A youth was killed and some 80 others were injured when the locomotive of a train rammed its carriages while changing ends at Kaunia Junction in Rangpur yesterday.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday began a visit to South Africa with a call to beef up protection of foreign nationals, weeks after xenophobic attacks in Johannesburg stirred tension between Africa’s leading economies.

A suspected robber was killed in a “gunfight” with police at Mamarishpur in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka upazila early yesterday.

Ferry services on the Paturia-Daulatdia route were disrupted due to strong currents and increasing water-level in the Padma.

An Australian police officer is being investigated after an online video appeared to show him stoning a wombat to death, police said yesterday.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared for his first debate of the 2019 election on Wednesday, clashing with his main rival Andrew Scheer of the Conservative Party just three weeks ahead of the knife-edge vote.

At least seven people were killed when a World War II bomber carrying 13 passengers and crew crashed at an airport in the northeastern US state of Connecticut Wednesday, local media reported.

Police arrested a Chhatra League leader on charge of stabbing a man to death in Sirajganj’s Kazipur upazila on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump yesterday again invited foreign interference in a US presidential election, calling on Ukraine and China to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden - similar to a request that has already triggered an impeachment inquiry in Congress.

A housewife was raped allegedly by her two neighbours in Galachipa upazila early yesterday.

With a meagre income from his small grocery store in Bogura, Rafiqul Islam was the sole breadwinner of his family of five.

Britain and the EU yesterday traded claims about who would be responsible for the failure of a new Brexit deal unveiled by London as the country faces a messy exit from the bloc at the end of October.

Sounding the poll bugle well before West Bengal goes to polls in 2021, Indian Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday took Trinamool Congress chief and state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stating that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would bring in monumental changes in the state.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received a call from her Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan yesterday afternoon and exchanged pleasantries, PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told UNB.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina once again said that the Myanmar government had created the Rohingya problem and they would have to solve it.

A total of 45 Rohingya men, who fled refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar at different times, were detained by police at a house in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila early yesterday.

A top leader of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islam Bangladesh was attempting to reorganise the banned outfit after returning from Dubai, said CTTC officials after arresting him and two others yesterday.

Five bodies have been recovered from under a collapsed bridge in Taiwan, rescuers said yesterday, as the search continued for the last person missing after the structure smashed onto fishing boats moored underneath.

Tunisia’s court of appeal rejected on Tuesday a fresh request to release jailed media mogul and presidential candidate Nabil Karoui, one of his lawyers said, less than two weeks before the runoff.

French authorities have detained for questioning a man suspected of keeping a wild panther in an apartment from where it was rescued, only to be stolen from a zoo, legal sources said.