Britain’s Supreme Court began considering legal challenges to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s controversial decision to suspend parliament for over a month, as the country’s political crisis over Brexit intensifies.

Skipping school to glide through a dirty Bangkok canal on a paddleboard, Lilly fishes out rubbish in her mission to clean up Thailand, where the average person uses eight plastic bags every single day.

Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens more in two blasts yesterday -- one at a campaign rally for the president and the other in Kabul -- with the insurgents warning of more violence ahead of elections.

The young journalist who was suspended from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) started receiving death threats.

Bangladesh will be looking for much more than just a win when they step out to take on Zimbabwe in the opener of the Chattogram leg of the ongoing tri-nation T20I series -- involving Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan -- at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium today.

Parbatya Bangalee Chhatra Parishad, a platform of Bangalee settlers in the Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT), filed another case against the Bandarban correspondent of The Daily Star for using the word “indigenous” in a report.

The headmaster of a government primary school in Patuakhali has been suspended as a probe found him guilty of sexually harassing female students.

A loud, screeching alarm pierced through the otherwise peaceful evening in a stretch of the Malian desert in West Africa around 7:30pm. The resting Bangladeshi soldiers -- stationed in the Saharan country as part of a UN peacekeeping mission -- sprung into action at the siren.

The government plans to open a portion of the rail route connecting Dhaka to Jashore through the Padma bridge by June 2021 as the problems in the rail project’s design have been resolved.

The red and green flag fluttering by the side of one of the many dirt roads in Bamako is a welcoming sight to a visiting Bangladeshi.

The High Court yesterday directed the Rajshahi chief judicial magistrate to conduct an enquiry into the alleged manipulation of the first information report (FIR) of a murder case by Puthia Police Station OC Shakil Uddin Ahammed.

The Shampadak Parishad (Editors’ Council) has formed its new executive committee with The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam as its president and Bangladesh Protidin Editor Naem Nizam as general secretary.

Some 175 Bangladeshi workers returned home from Saudi Arabia on Sunday night amid a crackdown on undocumented workers there.

Economic growth in Israel and chronic unemployment in the occupied West Bank is seeing more Palestinians cross to the “enemy” side seeking work.

Spain’s King Felipe VI yesterday began meeting parliamentary leaders in an eleventh-hour bid to form a government and head off what would be the country’s fourth elections in as many years.

Indian authorities were engaged in a major search and rescue operation yesterday to find 39 people missing after their tour boat capsized in a fast-flowing swollen river.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested a Jubo League leader of Bandarban on charge of swindling Tk 50 lakh out of Agrani Bank Ltd.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for having an accommodative attitude towards relations among neighbouring countries for the sake of mutual development.

A suspected robber was killed in what police claimed was a gunfight between police and armed cohorts of the suspect in Rajbari’s Sadar Upazila early yesterday.

Oil prices made their biggest jump since the Gulf War yesterday after President Donald Trump warned that the US was “locked and loaded” to respond to attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure that Washington blamed on Iran.