An Iraqi man was yesterday sentenced to life in jail by a German court for the rape and murder of a teenage girl that fuelled far-right protests against a mass influx of mostly Muslim migrants.

Bulgaria will buy eight F-16 fighter jets to replace its ageing Soviet-built MiG-29 planes, its deputy defence minister said yesterday.

France will stop reimbursing patients for homeopathic treatment from 2021, the health minister said in an interview published yesterday, infuriating manufacturers but also disappointing doctors who wanted an immediate halt.

Saimun, one of those accused in the sensational Rifat Sharif murder case, has once again been placed on remand.

A suspected robber was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila early yesterday.

Britain’s ambassador to Washington resigned yesterday after being targeted by US President Donald Trump following the leak of highly critical diplomatic cables.

Police yesterday arrested a man for raping his daughter-in-law in Kurigram, while another was arrested on Tuesday for attempting to rape a minor in Natore.

Gorillas form social bonds in a strikingly similar way to humans, including tiers of old friends and family members, according to a study released yesterday that may provide insight into how mankind evolved its social behaviour.

Six fishermen drowned and six others were missing after a fishing trawler capsized near Seagull Point in the Bay of Bengal in inclement weather.

A rickshaw puller allegedly went on a killing spree, hacking three neighbours dead and injuring six others, before he was caught and beaten to death by villagers yesterday morning in Cumilla’s Debidwer.

Renowned media personality Muhammad Jahangir, also executive director of Centre for Development Communication, passed away early yesterday at the age of 68.

The Jatiya Rickshaw-Van Shramik League yesterday suspended their road block movement, following assurances of separate lanes on highways for rickshaws and a relax on the ban on the three-wheelers in three major city roads.

Blasting the prime minister for her argument in favour of hiking gas prices, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the price was increased to serve the interest of some ruling party men.

Parliament last night passed the Law and Order Disruption (Speedy Trial) (Amendment) Bill, 2019, extending its validity till 2024.

Britain said Monday it had barred Russia’s RT and Sputnik news organisations from a global conference on media freedom in London because of their “active role in spreading disinformation”.

West Africa suffers the most inequalities on the continent but many governments prefer to ignore problems despite economic growth, a report by Oxfam and Development Finance International said yesterday.

The death toll from a fuel pipeline blast in Nigeria’s commercial hub Lagos has risen to 12, a senior official said, after ten victims died of their injuries from last week’s explosion.

Flamboyant French businessman Bernard Tapie was yesterday acquitted on charges of defrauding the state of more than 400 million euros ($450 million) with a massive 2008 arbitration award that has also ensnared IMF chief Christine Lagarde.

The High Court yesterday rejected the writ petition which sought a stay order on the government decision to hike the price of gas.

The migrant rescue boat Alan Kurdi has saved another 44 people, including women and infants from their stricken vessel in the Mediterranean, its operator German charity Sea-Eye said yesterday.