A visa row between China and host nation Nauru almost derailed the Pacific's largest annual diplomatic summit, it emerged yesterday, exposing sensitivities about Beijing's rising influence in the region.

Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor sought the death penalty against prominent cleric Sheikh Salman al-Awda at the start of his trial yesterday in Riyadh, a year after his arrest, media said.

Spain's first trial linked to thousands of suspected cases of babies stolen from their mothers during the Franco era resumed at a Madrid court yesterday, decades after the scandal broke.

A vigilance team of transport owners and workers stops operation of all buses of Doyel Paribahan for plying on Gulistan-Meghna Ghat (Comilla) route without valid documents.

A typhoon that forecasters warned could be the strongest to hit Japan in 25 years barrelled directly towards the western part of the country yesterday, sparking warnings of violent winds and prompting rail operators to scrap services.

The Rapid Action Battalion on Sunday arrested six alleged members of a gold smuggling gang with 120 gold bars, weighing around 14kg, on two buses on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Narsingdi.

Three Rohingya men, in critical condition, were rescued from a cave in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar yesterday.

Many know about the heartbreaking story of Birangana Rama Chowdhury's life. In May 1971, she was brutally tortured and violated by the Pak bahini;

A Natore lawmaker has boasted that he rode his motorcycle for around 13 years without licence and never “had any accident”.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has once again summoned the BNP chairperson's former adviser Mosaddek Ali Falu and eight other businesspersons in connection with allegations of money laundering and acquiring wealth beyond the known sources of income.

The death of 15-year-old Sajib, a worker at the Rampal Power Plant site, brought attention to an issue that went previously unnoticed -- the lack of safety gears and the unsafe conditions that the plant workers have to face.

Two Reuters journalists accused of breaching Myanmar's state secrets law while reporting on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims were jailed for seven years yesterday, fuelling international outrage a week after the army was accused of genocide.

The government has decided to ensure strict enforcement of traffic rules on the road stretching from Zero Point to Jahangir Gate on a month-long pilot basis, starting from tomorrow.

Deaths in road crashes continue as 11 more people lost their lives in seven accidents in 24 hours since Sunday night.

The Rapid Action Battalion on Sunday arrested six alleged members of a gold smuggling gang with 120 gold bars, weighing around 14kg, on two buses on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Narsingdi.

Three Rohingya men, in critical condition, were rescued from a cave in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar yesterday.

Within 24 hours ending yesterday evening, 54 people have been hospitalised with dengue in Dhaka and experts said more people could be infected if measures were not taken immediately.

The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) is set to submit a charge sheet before a Dhaka court this week, accusing six people over the death of two college students in a road crash in the city's Kurmitola area, a DB official said yesterday.

One of the oldest villages in the Nile Delta has been discovered after archaeologists unearthed artefacts dating to the fifth millennium BC, Egypt's antiquities ministry has said.

Kamona Rani, a resident of Kalihati of Tangail, was supposed to come to Dhaka yesterday to celebrate her son Uttam Kumar Sarkar's 33rd birthday.