Al-Shabaab Islamists on Wednesday carried out attacks on two Somali military bases, using a suicide vehicle bombing and dozens of heavily armed militants, a military official said.

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has claimed “very top” level Malaysian officials believed vanished Flight MH370 was deliberately downed by the captain in a mass murder-suicide.

Three people, including a child, drowned after a fishing trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila yesterday.

The world is failing to protect children from the health dangers posed by climate change and poor diet, a landmark UN report said yesterday, warning that every child is under “immediate threat”.

Myanmar is set to be placed on a watchlist by a global finance watchdog this week, amid concerns of money-laundering by transnational drug traffickers and weak regulation of its financial system, two sources familiar with deliberations said.

Two suspected robbers were killed in a “gunfight” between two dacoit groups at Borunatoil village in Sadar upazila of Magura early yesterday.

SpaceX announced a new partnership Tuesday to send four tourists deeper into orbit than any private citizen before them, in a mission that could take place by 2022 and easily cost more than $100 million.

The United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) claimed that one of their activists was shot dead by unidentified criminals at Banduk Bhanga union in Sadar upazila of Rangamati yesterday.

State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday said the government would take up a project to relocate religious and educational establishments built within the boundaries of the rivers in and around the capital.

The Daily Star has won bronze prize in “Best in Social Media Engagement” category of the prestigious South Asian Digital Media Awards 2019.

Bangabandhu today visits Ramgati in Noakhali and Shantirhat in Bhola. This is the prime minister’s second visit to the rural areas of Bangladesh after his assumption of office.

A tea estate in Chattogram has continuously been encroaching on one of the oldest and richest reserve forests in the country. Over the years, it has foiled forestation attempts and continuously damaged trees while expanding its territory.

Police in China have arrested a prominent activist who had been a fugitive for weeks and criticised President Xi Jinping’s handling of the coronavirus epidemic while in hiding, a rights group said yesterday.

Jurors will begin deliberating the fate of ex-Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein on Tuesday in his high-profile sex crimes trial that marked a watershed moment in the #MeToo movement.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last night asked her party leaders and activists not to go overboard with the observance of “Mujib Borsho”, the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

An adviser in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office resigned on Monday after online comments resurfaced where he linked intellect to race and seemed to advocate a eugenics policy.

A Rohingya woman was beaten to death by two others in their camp in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

Government air strikes have hit hospitals and displaced persons camps in northwest Syria and killed about 300 civilians as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces press an assault against the last rebel stronghold, the United Nations said yesterday.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight between two groups of criminals” in the district’s Bochaganj upazila early yesterday.

The Daily Star obtained a copy of the letter and ran a report on it with the headline: "Pirojpur schoolgirl writes to PM for new school building".