Chhatra League leaders who publicly spoke about receiving a hefty amount of money from JU VC Prof Farzana Islam last night said that they were feeling insecure on the campus after being threatened over phone.

South Korea yesterday reported its first cases of African swine fever, becoming the latest country hit by the disease that has killed pigs from China to North Korea, pushing up pork prices worldwide.

Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi yesterday announced that he was leaving the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) to form his own party, potentially destabilising the days-old ruling coalition.

UN investigators yesterday called for an expert evaluation of whether Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi can be legally implicated in the abuses committed against the country’s Rohingya minority.

Britain’s Supreme Court began considering legal challenges to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s controversial decision to suspend parliament for over a month, as the country’s political crisis over Brexit intensifies.

Skipping school to glide through a dirty Bangkok canal on a paddleboard, Lilly fishes out rubbish in her mission to clean up Thailand, where the average person uses eight plastic bags every single day.

Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens more in two blasts yesterday -- one at a campaign rally for the president and the other in Kabul -- with the insurgents warning of more violence ahead of elections.

The young journalist who was suspended from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) started receiving death threats.

Bangladesh will be looking for much more than just a win when they step out to take on Zimbabwe in the opener of the Chattogram leg of the ongoing tri-nation T20I series -- involving Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan -- at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium today.

A suspected robber was killed in what police claimed was a gunfight between police and armed cohorts of the suspect in Rajbari’s Sadar Upazila early yesterday.

Oil prices made their biggest jump since the Gulf War yesterday after President Donald Trump warned that the US was “locked and loaded” to respond to attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure that Washington blamed on Iran.

Bangladesh Press Council yesterday issued instructions regarding court reporting, urging the media not to publish any news or article that may influence under-trial cases.

An Air India flight was delayed by several hours after a swarm of bees landed on the cockpit window, attacking ground staff when they tried to remove them, officials said.

The red and green flag fluttering by the side of one of the many dirt roads in Bamako is a welcoming sight to a visiting Bangladeshi.

The High Court yesterday directed the Rajshahi chief judicial magistrate to conduct an enquiry into the alleged manipulation of the first information report (FIR) of a murder case by Puthia Police Station OC Shakil Uddin Ahammed.

The Shampadak Parishad (Editors’ Council) has formed its new executive committee with The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam as its president and Bangladesh Protidin Editor Naem Nizam as general secretary.

Some 175 Bangladeshi workers returned home from Saudi Arabia on Sunday night amid a crackdown on undocumented workers there.

Economic growth in Israel and chronic unemployment in the occupied West Bank is seeing more Palestinians cross to the “enemy” side seeking work.

Spain’s King Felipe VI yesterday began meeting parliamentary leaders in an eleventh-hour bid to form a government and head off what would be the country’s fourth elections in as many years.

Indian authorities were engaged in a major search and rescue operation yesterday to find 39 people missing after their tour boat capsized in a fast-flowing swollen river.