Paris yesterday banned all diesel vehicles aged 13 years or over from the city centre, the latest move in a campaign to tackle pollution on the city’s streets.

The madrasa principal who allegedly ordered the killing of Nusrat Jahan Rafi had sexually harassed several other girls before, two students of the madrasa told a Feni court yesterday.

China yesterday hailed the “great significance” of the weekend meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, and urged all sides to “seize the opportunity” to make progress towards the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.

Taiwan’s leader will stop over in the United States during a visit to four Caribbean diplomatic allies in a move that could anger Beijing.

One person was killed in Nepal when police opened fire on protesters after a 12-year-old boy drowned to death in a sand mining pit, officials said yesterday.

Two Yemeni rebel drones targeting southern Saudi Arabia were intercepted on Saturday, a Riyadh-led military coalition said, the latest in a series of assaults on the kingdom.

Mizanur Rahman, suspended deputy inspector general of police, yesterday filed a petition with the High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a corruption case.

Thirty leaders and activists of BNP-led alliance landed in jail yesterday for allegedly carrying out an attack on Sheikh Hasina in Pabna 25 years ago.

Crocodiles are sometimes described as living fossils for their close resemblance to their forebears who roamed the Earth during the age of the dinosaurs.

The accused of raping a nine-month-old baby surrendered before a Chattogram court yesterday.

The United States on Saturday called for an end to a mobile internet shutdown in two strife-torn states in Myanmar, saying the cut-off undermines transparency amid clashes between the military and insurgents.

At least 43 containers loaded with imported goods yesterday fell off a cargo vessel into the Bay of Bengal due to rough sea condition.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has promised the best possible treatment for the teen who was beaten up by a group of unidentified criminals in Satkhira’s Patkelghata upazila on Friday.

Police yesterday arrested four more people, including two accused, in connection with the killing of Barguna’s Shah Newaj Rifat Sharif while the three key accused are still at large.

Entrepreneurs will not be required to pay Advance Tax on import of capital machinery and spare parts this fiscal year, as the government has backtracked on its move to levy the indirect tax on such import to facilitate industrialisation.

Donald Trump yesterday stepped onto North Korean soil in a historic first as he met Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un in a moment of high diplomatic drama on the world’s last Cold War frontier.

Noting that 100 percent voter turnout in any polling station is not ‘normal’, the chief election commissioner yesterday said the Commission had nothing to do with it once the gazette of the election result was published.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday hinted that BNP leaders deposited money in Swiss banks, which was collected through nomination business ahead of the December 30 national election.

A top Sudanese general yesterday warned he will not tolerate any vandalism at a planned mass protest, but insisted the ruling generals would hand power to a civilian administration.

An open-source investigation has found that a top Russian military intelligence officer coordinated last year’s Salisbury chemical attack from a London hideout using his phone and a few messaging apps.