London Mayor Sadiq Khan has urged Prime Minister Theresa May to delay Britain's departure from the European Union, warning time has run out to rework her withdrawal agreement.

Dutch prosecutors said yesterday that they are preparing to file criminal charges against Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell over suspected corruption in the attribution of Nigerian oil exploration rights in 2011.

Estonia's centre-left coalition is fighting for survival in a general election Sunday, challenged by its traditional liberal rival but also a far-right party boosted by a backlash from mostly rural regions in the Baltic eurozone state.

Mayor-elect of Dhaka North City Corporation Atiqul Islam called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Gono Bhaban yesterday evening.

Thirty-four Rohingya were found on a beach in Malaysia yesterday, police said, the first of the Muslim minority group thought to have arrived in the country by sea for almost a year.

The United States and North Korea yesterday promised further negotiations despite a spectacular failure to strike a nuclear deal at their Hanoi summit.

Pabitra Roy, who secured GPA-5 in PEC and JSC exams, spends six months of a year working at a brick kiln to pay for his studies as well as support his family.

Two alleged drug peddlers and three suspected robbers were killed in three separate “gunfights” with members of Border Guard Bangladesh and police in Cox's Bazar and Munshiganj yesterday.

Bangladesh cannot accept any more refugees from Myanmar, Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque told a UN Security Council meeting.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's International Affairs Adviser Gowher Rizvi has told Al Jazeera that Bangladesh is not a “one-party state”.

The Montreal-based UN aviation agency concealed for months a hack on its computers and allowed the malware to spread throughout the airline industry, Canada's public broadcaster reported Wednesday.

Branded a criminal by a former friend in Washington, then let down by his new friend Kim Jong Un in Vietnam, Donald Trump cut a lonely figure before returning home from North Korea nuclear talks yesterday.

A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer went missing after he was scheduled to be released from jail yesterday following a two-year prison sentence for state subversion charges, said rights activists.

Bangladesh has underscored the importance of geopolitics to improve global migration governance in the context of the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.

Two Saudi sisters marooned in Hong Kong after fleeing their family appealed to authorities not to deport them while they seek sanctuary in a third country as the clock ticked down yesterday on their permission to stay.

A Jubo League leader was shot dead and five others were injured allegedly by their rivals over upazila election in Jamalpur's Dewanganj upazila on Wednesday night.

Two suspected forest bandits and an alleged drug peddler were killed in two separate “gunfights” with Rab and BGB men in Satkhira and Cox's Bazar yesterday.

As of December last year, there were 2,66,118 loan defaulters in the country, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal informed parliament yesterday.

Director General of Press Institute of Bangladesh Shah Alamgir passed away yesterday at the age of 62.

Kurdish-led fighters yesterday readied for a final onslaught against jihadist fighters who have been defending the last patch of their "caliphate" in eastern Syria.