A Turkish court yesterday ruled that two Greek soldiers charged with espionage and illegally entering the country would remain in jail, in defiance of European Union pressure for their release, reports said.

A British minister yesterday branded Julian Assange a "miserable little worm" after the WikiLeaks founder, who is holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London, questioned the government's response to a nerve agent attack.

A youth allegedly raped the five-year-old daughter of an expatriate Bangladeshi at Dulahazara in Chakaria upazila in Cox's Bazar district on Monday.

The High Court yesterday cleared the way for the government to implement its decision to arrange national anthem singing competition at all educational institutions, including madrasas.

Mozambique police said yesterday that a pick-up truck ploughed into a crowd of party-goers at the weekend killing 23 people, many of whom were teenagers.

Monowara Begum, 35, was doing well for herself. A resident of Elias Mollah Slum in the capital's Pallabi area, she had seven rooms to her name, using three to house her family and renting out the remainder.

The Malaysian government yesterday proposed a "fake news" law which would carry a maximum 10-year jail term, including for articles published abroad, sparking fears of a crackdown on dissent as elections loom.

Investigators looking into a fire that killed at least 64 people at a busy shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo said yesterday that a security guard had turned off the fire alarm system and that exits had been illegally blocked.

The BNP has got permission from Dhaka Metropolitan Police for bringing out a procession in the capital today, marking the 48th Independence Day.

Over 40,000 aspirant hajis are yet to complete their registration mainly due to “passport-related complexities” with only six days remaining before the deadline, sources at the religious affairs ministry said.

Four arrestees were snatched from police by their cohorts in Narail's Lohagora upazila late on Sunday night after an announcement was made from a mosque's loudspeaker that robbers attacked Amada village.

A former student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust), Mahid Al Salam was on his way to Dhaka to attend a job interview.

A Jubo League activist was hacked to death in broad daylight inside a school over what police said was an intraparty feud in Chittagong yesterday.

The historic Jessore Road, immortalised in Allen Ginsberg's poem “September on Jessore Road”, is steadily losing the essence of its legacy due to a corrupt chain of unbridled tree-felling.

Bangladesh faced an unprecedented situation as the Holey Artisan terror attack shook the nation to the core on July 1, 2016. It was a life-changing event for the victims' families.

German police yesterday arrested Catalonia's former president Carles Puigdemont as he crossed the border with Denmark by car after Spain's Supreme Court vowed to prosecute 13 key separatists over their breakaway bid.

The government yesterday suspended Sub-Registrar Ehsak Ali Mondal for corruption and bribery while discharging duties at his office in Narayanganj on March 22.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has asked her lawyers to maintain unity and move the cases filed against her in consultation with all the senior counsels.

A student of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) was killed and three others suffered burn injuries as a newly connected gas line exploded in a building in Mymensingh's Bhaluka early yesterday.

Question sets for the upcoming Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations would be fixed by lottery 25 minutes prior to the tests to check question-paper leak.