Rabeya Khatun, an 86-year-old woman from Manikganj who had been visiting the Dhaka judge court premises for justice for last 17 years, has finally been acquitted in an arms case filed in 2002.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday locked horns with his rivals in a fiery debate, setting the tone for an unpredictable early general election aimed at breaking Britain’s protracted Brexit deadlock.

A Chattogram court yesterday sentenced BNP Vice-chairman Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury to three years’ imprisonment in a case filed over issuing death threat to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and making derogatory comments about her.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to deliver its verdict today on whether ATM Azharul Islam, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, would be acquitted of charges related to war crimes.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said financial incentives in the leather sector would continue for at least the next five years to achieve the target of export earnings from the leather goods and footwear industry.

An English tourist had his foot bitten off by a shark while another was bitten during the attack in the Whitsunday Islands near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef yesterday, officials said.

The Taliban should call a one-month ceasefire to prove they still control their forces, Afghanistan’s national security advisor said yesterday, amid signs the US wants to rekindle talks with the insurgents.

Washington’s sanctions against Tehran have drastically constrained its ability to pay for humanitarian imports and are threatening the health rights of Iranians, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday pressed charges against five people in a case filed over forgery in the design of FR Tower in the capital’s Banani area.

Thailand is set to open its first centre to combat fake news, a minister said yesterday, the latest Asian country to push for greater cyber scrutiny in what activists fear is a smokescreen for targeting critics.

A young man was beaten to death in the capital’s Hajaribagh last night allegedly for protesting the sexual harassment of his friend.

Scientists said yesterday they are closing in on a new game-changing vaccine for tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease that claimed some 1.5 million lives last year.

A British MP who headed a parliamentary committee probing drug policies is facing a six-month suspension after a lengthy inquiry into claims he offered to pay for cocaine.

Police arrested six people on charge of gang-raping a woman, while a madrasa teacher was sent to jail for sexually harassing a student.

Buet students demanding justice for Abrar Fahad yesterday vowed not to return to classes or sit for exams until the authorities met their 10-point demand.

Three men were killed in what Rab said was a gunfight with their members in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila early yesterday.

The results of Junior School Certificate and Junior Dakhil Certificate examinations are likely to be published under four-point grading scale from 2020, said Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday.

Britain was heading towards its first December election in almost a century after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s bet on breaking the Brexit deadlock with an early ballot gained support from opposition parties yesterday.

Modern humans emerged 200,000 years ago in a region of northern Botswana, scientists claimed Monday, in what appeared to be the most precise location of mankind’s “ancestral homeland” yet discovered.

The United States has given the remains of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi a burial at sea and afforded him religious rites according to Islamic custom after he was killed in a US commando raid in Syria on Saturday, three officials told Reuters.