A French court yesterday ordered a new probe into evidence allegedly linking a Lebanese-Canadian academic to the 1980 deadly bombing of a Paris synagogue before deciding whether to put him on trial.

A special task force has helped law officers around the world to rescue more than 240 victims of child sex abuse and bring almost 100 offenders to justice since 2014, Europol said yesterday.

Fishermen are catching hilsa in the Padma and the Jamuna rivers in Manikganj defying a government ban.

When a Chinese garlic farmer's dream of flying an airplane didn't pan out, he decided to build one instead.

Vandals broke the windows, doors and looted office equipment of a building of Gonoshasthaya Kendra in Savar yesterday, amid cases being filed against its founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury.

The government has promoted 256 senior assistant secretaries to deputy secretaries and 574 assistant professors to associate professors.

After being sued in land grabbing and extortion cases, Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury now stands accused in a case filed for stealing fish and fruit, among other charges.

Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor yesterday said the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom's Istanbul consulate was premeditated, reversing previous official statements that the killing was unintended.

A Chattogram court yesterday placed BNP leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury on a one-day remand in a case filed under the ICT Act and Special Powers Act.

The Election Commission is likely to announce polls schedule following its meeting with President Abdul Hamid at the Bangabhaban on November 1.

Humpback whales are famous for their eerie, underwater songs. But researchers in Japan said Wednesday these massive marine creatures stop singing, at least temporarily, when human-driven ships are nearby.

The Dhaka University authorities have sent a rejoinder to a report headlined “Gha Unit Exam: DU finds proof of question leak” published in The Daily Star on October 24.

With the government declaring it will not make any changes to the Road Transport Act for now, people are likely to face another bout of suffering as transport workers are determined on observing work abstention from Sunday over their demands to amend some sections of the act.

The three ruling party men, allegedly picked up by plainclothes men from Narayanganj's Rupganj, returned home yesterday.

With the three-match ODI series already sealed with a game in hand, Bangladesh will be looking to experiment with the team combination in the third and final game against Zimbabwe at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury stadium in Chattogram today.

Rivals killed a local Sramik League leader after severing his arms below the elbows allegedly over a jhut (leftover pieces of garment fabric) trade feud in the district's Sreepur upazila yesterday.

India and Bangladesh yesterday signed three agreements for allowing New Delhi to use Mongla and Chattogram ports as transit points to access India's northeastern states for trade.

Test flights of a driverless hover-taxi will take place in Singapore next year, a German aviation firm said, the latest innovation to offer an escape from Asia's monster traffic jams.

With only three days left for the ban on fishing hilsa to end, fishermen in the district are yet to get rice as assistance from the government.

Customers are yet to reap the benefit of the record fall in the price of lentil in the wholesale hub of Khatunganj in Chattogram as retailers are yet to set their prices to reflect the decreased costs.