French President Emmanuel Macron will be awarded next year's Charlemagne Prize for his vision to rebuild Europe at a time when the bloc is battling instability, organisers of the award said yesterday.

China said yesterday that it "attaches great importance to the development of China-Venezuela relations" after a US subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned oil giant Sinopec sued its Venezuelan counterpart.

At least five of the 13 convicts, who were awarded death sentence and life term in Biswajit Das murder case, are fugitives in police record for the last five years, although they are active in social media or are seen in some areas in the capital, sources said.

A gazette notification on the disciplinary rules for the lower court judges might be issued next week, Law Minister Anisul Huq said yesterday.

Bangladesh Chhatra League's central committee expelled four leaders of the Institute of Health Technology (IHT) in Rajshahi for their involvement in assaulting five female students on Wednesday.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday said army deployment would not be necessary during the upcoming Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) polls.

A drone that hovers over Japanese employees and blares music to force them to go home was unveiled yesterday, as the country tries to reduce its notoriously long work hours.

Rajshahi University on Wednesday decided to take punitive action against two teachers of the fine arts faculty for their involvement in making and selecting controversial multiple-choice questions for its admission test.

Nepalis began voting in the final round of parliamentary elections yesterday, a key step to complete a near decade-long democratic transition after the abolition of the centuries-old monarchy and the end of a civil war against Maoist guerrillas.

The present conditions in Rakhine are not conducive for safe and sustainable return of the Rohingya refugees, said the UN refugee agency yesterday.

A new species of "marsupial lion" extinct in Australia for 19 million years has been discovered at one of the most significant fossil deposits in the world, researchers said yesterday.

Yemen's government has retaken a Red Sea town from Huthi insurgents, officials said yesterday, days after President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi's administration ordered troops to advance on the rebel-held capital.

The co-leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition party yesterday went on trial in Ankara on charges of links to outlawed Kurdish rebels, after more than a year behind bars in a case supporters say is politically motivated.

The winner of Turkey's national beauty pageant, who was forced to hand back her crown over a contentious tweet, is facing up to one

China touted its political and development model as it hosted an inaugural global human rights forum yesterday, even as activists slammed the country's own abuses.

Prime Minister's International Affairs Adviser Gowher Rizvi yesterday called upon the media to stay alert against those in the government who patronise corruption.

Police yesterday submitted the final report in a case filed over the technical glitch in Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's flight on November 27 last year.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will travel to France on December 11 to attend the One Planet Summit, an event for discussing funding of the fight against climate change.

It was the morning of August 20, 1971, when 25 to 30 Pakistan army men accompanied by their local collaborators entered the predominantly Hindu Laxmipur village of Pabna's Atghoria.

Accusing Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman of treason by “making derogatory comments” on Bangabandhu and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, an Awami League leader of Natore has filed a case seeking Tk 1,000 crore in damages.