People who suffer a sudden, major financial loss in mid-life may face a 50 percent higher risk of dying within the next 20 years, said the first long-term study of its kind yesterday.

A bitter feud that has rocked Singapore founding leader Lee Kuan Yew's family flared anew yesterday when his younger children criticised a ministerial committee's findings about a house at the centre of the row.

A Moroccan accomplice of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind of the deadly 2015 Islamic State attacks in Paris, yesterday went on trial in Poland accused of belonging to the terror group, local media reported.

Regional lawmakers yesterday voted to cancel direct elections in Russia's fourth-largest city, a move condemned by the mayor, a critic of President Vladimir Putin.

Six miners were killed in South Africa's northern province of Limpopo when a suspected petrol bomb was thrown into their bus, police said yesterday, adding no motive was known for the attack.

The corruption verdict and sentencing of South Korea's ousted ex-president Park Geun-hye will be televised live, a Seoul court said yesterday, in a case that could see her jailed for up to 30 years.

The investigation committee of Beauty Akhter rape and murder has suggested taking departmental action against the first investigation officer of rape and abduction case of the girl for negligence in dealing with the lawsuit.

When an elephant calf fell down from a 150 feet high hill on March 24, at Khaleque'r Ghona of Sharafbhata union under Rangunia upazila, other elephants in its herd frantically tried to pull it back up and take it along with them.

The government has taken an around Tk 60-crore special project to highlight its development works before the rural people eyeing the next general elections.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday ordered the withdrawal of rules punishing journalists held to be responsible for distributing "fake news", giving no reason for the change, less than 24 hours after the original announcement.

Police will strictly monitor Facebook and other social media platforms ahead of Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bangla calendar, to avoid any untoward incident.

The constitution's promise of establishing rule of law in the country is not being kept, said legal experts at a discussion yesterday.

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has expressed concern about repeated reports of shrinking space for human rights defenders, including journalists, trade union activists, civil society activists, and for dissenting voices in general.

A passenger lost his right arm after it was sandwiched between two speeding buses trying to overtake each other in the capital's Banglamotor yesterday.

The High Court yesterday summoned the executive magistrate of “Ka” region of Tangail, Nure Alam Siddiqui, to appear before it on April 9 and explain why he awarded the custody of an 18-month-old child to a maternal aunt instead of the baby’s mother.

A Myanmar pilot died yesterday after a "technical failure" caused his military jet fighter to plummet into a paddy field in the centre of the country, the army said.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday begins key talks with parties on forming a government after last month's election left a hung parliament.

At least four migrants were found dead off Spain on Sunday, with others who had been on board a make-shift boat missing, rescuers said.

The Pacific island of Nauru, where hundreds of asylum-seekers are held in a processing camp, has abolished its links with Australia's highest court in what critics said will leave vulnerable people without a right to appeal.

An air strike near the Yemeni port of Hodeida yesterday killed 16 people in a building where Huthi rebels were gathering, security sources told AFP.