Six fishermen drowned and six others were missing after a fishing trawler capsized near Seagull Point in the Bay of Bengal in inclement weather.

A rickshaw puller allegedly went on a killing spree, hacking three neighbours dead and injuring six others, before he was caught and beaten to death by villagers yesterday morning in Cumilla’s Debidwer.

Renowned media personality Muhammad Jahangir, also executive director of Centre for Development Communication, passed away early yesterday at the age of 68.

The Jatiya Rickshaw-Van Shramik League yesterday suspended their road block movement, following assurances of separate lanes on highways for rickshaws and a relax on the ban on the three-wheelers in three major city roads.

A top child cancer specialist -- one of only three such experts in the country -- has been transferred from Chattogram Medical College Hospital to a Rangamati hospital with no cancer treatment facilities.

Tunisian authorities rescued 71 migrants, including 37 Bangladeshis, as their boat began to sink after setting out from neighbouring Libya for Italy, the National Guard said.

Australian seagulls carry drug-resistant bacteria that could lead to serious infections in humans, researchers said yesterday.

The Prime Minister’s Energy Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury yesterday assured that Bangladesh will complete the Strategic Environmental As-sessment for the conservation of Bangladesh’s south west region, including the Sundarbans, in two and a half years.

Philippine security forces yesterday confirmed the first Filipino “suicide bomber” attack in the Asian country, warning Islamic militants were grooming other local prospects for more such actions in the future.

An Iraqi man was yesterday sentenced to life in jail by a German court for the rape and murder of a teenage girl that fuelled far-right protests against a mass influx of mostly Muslim migrants.

Bulgaria will buy eight F-16 fighter jets to replace its ageing Soviet-built MiG-29 planes, its deputy defence minister said yesterday.

France will stop reimbursing patients for homeopathic treatment from 2021, the health minister said in an interview published yesterday, infuriating manufacturers but also disappointing doctors who wanted an immediate halt.

Blasting the prime minister for her argument in favour of hiking gas prices, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the price was increased to serve the interest of some ruling party men.

Parliament last night passed the Law and Order Disruption (Speedy Trial) (Amendment) Bill, 2019, extending its validity till 2024.

The High Court yesterday rejected the writ petition which sought a stay order on the government decision to hike the price of gas.

The migrant rescue boat Alan Kurdi has saved another 44 people, including women and infants from their stricken vessel in the Mediterranean, its operator German charity Sea-Eye said yesterday.

Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack on outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May, following the leak of diplomatic cables highly critical of his presidency.

Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, shot to YouTube stardom a decade ago for his uncanny ability to rock out to the Backstreet Boys.

Two men were killed in “gunfights” with Rab and police in Dhaka and Mymensingh early yesterday.

A Barguna court yesterday placed Rifat Farazi, one of the key accused in Rifat Sharif murder case, on a fresh seven-day remand in an arms case.