A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday started the trial of the sensational Holey Artisan Café terror attack case with recording the complainant's testimony.

Australia's under-pressure government yesterday received a double blow from the United Nations and a leading doctors' group over harsh treatment of refugees on off-shore island camps.

A 50-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death over non-payment of a loan in Pabna's Sujanagar yesterday.

A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday started the trial of the sensational case filed over the terror attack on Holey Artisan Café in the capital's Gulshan area in July 2016 with recording of the complainant's testimony.

Nasa's first-ever mission designed to visit an asteroid and return a sample of its dust back to Earth arrived yesterday at its destination, Bennu, two years after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

“It has now reached the point where it seems as though my father never existed.”

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina thanked her cabinet colleagues for their cooperation during the last cabinet meeting of the incumbent government yesterday.

The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, the United Nations warned yesterday as nations gathered in Poland to chart a way for mankind to avert runaway global warming.

SM Shahjada Saju, who came into the limelight after getting the Awami League nomination for Patuakhali-3, met his uncle Chief Election Commissioner Nurul Huda at the latter's office yesterday evening.

Unidentified criminals hacked a local leader of Swechchasebak League to death in Chattogram's Patiya upazila last night.

A fugitive accused of drug peddling was killed in an alleged gunfight with Rab at Shahidnagar area in Narayanganj yesterday.

China and the United States have agreed to halt additional tariffs as both nations engage in new trade negotiations with the goal of reaching an agreement within 90 days, the White House said on Saturday after President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held high-stakes talks in Argentina.

Malawi has passed a law that will ban politicians using cash payments and other incentives to buy support ahead of key polls due in May next year.

Flags flew at half-staff across the United States on Saturday as Americans prepared for a week of solemn tributes to George HW Bush, in his home state of Texas and in the US Capitol, a day after the former president died at age 94.

Iran said yesterday its missile programme is defensive and not in breach of UN resolutions, the state news agency IRNA said, following a US allegation that Tehran had carried out a new missile test.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded Saturday that Saudi Arabia extradite suspects in the killing in Istanbul of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, taking to task the kingdom's crown prince who was basking in his quick return to the world stage at the G20.

A day after the mayhem by two factions of Tabligh Jamaat at Tongi Maidan, police yesterday took control of the Ijtema venue and prevented all from entering the ground.

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday that Russia tried to meddle in the US midterm elections last month -- just as it did in the 2016 vote that brought President Donald Trump to power.

Iran yesterday said it would continue missile tests to build up its defences and denied this was in breach of UN resolutions following US allegations that Tehran had tested a new missile capable of carrying multiple warheads.

Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) Chairman Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, also known as Santu Larma, yesterday said the upcoming parliamentary election meant little to the country's indigenous people because of bitter experiences in the past.