Millions of years after the ancestors of humans evolved to lose their tails, a research team at Japan’s Keio University have built a robotic one they say could help unsteady elderly people keep their balance.

Two Bangladeshis who went to India for treatment were killed in a road accident in Kolkata early yesterday.

Eleven people, including four students, were killed in road crashes in the last two days.

A US appeals court on Friday dealt a setback to the Trump administration attempt to bar almost all asylum applications at the US-Mexico border, but stopped short of applying its decision nationwide.

The condition of the sixth grader, who was gang-raped in Bhola on August 11, deteriorated yesterday.

A last-minute US warrant to seize an Iranian oil tanker preparing to leave Gibraltar after weeks of detention cast doubt over its departure yesterday, prolonging a diplomatic spat between Tehran, London and Washington.

Tanners will start buying rawhide from merchants today amid a slump in prices and dumping of 35 percent rawhide after the Eid-ul-Azha. “We have already conveyed the message to our members that we will start buying salt-applied rawhide from tomorrow [today].

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the debt of Bangabandhu’s blood would have to be repaid by materialising his dream of building a poverty and hunger-free “Golden Bangladesh”. “We’ll build that Golden Bangladesh and this is our pledge,” she said.

Noted novelist Rizia Rahman died at a hospital in the city yesterday. She was 79. Rizia breathed her last at Apollo Hospitals in the morning, said an of-ficial release.

A police constable has been sued on charge of raping his girlfriend in Gaibandha. The victim’s mother filed the case against Constable of Rangpur range Abu Bakkar Siddiqui and his aide Aminul Islam, with Gaibandha Sadar Police Station Thursday.

Condition of the sixth grader gangraped in Bhola on August 11 has slightly improved as the bleeding stopped yesterday. But she is still in pain and is given pain killers, said Bilkis Begum, coordina-tor of One Stop Crisis Centre at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Firefighters in Greece yesterday made progress against a four-day wildfire on the island of Evia that has burned through a pine forest and threatened villages, officials said.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Thursday that he is open to future negotiations under US mediation to resolve his country’s border disputes with Israel.

Nigerian Shia leader Ibrahim Zakzaky -- whose poor health in detention fuelled a wave of violent protests in Abuja -- has left the Indian hospital where he arrived for treatment this week, the clinic said yesterday, while his office said he was heading home.

A group of UN human rights experts yesterday called for the immediate release of three Iranian women given long jail terms for protesting laws compelling women to wear veils.

Sudan’s military rulers and protest leaders are scheduled to sign a landmark deal reached after a bloody uprising which is meant to pave the way for civilian rule.

Riot police in Zimbabwe yesterday fired teargas and beat demonstrators during a crackdown on opposition supporters who have taken to Harare’s streets despite a protest ban.

Police on Thursday rescued a child -- who had been abducted and sold a day ago -- from Sunamganj’s Jamalganj upazila and arrested two people in this connection.

A charity rescue ship carrying 134 migrants, mostly Africans, waited off the coast of Italy yesterday as a battle between former political allies in Rome stopped it docking at the southern island of Lampedusa.

More mental hospitals are needed to take potential mass killers off the streets, President Donald Trump said Thursday in response to recent mass shootings, while staying quiet on a pledge to toughen gun laws.