Five Asiatic black bear cubs were rescued from a remote stretch of northern Laos and are being nursed back to health at a sanctuary, NGO Free the Bears said yesterday, calling the one-day rescue the largest in its 24-year history.

An Iraqi fighter killed in a drone attack late Sunday near the western border with Syria was buried yesterday morning near Baghdad, the powerful Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force said.

Violence is pushing Hong Kong to the brink of great danger, the city government said yesterday, after a weekend of clashes that included the first gun-shot and the arrest of 86 people, the youngest just 12.

A third Rohingya man suspected of murdering Jubo League leader Omar Faruk was killed in an alleged gunfight with police in Teknaf upazila early yesterday.

US President Donald Trump yesterday offered an olive branch to China after days of intense feuding over trade that has spooked financial markets and he opened the door to diplomacy with Iran, easing tensions on the last day of a strained G7 summit.

The 43rd death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is being observed across the country today. The poet breathed his last at the then PG Hospital, now Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, in the city on 12th Bhadra of Bangla calendar year 1383 (August 29, 1976) at the age of 77.

Siraj Ud Daula, the prime accused in the Nusrat murder case, yesterday confessed to ordering two of his students to spread a rumour that she had died by suicide.

Surgeons at National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) in the capital have successfully completed a minimally invasive surgery, first of its kind at a public hospital in the country, on a 12-year-old girl named Nupur.

Nauru’s president, a strong supporter of Australia’s hardline policy of detaining refugees on the tiny Pacific island nation, has lost his seat in a general election, official results showed yesterday.

An Iranian court has sentenced writer and satirist Kioomars Marzban to 11 years in prison after convicting him of charges including cooperation with the United States, state media reported.

The High Court yesterday ruled that the word “Kumari” (virgin) cannot be used before the bride’s name in “Kabinnama”, the Muslim marriage deed.

A mother of two has first been raped at her home and then tortured at a local arbitration in Dinajpur’s Biral upazila, alleged locals.

A man died in police custody three hours after his arrest yesterday afternoon in Nasirnagar upazila.

Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah yesterday said one of two drones that came down over its Beirut stronghold was rigged with explosives and caused damage to its media centre.

Two months after taking oath, BNP lawmaker Rumeen Farhana sought allotment of a 10 katha plot in Dhaka’s Purbachal from the government she terms “illegal”.

A young girl riding on a motorcycle with her father in New Delhi has died after a glass-coated kite string slit her throat, reports said yesterday, the second incident in a week.

At least 10 people, including children, were injured as miscreants attacked a Hindu family in Patuakhali yesterday afternoon.

A Muslim man left in a coma after being interrogated at a notorious Thai detention centre died yesterday, as pressure mounts on the army to release further findings of a probe into the case.

Brazil yesterday deployed two Hercules C-130 aircraft to douse fires devouring parts of the Amazon rainforest, as hundreds of new blazes were ignited ahead of nationwide protests over the destruction.

The Lalmonirhat Airport, abandoned since World War II, is set to be transformed into Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Aviation and Aerospace University (BSMRAAU), the first of its kind in the country.