Days of heavy rain could cause flooding or landslides across North Korea, officials warned, as the South said yesterday 16 people had died in the downpours lashing the peninsula.

Human trials on a potential coronavirus vaccine are due to start in Indonesia next week as part of a collaboration between state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma and China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd, a senior researcher said.

Seven people died with coronavirus symptoms at Cumilla Medical College Hospital (CuMCH) in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

Facebook Inc on Wednesday took down a post by US President Donald Trump, which the company said violated its rules against sharing misinformation about the coronavirus.

A private clinic in Jashore town has been sealed off following the death of a celebrated female cricket coach allegedly due to negligence and medical malpractice.

Scientists said Tuesday they had discovered a way to detect space debris even in daylight hours, potentially helping satellites to avoid the ever-growing cloud of junk orbiting the planet.

A metropolitan magistrate court in Chattogram yesterday sent two men to jail on charges of raping three schoolgirls in the town’s Khulshi area.

Doctors in Brazil, the country with the second-highest number of cases and deaths in the coronavirus pandemic, have a new tool in their fight against Covid-19: artificial intelligence to detect infections.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today holds important discussions with Bangladeshi officials in London.

Bangladesh yesterday got the first tranche of the $1 billion loan pledged by Japan to bounce back from economic whiplash brought on by the global coronavirus pandemic.

The nation is observing the 79th death anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore today recalling the great poet who did not leave any human emotion untouched in his works, especially poems and songs.

A German neo-Nazi on trial over the murder of pro-refugee politician Walter Luebcke yesterday admitted to the killing that has shocked the nation and highlighted the growing threat of right-wing extremism.

Describing Sheikh Kamal as a versatile person, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said he could have contributed a lot to society had he been alive today.

The alleged 1MDB mastermind and other suspects in the scandal are believed to be hiding out in China, Malaysia’s police chief said yesterday, urging authorities there to help hunt down the fugitives.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday launched the construction of a Hindu temple on a site that has been contested by Muslims for decades in a dispute that has sparked some of country’s most bloody communal violence.

The global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 700,000 yesterday, according to AFP and Reuters tallies, with the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico leading the rise in fatalities.

With flood water receding, erosion has become devastating in 10 districts, devouring homesteads, croplands, educational institutions and other structures.

Bangladeshi expatriate Rayhan Kabir will be deported by Malaysia once the country’s attorney general’s chambers completes looking into the investigation papers of the case, Malaysia’s Immigration Department Director General Khairul Dzaimee Daud said yesterday.

More than 800 people died of novel coronavirus in India on Monday, the highest number of new deaths in the world for that 24-hour period, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

Police have recovered the body of a teenage boy from the Nagar river near Ratnai border in Baliadangi upazila of Thakurgaon.