari’s Sadar upazila around 3:30pm on Sunday.

Hundreds of thousands of devotees yesterday raised their hands to seek divine blessings for mankind and the Muslim Ummah during Akheri Munajat of the first phase of Biswa Ijtema.

Dhaka wants peace and stability all over the world and this is something Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will emphasise during her three-day visit to the UAE where she reached last night.

Mikail Akar doesn’t flinch as the cameras click around him. Born in 2012, the German artistic prodigy has spent half his life in the limelight.

A Bangladeshi company is producing biodegradable packaging from an unlikely source material -- corn or maze -- with the aim of offering a suitable alternative to polythene bags, which survive in soil for several hundred years and leave devastating impacts on the environment.

Protesters piled pressure on Iran’s leadership yesterday with demands for top authorities to quit after the Iranian military admitted it had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian airliner at a time when it had feared US strikes.

A Sufi folk singer has been arrested in Tangail under the Digital Security Act for allegedly hurting religious sentiment.

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani will visit Tehran, the government said yesterday, amid soaring tensions following the US killing of an Iranian commander and retaliatory strikes.

Confrontation between Washington and Tehran over the US killing of a top general and turmoil in Libya were set to dominate talks in Moscow between the leaders of Russia and Germany yesterday.

Greek police have detained 10 undocumented Bangladeshis who were involved in a road crash on Friday following a high-speed police chase in the city of Thessaloniki.

Turkey yesterday asked Russia to convince eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar to respect a ceasefire initiative by Ankara and Moscow that he has rejected.

Bernie Sanders leads a tight race for the Democratic presidential nomination in Iowa for the first time, according to a key poll released yesterday weeks before the state kicks off the 2020 voting on February 3.

The birthplace of Germany’s national anthem and a practice bombing range for British airmen after World War II, Helgoland island in the North Sea turns cuddly at the turn of the year as grey seals arrive to give birth.

Crisis-hit Lebanon yesterday said it “regrets” being among seven countries stripped by the United Nations of voting privileges in the General Assembly for failing to pay their dues.

The proposed opening of three Turkish schools in Germany has rekindled a long-standing row over the perceived influence of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government on the country’s three-million strong Turkish community.