French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday hailed as “exemplary” hundreds of firefighters who saved Notre-Dame in the devastating blaze, as efforts intensified to ensure there was no further damage to the still fragile cathedral.

A Chapainawabganj court yesterday awarded five men with death penalty for raping and killing a girl in 2015.

An ethics court yesterday found Nigeria’s former chief justice guilty of corruption and banned him from office for 10 years in a case the opposition said was politically motivated.

The UN’s Libya envoy yesterday warned of “a widening conflagration” in the North African country, saying international divisions had encouraged strongman Khalifa Haftar to launch his assault on Tripoli.

A vast field of towering white poppies sways gently in the breeze, silky petals sometimes tumbling to the ground, a visible marker of the

A man was arrested Wednesday night after entering St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York carrying two cans of gasoline, lighter fluid and

China plans to launch an ambitious asteroid exploration mission and has invited collaborators to put their experiments on the probes, space agency officials said yesterday.

A nature lover is working hard to preserve rare varieties of orchids that bloom on the hills in Khagrachhari.

A giant lion with enormous fangs that roamed the Kenyan savannah more than 20 million years ago was one of the largest ever meat-eating mammals, researchers said yesterday.

A massive fire swept through Malibagh kitchen market yesterday morning, burning down some 230 shops.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said his ministry has no information about whether Khaleda Zia is going to London.

Nusrat Jahan Rafi is a prime and tragic example of a girl, who spoke up against gender-based violence and met with even more violence, UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh Mia Seppo said yesterday.

The Mujibnagar Day was observed through different programmes yesterday, recalling significant memories of the first government of Bangladesh.

US President Donald Trump's administration has issued an order that could keep some asylum seekers in jail for months or years as they wait for their cases to be heard, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

A woman was strangled and then her body set on fire by her husband in the capital's South Mugda yesterday, police said

A Chinese health activist has been detained for more than a month, her husband said yesterday, after she participated in a protest over faulty vaccines -- a re-occurring issue in China.

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar held unannounced talks with acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan Tuesday amid tensions over Ankara's plans to buy a Russian missile defense system and its threat to attack Kurdish fighters in Syria.

In the tiny village of Nagoro, deep in the mountains of western Japan, the wind howls down a deserted street with not a living soul to be seen.

The BGMEA building will be knocked down within the next three months as it has already been sealed-off since Tuesday, Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim said yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will begin a three-day visit to Brunei Darussalam on Sunday to encourage the country to invest in Bangladesh and to hire more trained Bangladeshis.