Tunisia’s court of appeal rejected on Tuesday a fresh request to release jailed media mogul and presidential candidate Nabil Karoui, one of his lawyers said, less than two weeks before the runoff.

French authorities have detained for questioning a man suspected of keeping a wild panther in an apartment from where it was rescued, only to be stolen from a zoo, legal sources said.

A child was killed yesterday in renewed clashes between demonstrators and Iraqi security forces, a day after at least two people were killed and 200 wounded in protests over unemployment, corruption and poor public services.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday headed to South Africa for a state visit after an outburst of xenophobic violence in and around Johannesburg stirred tensions between Africa’s leading economic powerhouses.

Sounding the poll bugle well before West Bengal goes to polls in 2021, Indian Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday took Trinamool Congress chief and state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stating that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would bring in monumental changes in the state.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government was trying to “catch and destroy termites” that eat up funds of development projects.

A priceless 18th-century Ethiopian crown is set to be returned from the Netherlands to Addis Ababa after a one-time refugee found it in a suitcase and hid it in his apartment for two decades.

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) was grappling Tuesday with the fallout from heavy losses in Sunday’s elections and intensifying corruption scandals hanging over the party.

A decision by Pakistan to appoint a former diplomat as its ambassador to the United Nations has sparked criticism over his alleged involvement in a domestic violence dispute in 2002.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who has been in prison since February 8 last year on graft charges, will go abroad for treatment if she gets bail.

A Brahmanbaria court sent a madrasa teacher to jail on charges of raping a sixth grader, while two youths were sued for allegedly raping a teenage girl in Narayanganj yesterday.

Two suspected drug peddlers were killed in a “gunfight” with police at Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday, hours after they were arrested.

The US House of Representatives’ impeachment probe into President Donald Trump intensified on Monday, as Trump raged about the inquiry and news reports suggested he had used additional diplomatic channels to go after his adversaries.

Almost every graduate has some sweet memories of being a freshman at university. But if anyone asks the students of botany at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University, they will probably share something that reflects how irresponsible the university authority was.

Amid increased import of onions from Myanmar, prices of the essential cooking ingredient came down a little in the capital’s wholesale markets yesterday, a day after the price skyrocketed following an export ban by India.

Papua New Guinea’s volatile Ulawun volcano erupted early yesterday, sending a column of red lava shooting up into the sky and forcing the evacuation of recently returned residents.

Sarajevo journalists protested Monday outside a football club whose fans stormed a radio station and threatened to kill its reporters unless they removed an article from their website.

Britain’s Prince Harry on Monday paid tribute to a British soldier who was killed during an anti-poaching patrol operation in southeastern Malawi.

A former Bosnian Muslim army officer was jailed for 12 years on Monday over his role in the 1990s wartime killing of 27 Croat civilians, including women, children and elderly, a Sarajevo court ruled.

Spain’s Socialist premier Pedro Sanchez on Monday offered himself as the only candidate who could guarantee “stability” as the country heads into its fourth elections in as many years.