Air strikes hit Syria's Eastern Ghouta for a third straight day yesterday, bringing the civilian death toll to nearly 200 as the UN warned the situation in the rebel enclave was spinning "out of control".

Seven indigenous families have recently left their homes in Bandarban's Naikkhyangchhari upazila after some unidentified people had allegedly threatened them with life if they failed to pay them money.

A security person of the Gono Bhaban was injured early yesterday when his colleague accidentally fired a gun.

Pakistani politician and former playboy cricketer Imran Khan has married a woman described as his spiritual adviser, party officials said, the third wedding for the World Cup champion once touted as Pakistan's most eligible bachelor.

The Halda River, which meanders through south east Bangladesh, is famous for being perhaps the only place in Southeast Asia where the pure Indian carp naturally occurs.

Amin of Segunbagicha in Dhaka was arrested on October 25, 2008, in connection with murder. He was 45 then. He has been in jail since then, which is almost 10 years. The case against him is pending with the Jono Nirapotta Bignokari Aporadh Daman Tribunal, Dhaka, without any significant progress.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged that the government was attempting to arrange a stage-managed one-sided election again, keeping the party out of the electoral process.

Egypt said yesterday three of its soldiers had been killed in the Sinai Peninsula during a wide-ranging operation against the local branch of the Islamic State group.

US and Thai marines slurped snake blood and ate scorpions in a jungle survival programme yesterday as part of the two nations' annual Cobra Gold war games.

The BBC this week launches its new Igbo and Yoruba services in Nigeria, as part of an expansion in local languages aimed at more in-depth reporting of countries around the world.

An Iraqi court ordered the release and deportation of a suspected French jihadist sentenced yesterday to seven months in prison for

France yesterday urged the UN's top court to throw out a case brought against it in a bitter diplomatic row with oil-rich Equatorial Guinea over French accusations of top-level corruption.

A medium intensity earthquake struck southwestern Mexico early yesterday morning, scaring residents already shaken by a powerful quake two days earlier, though there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

A Spanish judge yesterday allowed leading Catalan separatist Marta Rovira, who faces charges over her region's independence bid, to walk free but ordered her to post bail of 60,000 euros ($75,000), a source close to the case said.

Representatives from Bangladesh and Myanmar will meet today to discuss the repatriation to Myanmar of more than 6,500 Rohingya Muslims trapped on a strip of unclaimed land between the two countries, Bangladeshi officials said.

A sudden fall of the price of cauliflowers frustrates the farmers in the district as they are not even close to getting the production cost from the sales.

The Maldives' top court has suspended 12 pro-opposition legislators before a crucial parliamentary vote later yesterday, emboldening President Abdulla Yameen as he clings to power in the troubled islands.

A team of six Israeli researchers on Sunday ended a four-day Mars habitat experiment in Israel's Negev desert where they simulated living conditions on the Red Planet, Israel's Science and Technology Ministry said.

While question papers of all the SSC exams held so far have been leaked and circulated on some Facebook pages, the inter-ministerial

The mass exodus of Rohingyas in the face of persecution makes it necessary for the European Union to reassess its relations with Myanmar, Members of the European Parliament (MEP) has said.