Tributes and condolences have been pouring in from all quarters for Awami League leader Syed Ashraful Islam.

A Bangladeshi migrant has sued the Malaysian immigration police demanding compensation of 1.4 lakh ringgit for two weeks of unlawful detention.

Democrats wasted no time flexing their new power in the US House of Representatives on Thursday by approving legislation backed by new Speaker Nancy Pelosi that would end a 13-day partial government shutdown, ignoring President Donald Trump's demand for $5 billion for a border wall.

A three-member BNP delegation, led by its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, yesterday met US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller and discussed various issues relating to Sunday's national election.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said no genuine Indian would be left out of the National Register of Citizens in Assam and promised that his government would do everything possible to push through a bill that seeks to give Indian citizenship to religious minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Expressing concern over alleged harassment, intimidation and electoral irregularities in the December 30 election, Norway has called for a transparent investigation into the allegations.

The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has launched six international standard mini-labs in as many districts to enhance its capacity to check sale of fake medicines.

A group of unidentified criminals killed a member of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Samhati Samity (PCJSS-MN Larma) in Baghaichhari upazila yesterday.

A three-day Bangla Utshab began at Nazrul Mancha, Rabindra Sarobar in Kolkata yesterday to celebrate the shared musical legacy of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India.

Turkish police on Friday launched nationwide raids to detain nearly 150 people, including military personnel, suspected of ties to the group blamed for the 2016 attempted coup, local media reported.

A British navy ship was patrolling the Channel on Friday in response to a wave of mostly Iranian asylum seekers risking the crossing from France in dinghies.

Danish police said Friday they had identified the eight victims killed in a train accident earlier this week, all of them Danes and ranging in age from 27 to 60.

Deadly protests that have grown across Sudan in recent weeks are the biggest threat to President Omar al-Bashir's iron-fisted rule since he swept to power in a 1989 coup, analysts said.

Five members of the Nigerian air force were killed when a helicopter crashed as Boko Haram militants ambushed a military base in northeastern Nigeria, a spokesman said Thursday.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday again voiced optimism that a second US-North Korea summit would take place soon but said he doubted it would seal a landmark deal.

US internet giant Google used a legal mechanism to transfer almost 20 billion euros from the Netherlands to Bermuda in 2017 for tax purposes, a Dutch newspaper report said Friday.

An Australian man triggered an emergency police response after a noisy exchange with a spider startled a passerby into reporting what sounded like a violent disturbance to the authorities, media reported.

A Jubo League activist was stabbed to death allegedly by his rivals in Pirojpur Sadar upazila yesterday.

A man was killed in what police said was a “gunfight” between two groups of drug traders in Buripota village of Meherpur's Sadar upazila early yesterday.

A fourth grader was allegedly raped by a man on Sunday in Kamalganj upazila.