Five workers were killed and three injured in a factory explosion caused by a gas leak in eastern China, local authorities said yesterday.

A political meddling scandal threatening Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's re-election bid was given fresh impetus Friday with the release of messages and a secret recording supplied by his former attorney general.

Alaska residents accustomed to subzero temperatures are experiencing a heat wave of sorts that is shattering records, with the thermometer jumping to more than 30 degrees Fahrenheit (16.7 Celsius) above normal in some regions.

At least six people, including a woman and her daughter, were killed in separate road accidents in Noakhali and Cumilla yesterday.

Egypt's most prominent pro-democracy activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, was released on probation yesterday after five years in prison on charges of organising an illegal protest.

Twitter said Thursday it could start tagging tweets from newsworthy figures such as US President Donald Trump that break its rules, while stopping short of deleting them.

US President Donald Trump will host his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in next month, Seoul said yesterday, after the latest summit between Washington and Pyongyang ended in deadlock.

The Election Commission has suspended election in Pirojpur's Mathbaria upazila and Noakhali's Kabirhat upazila over polls related violence between the ruling party men and its rebel candidates.

Lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal for a third time yesterday, sounding its probable death knell and leaving Britain's withdrawal from the European Union in turmoil on the very day it was supposed to leave the bloc.

The UN Security Council ordered countries worldwide to step up the fight against terrorism financing Thursday by ensuring they have laws that make it a serious crime to fund terrorist acts.

On this day in 1971, the ruthless Pakistan army opened fire in the in the surrounding areas of Rangpur Cantonment, killing many innocent civilians.

Law enforcers had been nonchalant for years when thousands of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis were facing heinous crimes, including murders and burial in mass graves, in the bordering hilly regions of Thailand and Malaysia.

A Maori lament echoed across Christchurch yesterday as a survivor of the New Zealand mosque attacks told a national remembrance service he had forgiven the gunman responsible for the racist massacre that took his wife, and shocked the world.

A woman was beaten to death for protesting drug peddling at Tanbazar in Narayanganj city last evening.

Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim yesterday said the people who lost their lives in Thursday's fire at a Banani building were murdered.

When the deadly fire was razing through the FR Tower in Banani yesterday, thousands of “over-enthusiastic” people poured into the Kamal Ataturk Avenue, giving the firefighters a tough time while running the rescue operation.

Singapore yesterday defended nominating its street food for UN recognition as a bid to "safeguard" local culture after the move sparked a cross-border culinary clash with Malaysia.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party has accused his main election rival of "corruption" ahead of an April 9 poll as the

A parliamentary body yesterday asked the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to set up necessary number of fire hydrants in the capital to fight fire accidents.

Pope Francis heads to Morocco tomorrow, the first pope to do so in 35 years, with interreligious dialogue and immigration on the agenda.