A schoolboy was stabbed to death allegedly by one of his friends for only Tk 20 at Kandapara village in Muktagachha upazila on Friday night.

Pakistan's government called on the powerful military to deploy in the capital Islamabad yesterday after deadly unrest broke out when police moved to dislodge an Islamist protest that has paralysed the city for weeks.

Traffic in the capital came to a grinding halt again due to a public event yesterday causing people, especially patients, to suffer.

A Russian scientific commission will investigate reports of radioactive pollution almost 1,000 times above normal levels in the southern Urals, state nuclear company Rosatom said Friday.

Iraqi forces thrust north from the Euphrates Valley into the desert yesterday, opening up a new front in the drive to flush out fugitive Islamic State group fighters, a commander told AFP.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said politicians are responsible for corruption and asked them to take lesson

The High Court is set to deliver its verdict today on the death reference and appeals of 152 convicts filed against their convictions in the Pilkhana BDR mutiny case.

The criteria stipulated in the new repatriation deal will make it difficult for the

Gunmen who attacked a mosque on Friday in Egypt's North Sinai brandished an Islamic State flag as they opened fire through doorways and windows, killing more than 300 worshippers, including two dozen children, officials said yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina through her statement on enforced disappearance in parliament has "admitted that the government is involved", BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said yesterday.

At a time when several thousand brick kilns are causing large-scale air pollution and loss of topsoil across the country, around 20 private firms are making eco-friendly construction materials without any baking.

An alleged robber was killed in what police claimed was a shootout between police and his armed cohorts in the capital's Khilgaon area early yesterday.

Nepal tomorrow votes in historic elections for new national and provincial assemblies that many hope will bring much-needed stability to

A girl of class-II was allegedly raped by a 28-year-old man in Shimulbazar area of Bhanga upazila Thursday afternoon.

Emmerson Mnangagwa vowed sweeping change as he was sworn in as Zimbabwe's president yesterday, seeking to reassure foreign investors and pledging to fight poverty and corruption after Robert Mugabe's shock resignation.

An explosion apparently occurred near the last known position of an Argentine submarine, the navy confirmed on Thursday, dashing last hopes of finding the vessel and its 44 crew members.

A group of eight fishermen claiming to be from North Korea washed up in northern Japan after drifting there when their wooden vessel developed technical problems, authorities said on Friday.

Leaders from the EU and six former Soviet states yesterday gathered in Brussels to discuss deepening ties, with worries about Russian influence looming and thorny subjects like the war in Ukraine off the official agenda.

Nigeria's former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, on Friday quit the country's ruling party, in a clear sign he wants to challenge Muhammadu Buhari for the presidency in 2019.

The United States will send stealth fighters to a large-scale air force drill with South Korea next month, the US military said yesterday, in a new show of force aimed at North Korea.