Boko Haram fighters attacked three military bases in northeast Nigeria, overrunning two where they carted away weapons, military and civilian sources told AFP yesterday.

Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday renewed his defence of the social network's business, arguing that targeting ads based on interests was different from selling people's data.

Two teenage students died and another was injured after being hit by a train when they were sitting on a rail track, with their earphones on, in Rajbari's Kalukhali upazila on Thursday.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia expressed strong dissatisfaction with her seating arrangement at the court during the hearing in the Gatco graft case yesterday.

The United States has freed a journalist working for Iran's English-language television station Press TV after 10 days in detention, the channel has announced.

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said yesterday its version of "Sunflowers" will no longer be allowed to travel after restoration work showed it was in a "fragile" condition.

For the first time in a generation, a rare Purple Heron was spotted near a lake in the capital. These birds of Bangladesh are seen only occasionally in the reed beds of large fresh-water lakes called haors.

Rawshan Ara stares lovingly at her one-year-old son while they sit on a railway coupling at the back of the Mymensingh-bound Isha Kha

The UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar yesterday visited Bhashan Char where Dhaka aims to move Rohingya refugees despite worries it would be vulnerable to extreme weather.

A 12-year-old blind girl has allegedly been raped by her father's co-worker in Kalmakanda upazila of Netrakona.

The medical board, formed to conduct medical test on an alleged rape victim in Noakhali's Kabirhat, did not find any evidence of gang rape.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declares himself interim president, winning the backing of Washington and many Latin American nations and prompting socialist Nicolas Maduro, who has led the oil-rich nation since 2013, to break relations with the United States.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) allegedly shot dead a Bangladeshi cattle trader along Char Ashariadaha border in Rajshahi's Godagari upazila early yesterday.

The world is "losing the race" against climate change, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned yesterday, demanding bolder action from governments to arrest runaway warming.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation today following the formation of her new government earlier this month.

Indian authorities beat and threatened Rohingyas, forcing some to flee to Bangladesh in recent weeks, said Fortify Rights yesterday.

Australia is investigating reports a Chinese-Australian dissident is missing in China, officials said yesterday, raising concerns he may be the latest Western citizen to be detained in the country.

Kurdish-led fighters overran the last village held by the Islamic State group in Syria yesterday, confining its once vast cross-border "caliphate" to two small hamlets, a war monitor said.

A man was beaten up allegedly by a stalker and his family members in Boardghar Bazar area of Jamalpur Sadar yesterday for protesting harassment of his 17-year-old daughter.

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has told his chief spokeswoman Sarah Sanders "not to bother" with formal media briefings in the White House, because journalists don't cover her fairly.