Edna Orila has to sidestep human excrement as she looks for a space to sleep in the tiny schoolroom she shares with 55 other people seeking refuge from a spectacular -- but dangerous -- volcano in the Philippines.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, heavily criticised abroad for failing to stand up for largely stateless Rohingya Muslims, that she shouldn't bother about rights activists as they are "just a noisy bunch".

Bangladesh has called upon the UN Security Council to prevail upon Israel to immediately halt violence and illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

A huge fire tore through a South Korean hospital in Miryang yesterday killing at least 37 people, the government said, in the country's worst blaze for a decade.

A case was filed against a sub-inspector of Sitakunda Police Station and four other unknown people yesterday for killing a man in police firing in Telipara village on Wednesday night.

The oldest remains of a modern human outside Africa have been dug up in Israel, offering evidence of what genetic studies have already suggested -- that humans migrated out of Africa some 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Two leaders of pro-Awami League Jubo League and Bangladesh Chhatra League have been killed as assailants in separate attacks hacked them in Savar and Feni respectively on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump yesterday dismissed as "fake news" bombshell reports that he had ordered the firing of Russia investigation special prosecutor Robert Mueller last year, only backing off in the face of a threatened resignation.

Famous Bengali film actress Supriya Devi passed away yesterday at her South Kolkata residence following a massive heart attack.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who arrives here this afternoon, will visit Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar tomorrow.

Nationwide, for some years now, farmers have been using bags to protect ripening fruits, including mangoes, guavas, litchis and papayas. In Tangail, the same technique is being enlisted to protect vegetable crops from pest attack.

French prison guards yesterday pushed ahead with work stoppages and pickets after two unions turned down the government's latest offer to end a nearly two-week crisis after a series of attacks by inmates.

Rights bodies at a rally in the capital yesterday condemned an alleged rape of a 17-year-old Marma girl in Rangamati.

A crowd yesterday foiled an attempted abduction by four people who identified themselves as detectives and tried to whisk a man in a microbus at Moghbazar in the capital.

At least 16 dolphins (Platanista Gangetica) have been found dead in the last three months in the Halda, according to data found primarily by Halda River Research Institute.

A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook has been vandalised in Melbourne in an apparent protest on the eve of Australia Day.

An alleged accused in a case filed over the murder of a college student was killed in a "gunfight" with police in Bolashpur area of Mymensingh town early yesterday.

Police yesterday filed a case accusing 400-500 people over a clash which took place eight days ago during the eviction of hawkers from footpaths in Narayanganj City Corporation area.

Scientists in China have created the first monkeys cloned by the same process that produced Dolly the sheep more than 20 years ago, a breakthrough that could boost medical research into human diseases.

This year's SSC and its equivalent exams under all the education boards will be held with uniform question papers.