Qatar yesterday accused Saudi Arabia of a "flagrant violation" of the law after the kingdom's authorities arrested a Qatari returning

Air strikes killed at least 23 civilians including 10 children in a village held by the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.

US President Donald Trump will address the National Rifle Association (NRA) on Friday, the gun lobby announced, less than three months after a mass shooting at a high school in Florida sparked a grassroots campaign for gun control.

Suicide bombers stormed Libya's electoral commission in Tripoli yesterday, killing at least a dozen people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.

A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her co-villager in Bera municipality of Pabna on Tuesday evening.

The launch of Bangabandhu-1, the country's first commercial satellite, has been deferred once again on technical grounds, said officials related with the process.

On a makeshift stage in Israel's Ministry of Defense, a high-walled, heavily guarded complex in the heart of Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's show was about to begin.

Most visitors who want to see the boyhood home of eminent nineteenth-century social reformer, nationalist and Brahmo religious leader Ananda Mohan Bose in Jaysiddhi village in Kishoreganj's Itna upazila leave disappointed.

Seven million people suffer premature deaths due to household and outdoor air pollution every year around the globe, according to the World Health Organization.

United Nations Security Council has asked Myanmar to carry out a “proper investigation” into crimes against the Rohingya people by the military, ensure repatriation in line with international standards, sign an agreement quickly with UN agencies and give them unconditional access.

Two persons died and another fell sick after “inhaling poisonous gas” at a rawhide processing plant in the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate in Hemayetpur yesterday evening.

Bangladesh had the second largest relative increase in military spending between 2008 and 2017 according to the arms watchdog Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed a new interior minister yesterday after suffering a blow with the resignation of Amber Rudd for having misled lawmakers over deportation targets for illegal immigrants.

Law Commission Chairman ABM Khairul Haque has called for changes to the laws to curb road accidents.

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland will travel to Bangladesh on May 3-6 to address the 45th Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers.

A minor boy was “strangled to death” allegedly by a youth in Keraniganj of Dhaka yesterday, hours after he was kidnapped, police said.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wound up a three-day Middle East trip yesterday without having met any Palestinian, but nevertheless urged their leadership to rejoin the peace process.

The government has decided to admit all students to colleges on the basis of merit, doing away with the previous allocation of 11 percent seats for quota holders.

Police recovered the bodies of a mother and her two daughters from a government quarters near Mirpur Bangla College in the capital yesterday evening.

Nepal and Bangladesh will be connected via a tunnel to promote transnational road link, reports The Kathmandu Post quoting Matrika Prasad Yadav, Nepalese minister for industry, commerce and supply.