Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan showed off their newborn son to the world yesterday, describing having a baby as “magic”.

A prompt response from a 14-year-old boy prevented what could have been a fatal train accident in Moulvibazar, railways officials said. On his way home around 11:00pm on Tuesday, Abul Hossain, a ninth grader of Kamudpur High School in Kamalganj upazila, noticed a broken fishplate lying disconnected from the railway tracks

The High Court yesterday asked a writ petitioner to inform the court by May 13 about the areas where water supplied by the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority is highly contaminated and unsafe. Supreme Court lawyer and writ petitioner Tanvir Ahmed

A first grader of a primary school was allegedly raped by a teenaged boy in Dinajpur yesterday, while a teenaged mother was allegedly raped by a young man in Gazipur on Tuesday.

A suicide blast at one of Pakistan’s oldest and most popular Sufi shrines killed at least 10 people and wounded 24 in the eastern city of Lahore yesterday, police said, in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.

A Chinese citizen was held with 24 gold bars, weighing around 2.8 kilogrammes, at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram yesterday. Fan Ronggui, 30, a passenger of flight no. DG-148 of a Biman Bangladesh flight from Dubai, was detained with gold worth Tk 1.20 crore found inside a rechargeable light

Seven hikers were missing and feared dead after an avalanche in Russia’s Altai mountains, emergency officials said yesterday, as search parties were dispatched to the area.

Several thousand women from about 20 villages in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila are becoming self-reliant by making handicrafts, playing a key role in earning foreign currency as these handmade products are exported to different countries.

Boko Haram fighters have killed nine people in two separate attacks in northeastern Nigeria, looting and torching a village and ambushing three farmers, officials and local militia forces said yesterday.

Mexican authorities found Tuesday human remains that confirm the death of the 13 people on board a luxury jet that crashed over the weekend in the north of the country.

Two former heavyweights of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party have criticised a decision to re-run the Istanbul mayoral election, expressing concern the decision would damage the state’s reputation.

Four women were freed “safe and sound” Tuesday after being held hostage for five hours by an armed teenager at a bar on the outskirts of the southern French city of Toulouse, officials said.

Sudanese protest and opposition leaders yesterday called for civil disobedience in response to the military’s “disappointing” answer to their interim constitutional proposals.

An Egyptian court yesterday upheld the death sentences of 13 Islamic militants for attacks against security forces, a judicial official said.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad may visit Bangladesh sometime later this year, according to foreign ministry officials.

Sri Lankan authorities have arrested or killed all the jihadists responsible for Easter suicide bombings, but the island still faces the threat of IS terror attacks, the prime minister said yesterday.

Two Reuters journalists jailed for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar walked out of prison yesterday, freed in a presidential amnesty after a vigorous global campaign -- and backroom diplomacy -- for their release.

Three people, including two suspected drug traders, died in “gunfights” with the police and the Rab in Dhaka, Munshiganj, and Rangpur yesterday.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has seen a sharp rise in ticket sales which the aviation ministry claims was due to a drive against corruption in ticketing.

The number of schools and madrasas with zero pass rates in the SSC exams has more than doubled since 2015, thanks to the lack of qualified teachers, adequate infrastructures and strict government action against the poor performing institutions.