Even behind bars, Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will secure his leftist party's nomination Saturday and continue to overshadow more likely candidates in the country's most unpredictable presidential election for decades.

Students involved in the movement for safe roads yesterday turned down Chhatra League's offer for a joint procession to press home their demands.

A chemistry teacher allegedly threw acid on a student at a class room of Habiganj Technical School and College yesterday morning.

Over the last couple of days, some rumours have been spread apparently to undermine the peaceful student movement for road safety or to make it violent.

Transport owners say bus services will remain suspended indefinitely across the country citing safety reasons due to the ongoing student movement demanding safe roads.

An assistant superintendent of police in Chittagong was withdrawn for allegedly verbally abusing a traffic sergeant who stopped his vehicle while wrong-way driving on Chittagong-Cox's Bazar Highway around noon yesterday.

A suspected Russian spy worked at the US embassy in Moscow for a decade before being quietly dismissed last year, reports said Thursday.

Twenty-one people were killed when their boat capsized in an area wracked by deadly attacks blamed on cattle thieves in northern Nigeria, the emergency services said yesterday.

British Prime Minister Theresa May heads to President Emmanuel Macron's "summer Elysee Palace" on the Mediterranean coast yesterday, seeking to soften resistance to a Brexit plan which has upended her government while failing to win over sceptical EU negotiators.

It's an incongruous sight, a woman in a salmon pink hijab standing on a Massachusetts traffic median, waving at oncoming cars and asking perfect strangers to vote her into Congress.

Bangladesh Bank is expected to get back around $29 million of its heisted reserve from the Philippines soon as a Philippines court has already delivered a verdict in favour of the central bank.

Despite a century of scientific scrutiny, the 5000-year old Neolithic monument in southern England known as Stonehenge has yielded few secrets about the people buried amidst its ring of towering rocks.

Pakistan's two former dominant political parties said on Thursday they would join forces to field their own candidate for prime minister in parliament, challenging former cricket star Imran Khan, whose party won last week's general election.

As debate rages over Assam NRC and international media take note of over 4 million people who are at risk of losing citizenship, Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh Rajnath Singh slammed what he called attempts at fear-mongering and disrupting communal harmony.

Burqa-clad suicide bombers yesterday struck a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan as it was crowded with worshippers for weekly prayers, killing at least 29 people and wounding more than 80 in the latest attack on the minority.

BNP grassroots leaders have suggested that party's high-ups will finalise a strategy of movement to release Khaleda Zia from jail. Many of them have also proposed cutting ties with Jamaat-e-Islami, BNP insiders said.

A few yards from his shanty, Naser sits with some fine rice, oil, lentil, several toiletries, utensils and even some over-the-counter medicines. The everyday essentials given to Rohingya refugees by some international donor agencies are in good quality.

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali is expected to go to Myanmar on August 9 to see for himself whether a conducive environment has been created in Rakhine for the safe return of forcibly displaced Rohingyas.

The body of a UNHCR official working in Cox's Bazar was recovered from Moheshkhali upazila's Sonadia point yesterday, three days after he had gone missing.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam said he does not see any reason for Bangladesh to be worried about Assam's National Register of Citizens (NRC) and that there is no scope for doing politics over the matter.