Hundreds of Mexico soccer fans danced and cheered outside the South Korean embassy in Mexico City on Wednesday, grateful after the Asian country's victory over Germany guaranteed the national team a spot in the knock-out stages of the World Cup.

The Kotka beach in the Sundarbans is mostly empty apart from the plastic bottles and trash that wash ashore. Imagine the shock of forest guards who stumbled upon the rotting carcass of a 40-foot whale while patrolling the beach in August.

Small drug peddlers are being arrested and shot dead in the ongoing anti-narcotics drive while the godfathers are getting away scot free, said speakers at a seminar in the city.

A Rohingya child in no-man's land was wounded when Border Guard Police (BGP) of Myanmar opened fire from its territory along Tambru border in Bandarban's Naikhyangchhari upazila yesterday.

It was around 7:30am on Tuesday, barely half an hour before the start of voting in the Gazipur City Corporation election.

The USA has commended the Khulna and Gazipur city polls for being participatory and having witnessed lower level of violence, but voiced concern over reports of election irregularities, including stuffing of ballot boxes and intimidation of political players and polling agents, before the end of voting.

As part of JMB's plan to kill writer Shahjahan Bachchu, several members of the militant outfit rented a house in his neighbourhood months before shooting him dead, police said yesterday.

Bangladeshi nationals' deposits in Swiss banks dropped 27 percent year-on-year in 2017 to 481.32 million Swiss francs or Tk 4,064 crore.

Tens of millions of Indonesians yesterday voted in regional elections seen as a gauge of President Joko Widodo's prospects for re-election next year in the world's third biggest democracy.

The investigation into the assassination of the North Korean leader's half-brother was "shoddy" and "lopsided", a Malaysian court heard yesterday as the trial resumed of two women accused of the murder.

A football fan in Rajshahi passed away after he suffered from a heart attack while celebrating Marcos Rojo's 86th minute score against Nigeria that advanced Argentina to Round 16 of the World Cup in Russia's Saint Petersburg yesterday.

A vast trove of items seized in raids on properties linked to Malaysia's scandal-mired former leader, including cash, jewellery and luxury handbags, are worth up to $273 million, police said yesterday.

A bird's nest in an Ottawa park steps from parliament on Tuesday came close to derailing preparations for one of Canada's largest urban outdoor music festivals.

Two alleged drug peddlers were killed in what police claimed was a gunfight in Bagmara area in the city early yesterday, hours after their arrest amid the ongoing anti-narcotics drive.

The BNP has kept trust in incumbent Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury and nominated him to contest the Sylhet City Corporation polls scheduled to be held on July 30.

A senior Myanmar official has told Western diplomats that a proposal to review a citizenship law that effectively renders most Rohingya Muslims stateless could not be implemented, five people present at the meeting in Denmark in early June told Reuters.

A parliamentary body yesterday recommended raising the maximum age for joining the civil service to 35 from 30.

A 12-year-old girl was killed by burglars at her house on Sayed Shah Lane in Chittagong city yesterday morning.

Here comes good news for teachers of non-MPO educational institutions after nine years.

The Jatiya Sangsad yesterday passed tax measures for the next fiscal year with some changes in VAT and tariff rates, aiming to boost the ICT sector and promote local industries.