A lawsuit filed on Thursday accuses Facebook of letting ad targeting tools be used to exclude women and older people from offers regarding loans, investments and other financial services.

Japanese retailers including supermarkets and convenience stores will be required to charge for plastic bags from next summer ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, a government panel agreed yesterday.

A controversial law that would allow Russia to cut internet traffic from international servers came into force yesterday, prompting fears from rights activists of online isolation.

The US Department of the Interior has grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones as it conducts a review of the program.

A housewife was found dead at her home in Haripur upazila of Thakurgaon yesterday.

A defiant US President Donald Trump, buoyed by strong Republican support and good employment figures, was to take his fight against impeachment to a Mississippi rally yesterday.

Czech scientists have opened a lab to experiment growing food for environments with extreme conditions and lack of water, such as Mars.

The authorities of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi curbed passenger movements for a couple of hours as they recovered a bag full of suspected RDX content in the wee hours yesterday.

A differently-abled girl was raped by a neighbour in Jashore’s Monirampur upazila on multiple occasions. She is now four months pregnant.

At least two people have died and six others were injured in clashes between supporters and opponents of Bolivian President Evo Morales following his disputed election victory earlier this month, the government said Wednesday.

Rakibul Hasan Rifat Farazi, the key accused in the Rifat Sharif murder case, filed a petition with a court local court yesterday seeking withdrawal of his confessional statement.

Chile pulled out of hosting two major international summits on Wednesday as it struggled to restore order after more than ten days of civil unrest that left at least 23 dead.

A man was sent to jail yesterday on charges of bludgeoning two college students with a hammer in Natore’s Naldanga on Wednesday night.

Beijing yesterday slammed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for a speech it said had “viciously attacked” China.

Police yesterday rescued a two-year-old shackled to an iron pillar from the town’s launch terminal area.

The Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup, which began on October 19 with eight teams vying for the title, came to a close at the MA Aziz Stadium in Chattogram yesterday.

Congress formally opened a new, public phase of its corruption investigation into Donald Trump yesterday as US lawmakers voted for the first time to advance the impeachment process targeting the US president.

A new rule being mulled in China to allow schoolchildren to go to bed by 10:00pm, even if they haven’t finished their homework, has prompted heated debate about the country’s education system.

India’s Muslim-majority region of Kashmir was formally divided yesterday, almost three months after losing its autonomy in a move that triggered violence and stoked tensions with arch-rival Pakistan.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen downplayed the deaths and exploitation of Bangladeshi female migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, claiming the number of such victims was “small”.