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.

In Mymensingh's Trishal upazila, child marriage has a dynamic new foe: a brigade of schoolgirls. Led by Mahbuba Alam Tripti, the

Trade activities through Benapole Land Port resumed Monday night after five days.

Rab yesterday confirmed that it arrested BNP leader Anisur Rahman Talukder Khokon over allegations of plotting subversive activities around 20 hours after he went missing in the capital's Gulistan area.

The new chief justice is likely to be appointed by tomorrow as the post has been vacant since immediate past chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha stepped down on November 10 last year.

Two senior ministers yesterday said the Digital Security Act-2018 would not be applied to journalists if they wrote on corruption and illegal acts as it would not be considered as spying.

The Dhaka University authorities last night expelled 15 students from the institution over fraudulence in admission tests.

Police yesterday detained a mother and her daughter, who were allegedly abducted 11 years ago, in Isagura village of Barisal Sadar upazila.

Turkey yesterday detained all the top members of the country's main medical association, including its chief, after they criticised Ankara's offensive against Kurdish militia in Syria.

Britain's House of Lords begins scrutiny of a key piece of Brexit legislation yesterday, as a leaked government report said Britain would be worse off whatever deal it strikes with the EU.

China yesterday vowed to force both local and foreign companies and individuals to use only government-approved software to access the global internet, as overseas firms fear losing unrestricted online services under an impending deadline.

One of two women on trial for the Cold War-style murder of the North Korean leader's estranged half-brother met with an alleged North Korean agent a month before the assassination, a court heard yesterday.

Amazon.com Inc on Monday opened a rainforest-like office space in Seattle that it hopes will spark new ideas for employees.

The central bank yesterday instructed banks to lower their loan-deposit ratio to within 83.5 percent by June 30 in a move to reining in the banks' aggressive lending practices.

More than 100,000 Rohingya refugees huddled in squalid, muddy camps in Bangladesh will be in grave danger from landslides when the mid-year monsoon season begins, a UN humanitarian report said.

The upazila nirbahi officer of Lohagara, Chittagong and three policemen offered unconditional apology to the High Court yesterday for sentencing a man through a mobile court when he was already in police custody.

Gunmen and suicide bombers launched a pre-dawn attack claimed by the Islamic State group on a military compound in Kabul yesterday, killing 11 soldiers in the third major assault in the Afghan capital in recent days.

A man stabbed his sister-in-law to death and critically injured his wife for sending him divorce papers in Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur yesterday afternoon.

A worker was killed and seven others injured when a mixer machine exploded at BSCIC Industrial City at Begumganj upazila of Noakhali yesterday.