At least three people were killed when supporters of an imprisoned Shia cleric clashed with security forces during a protest march in Abuja, prompting warnings to the government that a heavy-handed approach could radicalise elements in the group.

Russia's only aircraft carrier was damaged and a giant floating dock sank after a crane crashed onto the vessel as it was undergoing repairs near the Arctic city of Murmansk yesterday.

Villagers beat up a man and handed him over to the police yesterday after he allegedly raped two fifth graders on Friday in Badarganj upazila of Rangpur.

With the election a couple of months away, the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) yesterday approved 24 development projects worth Tk 24,740 crore, an apparent move to appease voters.

Annual per capita remittance from the male migrants has fallen by 11 percent in 2017 compared to that in 2014, says a new study.

A large number of policemen will be deployed across the country from the day the election schedule is announced.

Dozens of students and their family members demonstrated in front of the capital's Central Hospital yesterday, demanding justice for a fourth grader who died for what her relatives said was wrong treatment at the hospital.

Indonesia steps up a search for an airliner that plunged into the sea with all 189 aboard feared dead, deploying underwater beacons to trace its black box recorders and uncover why an almost-new plane crashed minutes after take-off.

Nasa's Parker Solar Probe, which launched earlier this year, has set a new record for becoming the closest human-made object to the sun, the US space agency announced Monday.

The Bangladesh Bank yesterday gave its final nod to a commercial bank and asked three others to produce documents required to obtain licences.

An alleged drug smuggler was killed in a “gunfight” with Border Guard Bangladesh along Jamalpur border in Kushtia's Daulatpur upazila early yesterday.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to form an inter-ministerial committee to investigate the monopoly of 10 recruiting agencies, which had been engaged in labour recruitment from Bangladesh to Malaysia, and submit the probe report in six months.

All 189 passengers and crew aboard a crashed Indonesian Lion Air jet were likely killed in the accident, rescue officials said yesterday, as they announced they had found human remains and would continue the grim search through the night.

The cabinet yesterday approved major changes to the Representation of the People Order, paving the way for the use of Electronic Voting Machines in polls and relaxing the rules on loan defaulters contesting the polls.

Students, different rights organisations and road safety campaigners yesterday expressed strong condemnation over the recent transport workers' strike, which resulted in the death of an infant, among other things.

Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, whose self-styled Libyan National Army dominates the country's east, was in Rome yesterday for talks ahead of next month's Sicily conference on the conflict-hit North African nation.

Air pollution is slowly easing in EU countries but still causes nearly half a million early deaths each year, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said in its annual report published yesterday.

Mourners held an emotional vigil Sunday for victims of a fatal shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, an assault that saw a gunman who said he "wanted all Jews to die" open fire on a mostly elderly group.

US President Donald Trump yesterday blamed the media once again for "division and hatred" in the country as Americans took stock of a gunman's attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 worshippers.

Angry local communities have warned India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stay away from today's inauguration of the world's biggest statue, a 182 metre (600 feet) high tribute to an independence hero.