Modern humans emerged 200,000 years ago in a region of northern Botswana, scientists claimed Monday, in what appeared to be the most precise location of mankind’s “ancestral homeland” yet discovered.

The United States has given the remains of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi a burial at sea and afforded him religious rites according to Islamic custom after he was killed in a US commando raid in Syria on Saturday, three officials told Reuters.

A 67-year-old woman has given birth in China, a hospital said yesterday, with the parents claiming they are the country’s oldest couple to conceive a baby naturally.

Prof Ajoy Roy, father of slain writer-blogger Avijit Roy, yesterday told a court that he would not keep appearing for hearings of his son’s murder case.

The video starts with one Hasan beating an elderly man -- whose hands and legs are tied and who is visibily unconscious -- with a wooden stick. Shouts can be heard off camera, which then pans to the victim’s around 12-year-old daughter, who tries to come to her father’s aid. “Younger women than you have been raped,” Hasan says to her. At this, she backs away.

Controversial former lawmaker Joynal Abedin Hazari was made advisory council member of the ruling Awami League yesterday.

A mobile court yesterday fined an IT company Tk 10.5 lakh for illegal activities relating to training and recruiting Bangladeshi jobseekers for Japan.

Dhaka University teachers yesterday evening had heated arguments at the academic council meeting held over the “illegal enrolment” of 35 Chhatra League leaders.

Cambodia deployed soldiers, police and divers to scour an island popular with backpackers after a British tourist went missing there four days ago, an official told AFP yesterday.

The High Court has fixed November 3 to deliver its verdict on the rule issued over the formation of a commission to look into the irregularities and corruption took place in the banking sector in the last two decades.

The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail for eight weeks to a boy aged about 12 in a human trafficking case filed in Cox’s Bazar.

Some 2,000 websites in Georgia, including those of the president, courts, and media came under a massive cyber attack yesterday, officials and media said.

Bangladesh Bank yesterday asked all banks to freeze the accounts of Aziz Mohammad Bhai for 30 days.

The High Court yesterday ordered the government not to harass or arrest Nobel Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus until November 7 in three cases filed in connection with the sacking of three employees of Grameen Communications.

Hired by yaba smugglers, some Rohingyas in the guise of fishermen are bringing in the crazy pills and charging Tk 1 for each tablet.

The European Union yesterday agreed a three-month flexible delay to Britain’s departure from the bloc as Prime Minister Boris Johnson pushes for an election after opponents forced him to request an extension he had vowed never to ask for.

Confusion has arisen over the health of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia as the hospital authorities claim she is stable while her party and relatives say her life is at stake as her health deteriorated.

Company-based route permit system for buses in Dhaka city is the main cause of extortion, said Bangladesh Road Transport Owners’ Association yesterday, demanding the system be changed.

An alleged robber was killed in a “gunfight” between law enforcers and his cohorts in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj yesterday.

Expelled Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan formed a large criminal gang to expand his clout after he became the organising secretary of the youth front’s Dhaka south unit in 2012, a Rab probe found.