The loss of oxygen from the ocean due to climate change risks “dire effects” on sea life, fisheries and coastal communities, a global conservation body said Saturday.

A man was allegedly killed by his niece’s stalkers for protesting against the crime in Kushtia’s Kumarkhali upazila early yesterday.

The White House said on Friday it would refuse to take part in hearings in the US House of Representatives set for next week that will consider what articles of impeachment to bring against President Donald Trump.

Three of a family were killed in Barishal’s Banaripara upazila early yesterday.

Chief Justice of India SA Bobde yesterday condemned the practice of extrajudicial killings, saying that justice loses its very character when it takes the form of revenge.

The BNP may go for street agitation across the country for the release of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia if she is denied bail in a corruption case.

Footprints on the edge of a building’s roof and a pair of sandals found near the body.

The authorities have ordered a leading Rohingya rights group to lock up its headquarters, said a spokesman for the group.

A Saudi national visiting the United States for military training was the suspect in a shooting attack at a US Navy base in Florida in which four people were killed yesterday, three US defense officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said Moscow seeks to renew the nuclear New Start treaty, a key remaining US-Russian arms treaty, before the end of the year.

Japanese scientists will begin the country’s first human trial for a new vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus this month, they said yesterday.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a legislative agenda on Thursday that touts tax cuts and tougher climate actions in the first test of his minority government.

Measles infected nearly 10 million people in 2018 and killed 140,000, mostly children, as devastating outbreaks of the viral disease hit every region of the world, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.

Three members of a family were killed and five others were injured as a microbus they were in rear-ended a covered van in Tangail’s Bhuapur upazila yesterday morning.

Artificial-intelligence judges, cyber-courts, and verdicts delivered on chat apps -- welcome to China’s brave new world of justice spotlighted by authorities this week.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) yesterday handed over two Bangladeshi fishermen to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), a day after they picked them up from the Padma in Rajshahi’s Godagari upazila.

Democrats in the US House of Representatives were set to focus yesterday on the serious business of deciding what charges to bring against President Donald Trump, after Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered the Judiciary Committee to draft formal articles of impeachment.

Global freedom of expression has been as its lowest for a decade, and Bangladesh is no exception with record numbers of attacks on journalists and cases of “legal harassment”, many perpetrated by state and political actors, says a UK-based rights body report.

The government is going to extend the MRT Line-6 -- now under construction from Uttara to Motijheel -- up to Kamalapur Railway Station so that people can avail the rail service directly from the country’s largest railway station.

India acknowledges Bangladesh as a free and sovereign state. Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares it in the parliament. Following the declaration, Pakistan unties all diplomatic relations with India.