Most 14-year-old American schoolboys might be fixated on baseball, chasing girls and dodging their homework. Not Ethan Sonneborn. He's running for governor in Vermont.

Apparently not content with the suggestion of the government review committee of abolishing almost all quotas in civil service, quota reformists yesterday said a certain quota should be kept in place.

The Editors' Council yesterday expressed profound shock and sorrow at the sudden passing of its founding president, Golam Sarwar, also editor of Bangla daily Samakal.

A new unit will be set up in the information ministry to analyse and inform about social media contents so that Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) can go for measures against offensive contents.

At least seven people, including four children, were killed and 10 others injured as a bus collided head-on with a microbus carrying a bridal party in Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi yesterday morning.

Two alleged drug traders were killed in a “gunfight” with law enforcers in Cox's Bazar yesterday.

British police arrest a man on suspicion of terrorism offences after he drove a car into security barriers outside parliament and injured at least two people.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday found five Patuakhali men guilty of committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971 and sentenced them to death.

UN human rights experts yesterday urged Bangladesh to immediately release photographer Shahidul Alam, who had allegedly been tortured in custody.

Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque sees some progress with regards to the repatriation of Rohingyas although no date has been fixed yet for starting the process.

The first session of the 15th National Assembly ended yesterday after 328 members of the lower house of the parliament took oath following their election in the July 25 countrywide polls. Earlier, it was reported that 329 lawmakers would take oath but MNA Sahabzada Muhammad Mehboob Sultan from Jhang was unable to attend the session.

Iran yesterday unveiled a next generation short-range ballistic missile and vowed to further boost its capabilities, Iranian media said, at a time of rising tensions with the United States.

The death toll of an explosion at a weapons depot in northwestern Syria has risen to 69, mostly civilians including 17 children, a monitor said yesterday as search operations continued.

France plans to introduce a penalty system next year that would increase the costs of consumer goods with packaging made of non-recycled plastic, part of a pledge to use only recycled plastic nationwide by 2025, an environment ministry official said Sunday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday to discuss the Syrian and Ukraine conflicts, energy issues and other foreign policy issues, Berlin announced.

Nine people were killed and 30 injured in a blaze that broke out early yesterday at a hospice for the terminally ill near Taiwan's capital Taipei, fire officials said.

Egypt is yet to prosecute members of the security forces over a bloody 2013 crackdown on protesters that left hundreds dead, Human Rights Watch said yesterday, urging "justice" for the killings.

People of Chittagong could be using Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) this week as the authorities have finally been able to pump the imported LNG, on a ship anchored in the Bay, into the Matarbari reservoir in Moheshkhali of Cox's Bazar through an undersea pipeline.

Opposition chief whip Md Tajul Islam Choudhury passed away last night at a city hospital. He was 73.

Inspector General of Police Mohammad Javed Patwary yesterday said they did not ask anyone to take part in police action during the recent student protest as the force was capable of maintaining law and order under any situation.