The body of a 25-year-old was found with bullet wounds in Shariatpur Sadar upazila yesterday morning, two days after plainclothes men identifying as detectives allegedly picked him up from his house.

British Prime Minister Theresa May's government imploded yesterday as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson followed Brexit minister David Davis in resigning over her masterplan for Britain's future outside the EU.

Duduzane Zuma, the son of scandal-plagued former South African president Jacob Zuma, will face charges relating to allegations of corruption, his lawyer said yesterday.

European leaders say they no longer have any illusions about Donald Trump as they welcome the US president at a Nato summit this week, but they fear his "America first" agenda may force a moment of reckoning that works to no-one's benefit.

Rescuers in Thailand yesterday prepared to lift a sunken tourist boat and said 15 people are still missing after the craft capsized off the coast of Phuket island, killing at least 41 people.

Iran protested against the Netherlands' expulsion of two of its diplomats yesterday and threatened to retaliate for the "unfriendly and destructive move".

One hundred hot air balloons floated over Lithuania's second city of Kaunas on Saturday to mark 100 years of the Baltic state's independence.

The BNP will observe a seven-hour token hunger strike at Mohanagar Natya Mancha in the capital today protesting the Supreme Court order upholding its stay on bail granted by the High Court to Khaleda Zia in a murder case filed in Comilla.

The death toll from torrential rain and landslides in western Japan rose to 81 people yesterday, with dozens still missing after more than 2,000, temporarily stranded in the city of Kurashiki, were rescued.

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee has expressed concern that a memorandum of understanding signed in June between the UN and Myanmar has been kept secret.

Rights activists yesterday urged the government to distribute its khas land (government owned fallow land) to the poor and the marginalised -- especially to people from the ethnic minorities and those who reside in chars.

The near 40-year quest for an AIDS vaccine received a hopeful boost yesterday when scientists announced that a trial drug triggered an immune response in humans and shielded monkeys from infection.

Spain's new leader Pedro Sanchez on Monday meets separatist Catalan president Quim Torra for the first time in a bid to kickstart dialogue after the region's failed attempt at secession which sparked the country's worst crisis in decades.

Pope Francis yesterday voiced concern that Christians will disappear from the Middle East amid "murderous indifference" as war rages on.

A suspected drug peddler was killed and two others were injured in separate incidents of reported gunfights in Narail, Rajshahi and Lalmonirhat yesterday.

Conditions are "perfect" to evacuate a young football team from a flooded Thai cave in the coming days before fresh rains and a possible rise in carbon dioxide further imperil the group, the rescue mission chief said yesterday.

What do you do when this year's Nobel Literature Prize, the world's most prestigious accolade of its kind, is postponed because of a sexual assault scandal?

At least 10 people, including three policemen, were injured in a clash between two rival groups over formation of an internal committee at Terabazar Jamia Siddiquia Madrasa in the town yesterday.

The walls of the school were adorned with pictures of the victims of the militant attack at Holey Artisan Bakery.

To protect topsoil and the environment, the government must immediately spearhead a campaign for using alternatives of conventional bricks, said experts at a seminar in the capital yesterday.