US-backed forces in eastern Syria yesterday screened and treated truckloads of suspected jihadists and relatives who left a village where the Islamic State group's "caliphate" is making its last stand.

Australian Cardinal George Pell, one of Pope Francis' closest advisors, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two choirboys, becoming the most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sex crimes.

Two separate probe committees, formed by National Human Rights Commission and the Ministry of Home Affairs, to investigate the BGB firing incident in Thakurgaon ended their two-day visit to the district on Tuesday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump both arrived in Vietnam yesterday, the eve of their second summit at which they will tackle how to implement a North Korean pledge to give up its nuclear weapons.

Only two doctors have been tending to patients round the clock for the last three months at the 50-bed Birganj Upazila Health Complex in Dinajpur.

United States Vice President Mike Pence passed on a message from Donald Trump to Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido yesterday, telling him "we are with you 100 percent."

A ninth grader was allegedly raped by her neighbour in a village of Jashore's Jhikargachha upazila on Sunday night.

An SSC examinee suffered severe burns in an acid attack allegedly over a land dispute at Debidanga Jhargaon village in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila on Sunday night.

Australian fashion brands have cared more for their clothes than the people making those, reveals a new report.

With a heavy heart, the nation yesterday observed the 10th anniversary of the Pilkhana carnage that left 74 people, including 57 army officers, dead.

Only the Awami League candidate conducted electioneering at full throttle during the campaign of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral by-polls which officially ends tonight, while contenders from other parties were almost absent.

A “rebel” faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League and quota reformists yesterday announced their panels to contest the upcoming Dhaka University Central Students' Union election.

Four alleged members of a Sundarban-based robber gang were killed yesterday in a “gunfight” with Rab in Chandpai range of the forest in Satkhira, Rab said.

Civil society groups monitoring Nigeria's presidential and parliamentary election said yesterday that 39 people have been killed in violence linked to the vote.

The father of London teenager Shamima Begum, who married an Islamic State group militant in Syria, insisted in an interview with AFP yesterday that Britain must take her back before deciding any punishment.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office said in a sentencing memo released Saturday that President Donald Trump's former campaign director Paul Manafort was a "bold" criminal who "repeatedly and brazenly" broke the law.

Sales at Kim Chang-bae's hardware shop in South Korea rise every year thanks to Camp Humphreys, an enormous US military base he is frightened will close in the wake of the summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sharply criticised his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after the recent execution of nine people in Egypt, saying he refused to talk to "someone like him".

Thousands of protesters in the Gaza Strip yesterday called on Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to resign after attempts to pressure his rival Hamas with financial cuts in the impoverished enclave.

After coming to Dhaka from Noakhali when he was only 10 years old, Abdul Mannan engaged himself in many an odd job -- from working at restaurants to construction sites -- to save money for himself. He was able to save Tk 10 lakhs, with which he opened up a stationary shop 16 years ago.