Ashiqul Alam, 22, the US green-card holder from Bangladesh who had planned to attack Times Square, once expressed admiration for Osama Bin Laden and said he wanted to “carry on Bin Laden’s legacy of violent extremism”, The New York Times reported citing court documents.

The wife of an Awami League leader in Natore’s Baraigram upazila died on Friday from burn injuries she sustained at her in-laws’ on Monday.

An estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married when they were still children, according to the first-ever analysis on child grooms, launched on Friday by the Unicef.

The remains of 12 Muslims killed in Bosnia’s brutal 1992-95 civil war have been found in a mass grave on a mountain near Sarajevo, Fena news agency said yesterday.

Truckers overloading their vehicles and getting on Bailey bridges is causing frequent collapse of the temporary structures, some of which are decades old.

The Philippines yesterday rejected a call for an independent United Nations probe into Manila’s alleged human rights violations, describing it as interference in the affairs of the Asian nation.

Thousands of people took to the streets of Liberia’s capital Monrovia Friday to protest rising prices and corruption, posing a key political test for President George Weah.

A Kushtia court yesterday sent a man to jail on charge of torturing a 13-year-old differently abled boy.

A police constable allegedly stabbed his mother-in-law to death and wounded his wife and brother-in-law in Chuadanga’s Alamdanga upazila yesterday.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will recommit the United States on a visit to Bangkok to supporting the development of Southeast Asian nations in the face of a rising China, an official said Thursday.

US scientists who studied the performance of myriad athletes -- including adventurous souls who spent five long months running across the United States -- have come up with an estimate of the absolute physiological boundary of human endurance.

2018 was a “golden year” for natural gas with demand surging worldwide, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said yesterday, prompting concern from environmental groups over the climate impact of the world’s new favourite fuel.

An estimated 3.3 million people have fled the crisis in Venezuela since the start of 2016, including one million who have left the country since November, the United Nations said yesterday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday accused Russia of violating peace agreements and vowed a tough response after two soldiers were killed in the war-torn east.

China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin yesterday hit back at US global economic dominance as they took the stage together at Russia’s showcase business forum.

The newly appointed Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is committed to achieving the goal of Indo-Bangla bilateral relations that was set by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman during the inception of Bangladesh.

A man was sent to jail on charges of raping a 12-year-old girl at Sherpur’s Sreebordi upazila on Wednesday. Locals said Akram Hossain, 40, raped the fourth grader inside a madrasa on Eid day. Hearing her scream, they rushed to the scene, caught Akram, and handed him over to police.

The Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Cabinet Division yesterday issued contradictory statements on whether Biman pilot Capt Fazal Mahmud was detained by immigration officials in Doha for not having his passport on him.

Because of low prices, Allam Hossain decided not to sell his paddy but rather wait for the situation to improve. However, as Eid was around the corner, he went out to the local market with 30kg of mangoes from his four trees.

A US green-card holder from Bangladesh was charged with illegally acquiring firearms as part of a plan to attack Times Square, one of mid-town Manhattan’s most crowded crossroads, federal officials said yesterday.