A Moscow court yesterday convicted a retired Norwegian border guard who was charged with spying on Russian nuclear submarines and sentenced him to 14 years in prison.

Chinese authorities have seized 7.5 tonnes of ivory -- 2,748 elephant tusks -- in one of the biggest busts in recent years as the country cracks down on the sale of illegal wildlife products.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday termed ‘baseless’ different media reports on their chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release on parole saying that there has been no decision yet in this regard.

An entire three-storey building was blown apart yesterday as Pakistani security forces detonated a huge amount of explosives hidden inside, after a bloody, hours-long gun battle with militants holed up in a crowded city.

The historic Mujibnagar Day is being observed today marking the formation of Bangladesh's first government that led the Liberation War in 1971.

Popular singer Subir Nandi was put on life support at the capital's Combined Military Hospi-tal after he suffered a heart attack.

Police arrested four people in connection with physically assaulting a contractor whose appeal for justice in a Facebook post went viral following the torture in Gulshan area on April 10.

The world's largest aircraft took off over the Mojave Desert in California on Saturday, the first flight for the carbon-composite plane built by Stratolaunch Systems Corp, started by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, as the company enters the lucrative private space market.

Ecuadoran President Lenin Moreno on Sunday defended his decision to overturn Julian Assange's asylum status, claiming in an interview with the Guardian newspaper that the WikiLeaks founder had tried to set up a "centre for spying" in Ecuador's London embassy.

A local BNP leader was stabbed to death allegedly by a group of unidentified miscreants in Upashahar area of Bogura town on Sunday night.

An elderly farmer was beaten to death allegedly over a debt of only Tk 100 in Gafargaon upazila of Mymensingh on Sunday.

The once impressive structure of Hemnagar Zamindar Bari in Tangail's Gopalpur upazila is falling apart due to lack of proper maintenance.

Workers of state-owned jute mills in different districts enforced a 96-hour work abstention since 8:00am yesterday to press home their nine-point demand, which includes payment of outstanding wages.

A colossal fire swept through the famed Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris yesterday, causing a spire to collapse and threatening to destroy the entire masterpiece and its precious artworks.

The High Court yesterday did not allow a religious organisation to file a petition seeking to observe the holy Shab-e-barat on an earlier date.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin yesterday began a series of meetings with representatives of political parties voted into parliament in last week's elections ahead of choosing who will form the next government.

Toppled Malaysian leader Najib Razak returned to court for the second day of his high-profile corruption trial yesterday, with the former premier accused of plundering large sums from scandal-hit state fund 1MDB.

Police have detained 17 more suspects connected to a chemical blast in eastern China last month which killed 78 and left hundreds injured, local authorities said yesterday.

A young Belgian man arrested at the weekend has been charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group, Belgian federal prosecutors said yesterday.

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima power plant yesterday began removing atomic fuel from inside a building housing one of the reactors that melted down in 2011.