The beheaded body of a teenage boy was found inside a mosque in Rangpur yesterday, said police.

Bangladesh is eagerly waiting for a positive announcement during the upcoming visit by the British foreign minister regarding withdrawal of the UK's ban imposed around two years ago on direct air cargo from Dhaka.

The FBI said on Wednesday it had "grave concerns" about the accuracy of a top-secret House Intelligence Committee memo alleging anti-Trump bias within the Justice Department, challenging President Donald Trump's pledge to release it.

Mohammad Javed Patwary, the new inspector general of police, yesterday said police will take highest measures within the law to ensure people's security and safety.

Scores of Rohingya villagers in Myanmar have been massacred and buried in five mass graves, according to an exclusive investigation by the Associated Press.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for spreading Bangladesh's art, culture and literature across the world.

The draft of the Digital Security Act-2018 will be reviewed before its passage and it may see some changes, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reiterated her call to the international community, including the United Nations, to keep up their pressure on Myanmar to properly implement the Annan Commission report to solve the Rohingya crisis.

Two alleged robbers were killed in “gunfights” with police in Kushtia and Narayanganj early yesterday.

Polish lawmakers yesterday approved a bill that would impose jail terms for suggesting Poland was complicit in the Holocaust, drawing concern from the United States and outrage from Israel, which denounced "any attempt to challenge historical truth".

India yesterday announced a national healthcare scheme for half a billion of its poorest citizens in a major giveaway to voters in the final budget before a general election.

Myanmar is planning to double its electric power capacity by 2021 by building natural gas-fired power plants, two senior officials told Reuters yesterday, in an ambitious move to tackle chronic power shortages in the energy-starved country.

A three-year-old girl was allegedly raped at a village in Jhikargacha upazila of Jessore yesterday morning.

The moon put on a rare cosmic show yesterday: a red blue moon, super big and super bright.

An alleged top leader of an outlawed party was killed in a "gunfight" with police in Dhalarchar area of Pabna's Bera upazila early yesterday during a drive for recovering illegal firearms.

It was a dreadful day for her as her husband “died from torture” in Rab custody.

A writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking cancellation of the quota system in the civil service.

Her head above water, Wikie the killer whale looks at the human trainer next to her pool, listens, then loudly vocalises: "Hello."

President Donald Trump appealed Tuesday for national unity and strong borders in his first State of the Union address, calling for "one American family" after a year marred by acrimony, division and scandal.

Trial of the Zia Charitable Trust graft case was halted for around 10 minutes yesterday as the judge left the courtroom amid heated arguments between the defence and the prosecution.