Turkey yesterday issued arrest warrants for two men accused of handing Washington fabricated reports and stealing documents in a case against a top Turkish banker suspected of violating US sanctions on Iran, local media reported.

Russia said it had lost contact yesterday with a weather satellite just hours after it was launched from its Vostochny cosmodrome, in only the second rocket liftoff from the new spaceport.

An elephant that has starred in feature films and commercials crushed its owner to death in Thailand, zoo officials said yesterday, sparking fresh debate over the kingdom's animal tourism industry.

A deadly blast that rocked China's port city of Ningbo at the weekend was caused by the mishandling of illegal explosives, police said yesterday.

The assistant parish priest of Jonail Catholic Church in Baraigram upazila has been missing since Monday afternoon.

Detectives of Chittagong Metropolitan Police arrested two people, including an assistant sub-inspector of police, in possession of 1,000

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said participatory election is the only way of stopping polls rigging.

The government is going to build settlements in Bhasanchar island of Hatiya upazila for temporarily accommodating one lakh of more than 10 lakh Myanmar nationals sheltered in Bangladesh.

The Border Security Force of India shot dead a man along Boroi border in Dinajpur Sadar upazila yesterday morning, said BGB officials in

Fed up with the authorities' failure to solve the prolonged waterlogging problem at Haji Khorshed Ali Sardar Sarak in the capital's East Jurain, locals have taken matters into their own hands.

An alleged member of an outlaw group was killed in what police claimed was a shootout. The incident took place between the police and his armed

Sophia, a lifelike robot, which has generated quite a buzz among the youth and the artificial intelligence industry around the world, is coming to Bangladesh to make an appearance at the Digital World Exposition on December 6.

Dhaka University teacher Prof Asif Nazrul has been sued under section 57 of the ICT Act over a Facebook post, which the teacher claimed was uploaded from a fake account.

Pakistan's law minister resigned yesterday as the embattled civilian government bowed to demands from a small Islamist group whose anti-blasphemy protest in the capital has fuelled deadly violence and sparked demonstrations across the nuclear-armed nation.

Hearing on the freedom fighter Faruk Ahmed murder case was deferred again as the main accused, Awami League lawmaker Amanur Rahman Khan Rana, could not be produced before the court yesterday because of his illness.

Academic activities at government colleges were hampered yesterday as teachers who are BCS general education cadres continued their work abstention for the second consecutive day.

Britain's Prince Harry is to marry his US actress girlfriend Meghan Markle early next year it was announced yesterday, with the Queen leading a chorus of approval and best wishes for the couple who got engaged in secret earlier this month.

Mother of slain BCL leader Diaz Irfan Chowdhury staged a hunger strike on Chittagong University campus yesterday morning demanding immediate arrest and suspension of the alleged killers.

Rohingya are still fleeing into Bangladesh even after an agreement was signed with Myanmar to repatriate hundreds of thousands of the Muslim minority displaced along the border, officials said yesterday.

Relatives of a number of army officers killed during the Pilkhana BDR carnage yesterday expressed satisfaction over the High Court judgment.