Spain's far-right party Vox would enter parliament with 43-45 seats if an election was held today, giving conservative parties an absolute majority, a poll showed yesterday.

The presidents of China and the US have exchanged messages vowing to boost cooperation despite a bruising trade war on the 40th anniversary of the countries' diplomatic relations, Chinese state media reported.

A joint force led by the army yesterday recovered a US-made M4A1 assault rifle and 53 bullets from members of the United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) in Khagrachhari's remote Laxmichhari area, police say.

A 13-year-old girl has died by suicide following harassment by her stalkers in Jessore's Benapole, said police.

AMA Muhith yesterday said he would remain as the finance minister for another year, if Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wanted him to do so.

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud yesterday congratulated Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina on her party's victory in the Sunday's parliamentary polls.

A Nasa spacecraft set a new milestone Monday in cosmic exploration by entering orbit around an asteroid, Bennu, the smallest object ever to be circled by a human-made spaceship.

A British police probe into a triple stabbing at a Manchester railway station on New Year's Eve which injured three people is now being treated as "a terrorist investigation", the city's top officer said yesterday.

Nine people have been sued over the gang rape of a woman in Noakhali's Subarnachar upazila on Monday.

The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal yesterday expressed discontent as trial of Jamaat-e-Islami as a party did not begin even five years after completion of a probe over its role in 1971.

Jatiya Party Co-chairman GM Quader will act as its chairman in the absence of party's incumbent Chairman HM Ershad.

The capital's Malibagh neighbourhood turned violent yesterday as garments workers went on a rampage -- vandalising and setting fire to vehicles -- and clashed with police following the death of two girls, including a garment worker in a road accident in the area.

The Election Commission yesterday decided to hold re-elections in three polling centres of Brahmanbaria-2 on January 9, as the polls there were suspended on Sunday.

A Jubo League activist was killed in an attack allegedly by his rivals over previous enmity at Sitakunda in Chattogram yesterday.

A lion attacked and killed a young American woman who had just started working at the facility where it was kept, the center said Sunday.

Riot police deployed in key squares of Sudan's capital yesterday as protesters planned to march on President Omar al-Bashir's palace calling for him to "step down" following deadly anti-government protests.

A US judge who ruled earlier this month that Obamacare is unconstitutional has said the health care law can stand while his decision is appealed.

The death toll from a storm that struck the Philippines shortly after Christmas rose to 68 with the number of fatalities expected to climb even higher, civil defence officials said yesterday.

Thirty Russian children whose mothers are in prison in Iraqi for belonging to the Islamic State arrived Sunday in Moscow from Baghdad, Russian authorities said.

The Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday began counting ballots from a presidential election marked by delays and fears of violence and vote-rigging, straining hopes for its first-ever peaceful transfer of power.