A Rohingya man was killed in a suspected landmine blast along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, officials said yesterday.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday resumed his re-election campaign with a promise to lower taxes, but once again had to apologize for a photo showing him in blackface makeup.

Five women went on trial yesterday in an alleged plot to detonate a car bomb in front of Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral when France was battling a wave of Islamist attacks that have killed over 250 people since 2015.

Indonesian authorities have cited failures in the Boeing 737 MAX design and oversight as contributing to the 2018 Lion Air plane crash, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

Fifteen prison officers in Italy are under investigation for allegedly torturing a Tunisian prisoner, Italian media said Sunday.

Thousands of people protested in the Swiss capital Bern Saturday over the roll-out of a 5G wireless technology across the country, which they fear could damage people’s health.

A former SS soldier who faced charges for incitement and disparaging the memory of Nazi victims has died aged 96, German prosecutors said yesterday.

Young climate change activists demanded a greater role in decision-making Saturday as they met leaders at UN headquarters, saying that their growing voice on the streets had yet to earn them a seat at the political table.

Average global temperature between 2015-2019 is on track to be the hottest of any five-year period on record, a UN report by the world’s leading climate agencies said yesterday.

A Manikganj court has sent two men to jail on charges of abducting and killing a teenage boy in the district’s Sadar upazila.

Dozens of people dressed in black went on a “funeral march” up a steep Swiss mountainside yesterday to mark the disappearance of an Alpine glacier amid growing global alarm over climate change.

President Hassan Rouhani yesterday denounced the presence of foreign forces in the Gulf and said Iran will put forward a peace plan, after arch-foe the United States ordered reinforcements to the tinderbox region.

A woman is breaking the stereotype as well as earning solvency by butchering cattle in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur.

Former senior secretary Nasima Begum has been appointed as the new chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the first female to occupy the position.

Students of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) continued their protest for the fifth consecutive day yesterday demanding resignation of the vice chancellor for his alleged involvement in corruption and irregularities.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Abu Dhabi yesterday for New York to attend the 74th UN General Assembly after a stopover in the UAE.

The immediate former DMP commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia allegedly asked Paltan police to release a former reporter of a television channel in February last year after police arrested him for running an online gambling racket.

It could be a manipulated video embarrassing a candidate. Or a computer voting system locked by ransomware. Or doubts about electronic voting machines with no paper backups.

Colombian President Ivan Duque called on Saturday for coordinated international sanctions targeting Venezuela to help stop President Nicolas Maduro’s support for Colombian rebels and drug traffickers from destabilizing Latin America.

The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed a bomb blast that killed 12 people near the Iraqi Shia holy city of Karbala the previous day.