Thirteen people, most of them students, were killed when a pick-up truck flipped over while trying to change lanes yesterday in the Thai capital, police said.

Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has expressed reservations about a recent court decision decriminalising assisted suicide, in comments to the Corriere della Sera newspaper published Saturday.

Donald Trump’s administration is amping up an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, The Washington Post reported Saturday, breathing new life into a pet issue used by the president to rail against his opponent during the 2016 elections.

French police repeatedly used tear gas and water cannons to break up a protest Saturday by nearly a 1,000 yellow vest demonstrators in the southwest city of Toulouse.

The bodies of seven Moroccans were recovered close to Casablanca Saturday after their boat was shipwrecked trying to reach Spain, Moroccan officials said.

Uttam Barua, the Buddhist youth whose Facebook page image was doctored with an anti-Islam post to incite the 2012 Ramu attack, is still missing.

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot a Bangladeshi cattle trader in Thakurgaon’s Baliadangi upazila early yesterday.

Wary of international interference, Myanmar insisted Saturday it wants Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled to neighbouring Bangladesh repatriated to their former homes so they can live in a “more conducive environment” than the one they left.

Almost a month after the formation of a “high level” taskforce, initiated to curb road accidents and bring discipline to the transport section, the government is yet to issue a circular or gazette in this regard.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday expressed deep concern over the government move to amend the Road Transport Act-2018 amid pressure from transport owners and workers’ associations.

Sharmin Afroz, a housewife, does not know what to do. Her two school-going children, aged seven and eleven, would only take porridge with milk for their breakfast. But Sharmin, 39, is not sure if she should allow her children to take pasteurised milk anymore.

About one-third of higher education institutions in the Asia-Pacific region have taken measures for machine learning, reveals a study by Microsoft Asia and International Data Corporation (IDC) Asia/Pacific.

At least 40 people, including six policemen, were injured in Madaripur Sadar upazila yesterday as a factional clash of Bangladesh Chhatra League ensued during celebration of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina’s birthday.

An early Renaissance masterpiece by the Florentine master Cimabue has been discovered in an old lady’s kitchen in a town near Paris, art experts said.

The underprivileged people of Borangile village in Sirajganj’s Chauhali upazila can sleep a little better at night, knowing that if they are ever unable to find work as day labourers the next day, they can easily borrow some rice from the community food bank.

The BNP was yesterday given a conditional police approval for holding a rally in Rajshahi city today.

A huge blast on an oil tanker in a South Korean port Saturday sparked a raging fire that spread to a nearby vessel, leaving 18 people injured, authorities said.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Guinea on Saturday to “speed up” the trial for those responsible for a massacre on more than 150 opposition supporters exactly 10 years ago.

Malaysia does not want to take a confrontational stance towards China over the disputed South China Sea and Beijing’s alleged mistreatment of its minority Uighur Muslims, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in an interview published on Saturday.

Bangladesh has submitted the instrument of ratification on prohibition of nuclear weapons to the treaty section of the United Nations.