The fire service yesterday recovered bodies of four members of a family who went missing after a boat capsized in the Buriganga on Friday night.

Leader of the Opposition and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad is slowly recovering at a hospital in Singapore.

A Peruvian passenger bus plunged into a river bed on Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 30, rescue services said.

The United States has delayed its plan to send asylum seekers back to Mexico while their claims are processed, as the Mexican government said Friday it "disagrees" with the policy.

Pope Francis will meet young student priests yesterday on the fourth day of his visit to Panama for World Youth Day celebrations, a day after the clergy sex abuse scandal haunting his papacy returned to the spotlight.

Iran has accused France of being a destabilising force in the region after its foreign minister threatened new sanctions against Tehran over its missile programme.

Today is the death anniversary of former finance minister and Awami League leader Shah AMS Kibria, who was killed in a grisly attack 14 years ago.

Police yesterday recovered the bullet-hit body of a rape accused from an orchard in Baltala village of Jhalakathi's Kathalia upazila.

The United Nations' human rights office said yesterday a three-member team of international experts would conduct an inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, confirming a Reuters report.

The annual sports day celebration at Dhaka Shiksha Board Laboratory School and College turned tragic as a gas cylinder explosion on the campus premises left a balloon vendor dead and two students injured yesterday.

Shaila, 14, came out of the garment factory she works for in the capital's Mohammadpur Beri Bandh area and saw her ex-boyfriend Billal, employed at the same RMG unit, waiting outside.

Jahangirnagar University graduate Shehabul Munir, who joined demonstrations for safe roads last year, died yesterday after being hit by a lorry driving on the wrong side of the road.

India's first Bangalee president Pranab Mukherjee was yesterday chosen for the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honour, by President Ram Nath Kovind.

Law enforcers have claimed arrest of another fugitive of the Holey Artisan Bakery attack case from the northern district of Chapainawabganj. He is the last fugitive in the Holey Artisan case.

Military operations against the Islamic State group in Syria are wrapping up and the last pockets of the jihadists' self-proclaimed "caliphate" will be flushed out within a month, a top commander said.

Miners yesterday closed in on a toddler who fell in a well on January 13 in southern Spain, keeping the country on tenterhooks with a rescue operation fraught with glitches.

Floods and landslides in Indonesia have killed at least 59 people, the government said yesterday, after heavy rain pounded Sulawesi island and forced thousands to flee their homes.

Senior Nato and Russian officials made no progress yesterday in talks on saving the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, raising the spectre of a renewed arms race in Europe.

Boko Haram fighters attacked three military bases in northeast Nigeria, overrunning two where they carted away weapons, military and civilian sources told AFP yesterday.

Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday renewed his defence of the social network's business, arguing that targeting ads based on interests was different from selling people's data.