A Mexican journalist shot dead at his home has become the third newsman killed so far this year in Mexico, authorities said Saturday.

Mansura Hossain, a journalist for over 15 years, frequently travels to various parts of Dhaka on assignments and for interviews. She does not like crowded buses dominated by male passengers.

Two workers were killed as a heavy piling pipe fell on them snapping its strings at Rampal thermal power plant in Bagerhat on Saturday night.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a two-and-a-half month old infant, who was abducted on March 11, from a septic tank in Bagerhat's Morrelganj upazila.

A suspected mugger was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Bosila Garden City area of the capital's Mohammadpur early yesterday.

Nasiruddin had a dream to change the fate of his family by working hard and earning a good wage in the oil-rich Saudi Arabia. It, however, tragically turned into a nightmare just in a month as he had to face detention and deportation.

At a mosque on a quiet Islamabad street, any reference to the UN-listed terror group which runs it has been removed as Pakistan -- once again -- comes under pressure to demonstrate its sincerity about eliminating militancy.

Thousands of supporters of Catalan independence marched through central Madrid on Saturday in protest at the ongoing trial of 12 separatist leaders who face years in prison for their role in organising a failed independence bid from Spain in 2017.

Venezuela's self-proclaimed interim leader Juan Guaido began a tour of his country Saturday aimed at sparking a citizen's movement to pry President Nicolas Maduro from power.

Opponents of Serb President Aleksandar Vucic broke into the state-run RTS television building on Saturday, demanding to address the population, in images aired live.

The UN envoy for Syria yesterday held talks in Damascus with Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, who stressed the need for a Syrian-led political solution to the eight-year war.

Armed men killed nine villagers, including children, and torched homes in northern Nigeria Saturday, official sources said, the latest attack in a surge of violence in the Kaduna region.

Drivers of CNG-run vehicles may have to show that the CNG-cylinders have been tested and certified before being allowed to refuel.

The United States on Friday clashed with China at the UN Security Council over Beijing's Belt and Road initiative, saying the infrastructure investment scheme had "known problems" with corruption and debt distress.

The grounding of Boeing's 737 MAX jets after the crash in Ethiopia has had no immediate financial impact on airlines using the planes, but it will get painful for the industry the longer they do not fly, companies and analysts said on Friday.

The Philippine military believes it may have "neutralised" the remnants of an alliance of pro-Islamic State extremists, after the suspected death of the group's de facto leader during clashes last week.

A shadowy dissident group dedicated to overthrowing Kim Jong Un was behind a raid on Madrid's North Korean embassy last month, the Washington Post has reported, offering the latest explanation for the mysterious event.

Slovaks began voting yesterday in round one of a presidential election that a vocal government critic is poised to win after an investigative journalist's murder dealt a blow to the ruling elite.

Each time Aryana Sayeed, one of Afghanistan's most famous singers, returns to the country of her birth, she braves threats and endures scrutiny right down to her choice of clothes.

An orangutan is slowly recovering after being shot with 74 airgun pellets in Indonesian, an official said Saturday.