The US-North Korea nuclear summit in Hanoi ended abruptly without a deal yesterday, with President Donald Trump saying he had decided to "walk" in the face of Kim Jong Un's demands to drop sanctions.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday praised the courage and intelligence of the pilot, co-pilot and cabin crew of the Biman aircraft which was attempted to be hijacked on February 24.

A woman was killed and five others were injured as a storm lashed the Bangabandhu bridge area of Sirajganj yesterday.

A suspected drug dealer was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Paltan area of the capital early yesterday.

The Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday offered citizenship to Rohingya refugees, reiterating his willingness to accept them into the country.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump meet in Hanoi for their second summit, with the US president saying he was not walking back on US demands for North Korea's denuclearisation.

The Department of Narcotics Control claimed to have busted a narcotics manufacturing laboratory and seized a consignment of two types of new drugs, including crystal methamphetamine, from the capital's Jhigatola area yesterday.

The US Army estimates the Russian army's military capabilities will peak in 2028, closely followed by the Chinese around 2030, giving the United States almost a decade to prepare for those threats, a senior Pentagon official said in an interview on Monday.

Syria's army yesterday displayed a huge cache of what it said were powerful explosives left behind by rebels in Daraa province, the birthplace of the uprising that sparked the country's civil war.

Japanese sumo officials have introduced a crackdown on beards, calling them "indecent" and telling wrestlers they must look spick and span during competitions under strict, new rules on personal grooming.

Two pedestrians and a van puller were killed after a driver lost control of a lorry and it ran over the three on Dhaka-Chattogram highway near Kutumbpur bus stand in Cumilla's Chandina upazila yesterday.

A Jashore court yesterday sent two men to jail on charges of raping a teenage girl in the district's Sadar upazila.

Australian Cardinal George Pell, one of Pope Francis' closest advisors, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two choirboys, becoming the most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sex crimes.

Two separate probe committees, formed by National Human Rights Commission and the Ministry of Home Affairs, to investigate the BGB firing incident in Thakurgaon ended their two-day visit to the district on Tuesday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump both arrived in Vietnam yesterday, the eve of their second summit at which they will tackle how to implement a North Korean pledge to give up its nuclear weapons.

Only two doctors have been tending to patients round the clock for the last three months at the 50-bed Birganj Upazila Health Complex in Dinajpur.

Two minor girls have allegedly been raped, one by her father and another by a neighbour, in Narayanganj and Moulvibazar.

Police arrested a man from his house in the capital's West Nakhalpara in Tejgaon yesterday on charges of raping his domestic help.

Another victim of the Chawkbazar fire lost the battle for life at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early yesterday, taking the death toll in the tragedy to 69.

Two alleged criminals -- a drug dealer and a robber -- were killed in “gunfights” with police in Kushtia and Barishal yesterday.