A US judge sentenced a pair of Russians who led a massive hacking and data breach scheme to lengthy criminal sentences, the US Department of Justice announced Thursday.

India's water-starved tech hub Bangalore yesterday received a much-needed boost when the country's top court altered a river-sharing arrangement in its favour, ruling on a bitter dispute that dates back more than a century.

A study of 21 American diplomats who claimed they were victims of mysterious sonic attacks in Cuba shows they sustained brain injuries without any apparent head trauma, US researchers said Thursday.

Dozens of people were killed when an armed gang opened fire on locals in northern Nigeria, police and residents said yesterday, in the latest violence to hit West Africa's largest economy.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was set to visit Berlin yesterday in a bid to thaw frosty ties after the relationship between the two neighbours was strained by issues including refugee quotas and Warsaw's judicial reforms.

About another 200,000 South Sudanese refugees are expected to arrive in Sudan this year, fleeing fighting and food insecurity in their country, the United Nations said Thursday.

The EU yesterday rebuffed a US call for written assurances that Nato's role in protecting Europe would not be threatened by the bloc's new defence pact.

A construction worker was killed and eight others were injured as the roof of an under-construction auditorium collapsed on them in Gafargaon upazila town of Mymensingh yesterday morning.

Two criminals allegedly raped a housewife after killing her mother-in-law at a house in Deichar area of Faridganj early yesterday, according to Chandpur police.

As part of its ongoing protest programmes, the BNP has decided to hold a rally in the capital on February 22, demanding release of party Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

The two Marma sisters released from hospital on Thursday have been taken to the house of a former union parishad chairman in Rangmati.

The year is 1899: the Second Boer War rages in South Africa; Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in transmitting the first radio signal across the

The United Nations special envoy on human rights in Myanmar has claimed that Aung San Suu Kyi could be complicit in the systematic persecution of Rohingyas, which bears all the hallmarks of genocide.

A Russian Internet agency and more than a dozen Russians interfered in the US election campaign from 2014 through 2016 in a multi-

An Israeli military court yesterday handed four life sentences to a Palestinian convicted of murdering three Israelis at a West Bank settlement during heightened tensions in July, the defence minister said.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday called upon Myanmar to take steps so that the displaced Rohingyas can return home in Rakhine with dignity and safety.

Turkish troops have set up a new "observation point" in the Syrian province of Idlib as part of efforts to reduce violence in the conflict, state media reported yesterday.

Myanmar Home Minister Lt Gen Kyaw Swe arrived in Dhaka yesterday afternoon on a three-day visit to Bangladesh.

A jailed Indonesian cleric accused of being the mastermind of a deadly 2016 terror attack in Jakarta went on trial yesterday and faces a possible death sentence if convicted.

The BNP yesterday announced fresh agitation programmes demanding the release of party Chairperson Khaleda Zia.