More than 100 inmates escape from an Indonesian jail on Sumatra island, police say, in the latest breakout to hit the country's creaking prison system.

A Bangladeshi man was tortured to death by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the border in Satkhira Sadar upazila, his family members claim.

Six traders are fined Tk 40,000 for selling date-expired meat in Brahmanbaria.

Relatives went on a rampage at Adhunik Hospital in Laxmipur this morning following the death of a patient due to 'wrong treatment'.

The mild to moderate heat wave which is sweeping over Dhaka, Rajshahi and Khulna divisions and the regions of Noakhali and Dinajpur may continue till tomorrow, a met official says.

A New Jersey man who defrauded Medicare by using the promise of ice cream to lure senior citizens into genetic testing is sentenced to more than four years in prison.

Around 180 governments have agreed on a new UN accord to regulate the export of plastic waste, some eight million tonnes of which ends up in the oceans each year, organisers say.

Obesity worldwide, including in Bangladesh, is increasing more quickly in rural areas than in cities, a study reports, challenging a long-held assumption that the global epidemic of excess weight is mainly an urban problem.

Britain's young royals, brothers Prince William and Prince Harry and their wives Kate and Meghan, have launched a new phone messaging service to help people suffering a mental health crisis.

Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan approved a new deployment of Patriot missiles to the Middle East, a US official tells Reuters, in the latest US response to what Washington sees as a growing threat from Iran.

North Korean missile launches over the past week have not affected Donald Trump's relationship with Kim Jong Un, the US president says, in a change of course after initially expressing his dissatisfaction.

A man, who was accused in rape and acid-throwing cases, has been killed in a gunfight with law enforcers in Meherpur district, police say.

Facebook is suing South Korean data analytics firm Rankwave to make sure it isn't breaking the leading social network's rules, the US company says.

Billionaire Richard Branson is moving Virgin Galactic’s winged passenger rocket and more than 100 employees from California to a remote commercial launch and landing facility in southern New Mexico, bringing his space-tourism dream a step closer to reality.

China and the United States have agreed to hold more trade talks in Beijing, Vice Premier Liu He says, as US President Donald Trump ordered his trade chief to begin the process of imposing tariffs on all remaining imports from China.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has returned home from London concluding her 10-day official visit to the United Kingdom (UK).

At least 65 migrants drowned when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian coast after they had left Libya hoping to reach Europe, the UN refugee agency UNHCR says.

Law Minister Anisul Huq assures that fair trial will be held over the incident of assaulting Sarwar Jahan Mithu, general manager of Green Life Knitting and Washing at Ashulia.

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US President Donald Trump says he is in no hurry to sign a trade deal with China as Washington imposes a new set of tariffs on Chinese goods and negotiators enter a second day of last-ditch talks to try to salvage an agreement.