At least 20 people were killed and 48 wounded yesterday by a powerful suicide blast apparently targeting the Shia Hazara ethnic minority at a crowded fruit market in Pakistan's Quetta city, officials said.

A Joypurhat court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of raping a seven-year-old physically challenged girl in the district's Kalai upazila.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange woke up in a British jail yesterday at the start of a likely lengthy extradition battle after a dramatic end to his seven-year stay in Ecuador's London embassy.

Hajj pilgrims can now have their immigration process completed at Dhaka airport before leaving for Saudi Arabia.

At least eight people -- five women and three children -- were killed and 30 others injured as a bus fell into a roadside ditch in Joypurhat Sadar upazila yesterday.

Political and regional identities are getting preference for being appointed as teachers in public universities instead of academic qualities, compromising the quality of education, said Prof Sayeed Ferdous, of anthropology department at Jahangirnagar University.

An 8th grader was allegedly raped by two villagers at Haringhata Reserve Forest in Barguna on Thursday.

Indonesia is probing vote-rigging claims after the discovery of thousands of stray election ballots in neighbouring Malaysia, officials said, as the opposition threatens to challenge next week's poll results over separate voter list irregularities.

US President Donald Trump's controversial ban on transgender Americans in the military comes into force yesterday following a protracted legal battle.

The White House pushed immigration authorities to release illegal migrants onto the streets of so-called "sanctuary cities" to retaliate against US President Donald Trump's political enemies, the Washington Post reported yesterday.

A US warship laden with hi-tech fighter planes took centre stage at key war games in the Philippines yesterday, brandishing military might as fresh tensions bubble in the contentious South China Sea.

The headteacher of a government primary school in Dagonbhuiyan of Feni yesterday told a court that he had raped a class-V student multiple times over the last couple of months.

The High Court would interfere if it finds negligence into the probe of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case.

A Dhaka court yesterday accepted charges against six members of banned militant outfit Ansar-Al-Islam in a case filed over writer-blogger Avijit Roy murder on February 26, 2015.

A new migrant caravan of around a thousand Hondurans hit out for the United States border on Wednesday in defiance of threats from US President Donald Trump.

At least five students and two teachers were injured in primary school classrooms in Brahmanbaria and Narayanganj yesterday as chunks of ceiling plasters fell on them.

The human family tree has acquired a new branch with the unearthing of a previously unknown species of human that lived on an island in today's Philippines some 50,000 years ago.

A Thakurgaon court yesterday dismissed the complaints lodged by family members of the three villagers killed in a BGB firing in Haripur upazila's Baharampur village in the district on February 12.

President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan in autocratic style for 30 years, was yesterday overthrown and arrested in a coup by the armed forces.

Four alleged criminals were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers and drug peddlers in Dhaka, Chattogram, Meherpur and Cox's Bazar yesterday.