Yemen's government yesterday said it was ready to re-start peace talks with Huthi rebels, as international pressure to end the years-long conflict intensifies.

The recently passed Digital Security Act would only protect the authorities while gagging free speech, speakers told a discussion yesterday.

At least 130 Jatiya Oikyafront, BNP and Jamaat-Shibir leaders and activists have been arrested across the country in last two days since Tuesday in connection with protests against the verdict in the Zia Charitable Trust graft case.

The Dhaka University authorities yesterday terminated three teachers -- two for not joining work at the end of their study leave and one for “absenting” from academic activities.

Three people, including two suspected drug peddlers, were killed in separate “gunfights” with police in Kushtia and Mymensingh early yesterday.

Pakistan's Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother facing execution for blasphemy, in a landmark case which incites deadly violence and reaches as far as the Vatican.

The High Court directs the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to take appropriate action against the unruly transport workers who are responsible for the tragic deaths of three infants and chaotic activities during the recent 48-hour road transport strike across the country.

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and then dismembered as part of a premeditated plan, Turkey's chief prosecutor said yesterday, making details of the murder public for the first time.

President Abdul Hamid promulgates the ordinance of the amendment to the Representation of the People Order (RPO) with provision of using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the elections.

Renowned Hong Kong author Louis Cha, whose epic martial arts thrillers inspired numerous films and sold some 300 million copies worldwide, has died aged 94.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing an alleged scheme to pay women to accuse Russia collusion probe chief Robert Mueller of sexual harassment in a bid to discredit him, his office said Tuesday.

Philippine rescuers yesterday used hand tools in a desperate search for around 20 people buried in a landslide unleashed by Typhoon Yutu, as the powerful storm's toll rose to nine.

France has launched a nationwide probe into incidents of babies being born with either missing or malformed arms after abnormal rates of deformations were detected in several regions of the country, a top public health official said yesterday.

India yesterday inaugurated the world's tallest statue, a $400-million effigy of independence hero Vallabhbhai Patel that towers nearly twice the height of New York's Statue of Liberty.

Twenty-two-year-old Abu Taleb underwent an operation in a private hospital in the port city two days after being injured in a road accident at Chakaria upazila in Cox's Bazar on September 3. Due to post operative complications, Taleb required intensive care support. The hospital, however, lacked this facility.

Villagers beat up a man and handed him over to the police yesterday after he allegedly raped two fifth graders on Friday in Badarganj upazila of Rangpur.

With the election a couple of months away, the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) yesterday approved 24 development projects worth Tk 24,740 crore, an apparent move to appease voters.

Annual per capita remittance from the male migrants has fallen by 11 percent in 2017 compared to that in 2014, says a new study.

A large number of policemen will be deployed across the country from the day the election schedule is announced.

Dozens of students and their family members demonstrated in front of the capital's Central Hospital yesterday, demanding justice for a fourth grader who died for what her relatives said was wrong treatment at the hospital.