Along a quiet residential street on the outer edges of Beijing, a yellow and black cube about the size of a small washing machine trundles leisurely to its destination.

A 10-year-old boy died yesterday allegedly after another boy of the same age struck him with a brick in Dhaka's Khilgaon area.

President Donald Trump yesterday said he accepts that Russia sought to influence the 2016 US election, and that he misspoke by appearing to accept Vladimir Putin's denials over those of his own intelligence chiefs.

The number of migrants arriving in Spain by boat is surging, the UN said yesterday, and it has now surpassed Italy as the top destination for Mediterranean crossings.

NATO's Afghanistan mission denied Monday reports that its commander has said America is ready to join direct talks with the Taliban.

Five marines were killed and one injured when a South Korean military helicopter crashed on Tuesday at a marine base in the country's southeast, the defence ministry said.

The United Nations yesterday voiced alarm at Australia's decision to "actively and indefinitely separate" the family of a recognised refugee in the country by deporting her husband to Sri Lanka.

The United Kingdom has said it will continue engaging closely with Bangladesh to support freedom of expression and other democratic freedoms and stress the long-term importance to its development of free, fair, inclusive and peaceful elections.

A man was killed in a mob beating early yesterday after he allegedly raped and killed a woman in Jessore.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday found four Moulvibazar men guilty of committing genocide during the Liberation War and handed down death penalties to all of them.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said if the Rohingyas were not safely repatriated soon, they would become easy targets of international terrorist groups that always look for new recruits.

The construction cost per kilometre of bridges, roads, flyovers, highways and elevated expressways in Bangladesh is four to five times higher than any other country in the world, claimed Nagorik Oikya, a political platform.

An assistant professor of Chittagong University has said he left the campus after getting continuous threat from Bangladesh Chhatra League activists over his Facebook remarks on quota reform.

Two suspected drug peddlers were killed in “gunfights” with police in Kushtia and Mymensingh early yesterday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has sued 13 people, including nine doctors and employees of Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH), for embezzling Tk 8.61 crore of the hospital's fund and awarding a tender of Tk 9.54 crore without proper procedures.

At least four people, including three Rohingyas, were killed, and 10 others injured, in a road crash in Ukhia upazila on the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf highway yesterday.

Sheets of corrugated iron tied to bamboo poles make the roofs and the walls on one particular side. The remaining sides are left open. The floor is left in its natural state with parts of it growing clusters of grass. Benches, strewn inside the structure, are the only indication that this building is the Purba Satunama Aminpara govt primary school.

Most secondary school students use mobile phones, computers and have access to social media and about 55 percent of them use Facebook as their medium for getting news, according to a survey.

India has roped in international expertise to prevent a major oil spill from a stranded cargo ship that caught fire in the Bay of Bengal close to the Sundarbans even as the government yesterday said a “minor oil leakage” took place from the vessel.

An Istanbul court yesterday acquitted one of Turkey's most prominent political journalists in a long-running case on espionage charges dating back to an arms interception on the Syrian border in 2014.