Hundreds of thousands of US federal employees were forced to stay home without pay yesterday after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on ending a government shutdown before the start of the work week.

Four people were killed and 10 others injured in a collision between a bus and a truck on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Shatmail area in Dakshin Surma upazila of Sylhet yesterday morning at around 7:00am.

An alleged robber was killed in a "gunfight" with police in Rangpur city early yesterday.

At least three Bangladeshi migrant workers were killed and six were injured as their vehicle overturned on a mountainous road in Al-Bahah province in Saudi Arabia on Saturday evening.

A motorcycle bomb exploded in a market in Thailand's southern Yala province yesterday, killing three people and wounding 22, a spokesman for the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) said, the first such attack in the region in months.

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Amazon.com Inc opened its checkout-free grocery store to the public yesterday after more than a year of testing, the company said, moving forward on an experiment that could dramatically alter brick-and-mortar retail.

Recording deposition of witnesses in freedom fighter and Awami League leader Faruk Ahmed murder case was deferred again as main accused AL lawmaker in Tangail-3 Amanur Rahman Khan Rana could not be produced before the court yesterday due to his illness.

Traders of New Market and their employees blocked Nilkhet intersection for around four hours yesterday, protesting Dhaka South City Corporation's plan to turn the market into a two-storey building.

A nine-year-old girl was found dead in Chittagong city's Akbar Shah area on Sunday night, nearly four hours after she had gone missing from in front of her home.

A Bangladeshi woman allegedly faced an attempted sexual assault while travelling on the Maitree Express yesterday morning.

Rab yesterday arrested a fugitive killer of veteran journalist Manik Saha from Satkhira.

Attackers yesterday killed a Rohingya representative in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, the second such death in three days as tensions mount over the planned repatriation of some 750,000 refugees to Myanmar.

The World Bank yesterday approved a $300 million loan for Nepal as the impoverished nation struggles to raise money to rebuild almost three years after an earthquake killed thousands and flattened homes.

The second phase of the Biswa Ijtema, second largest congregation of Muslims after the holy Hajj, concluded yesterday on the Turag with Akheri Munajat seeking peace on earth and prosperity for the Muslim ummah.

Hundreds of right-wing demonstrators crowded a main square at Rotterdam's central station Saturday to protest what they describe as the "discrimination against ordinary Dutch citizens" in favour of immigrants and Muslims.

Two American and two Canadians who were kidnapped in an ambush by gunmen in northern Nigeria this week were freed on Saturday, police said.

Thousands of people were expected to take to the streets of northern Greece's biggest city Thessaloniki yesterday as hardliners seek to block any deal in the long-running name dispute between Athens and Skopje that contains the term Macedonia.

Aneek Aziz, son of Satkhira-1 lawmaker Mustafa Lutfullah, was found dead at their NAM flat on Manik Mia Avenue in the capital yesterday morning.

A Taliban assault on the Intercontinental Hotel in Afghanistan's capital killed at least 18 people, including 14 foreigners, and pinned security forces down for more than 12 hours before the last attacker was killed yesterday, with the casualty toll expected to rise.