Soldiers have thwarted another Boko Haram attack on an army base in northeast Nigeria, the latest in a series of offensives against military targets in the remote region.

As Prime Minister Theresa May clings to power and tries to stop her party splitting over Brexit, she is getting support from an unexpected and highly influential quarter -- the Daily Mail.

Brazil's far-right presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro underwent surgery for complications from a stab wound he suffered while campaigning, doctors said.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez yesterday denied allegations he plagiarised his doctoral thesis as he battles a raft of problems in a week that has seen him lose his health minister over similar reports of academic irregularities.

Like the “No helmet, no fuel” move by Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Chittagong Metropolitan Police has imposed a ban on motorcyclists, including policemen, entering or exiting the CMP headquarters without helmets on.

A “settlement” has been reached over an alleged rape in Thakurgaon through village arbitration that ordered the “rapist” to pay the victim's family Tk 1.15 lakh in compensation.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order allowing punitive sanctions on foreigners who interfere in US elections, two years after Russia allegedly meddled in his favor in the presidential campaign.

Rapid Action Battalion on Wednesday arrested again the driver of a bus that killed 13-month-old Akifa Yasmin on August 28.

Rights defenders are in the most precarious condition now, Sultana Kamal said yesterday.

Chinese Consul General in Kolkata Ma Zhanwu has said his country is mooting a bullet train service between Kunming and Kolkata, traversing through Myanmar and Bangladesh.

A Dhaka court yesterday fixed September 20 to deliver an order on whether the trial proceedings in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case would continue in the absence of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has said the decision by the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) offers real hope for accountability for the crimes committed against Rohingyas in Myanmar.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the upcoming Bangladesh parliamentary polls would be held like the elections in other democratic countries and there was no scope of going beyond the constitution.

At least nine blank shots were fired from the convoy of Sheikh Anny Rahman, who wants to contest the upcoming national polls with Awami League nomination, in Pirojpur town on Tuesday night.

At least six people died, and four others injured, in separate road accidents on the Dhaka-Chittagong and Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highways yesterday. One of the accidents involved a slow vehicle, which are banned from plying on highways.

The UN began work inside Myanmar's violence-torn northern Rakhine state yesterday, the first time its agencies have been granted permission to operate there since more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled the area last year.

The long-drawn-out trial of the August 21 grenade attack cases is likely to end next week as a Dhaka court has asked the prosecution and defence counsels to complete their closing arguments on legal points within two days.

Police yesterday pressed charges against five operatives of outlawed Neo JMB (Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh) in connection with the Sholakia attack in Kishoreganj, more than two years after the militant strike left four including a suspect dead.

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced plans Tuesday to visit Macedonia, ahead of a referendum that could end a years-long spat with Greece over the country's name and pave the way for it to join Nato.

A Hungarian man was sentenced to life in prison yesterday after a court found him guilty of detonating a bomb in Budapest in 2016 that seriously injured two police officers.