Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has cancelled the licence of three bottled and jar water brands and suspended operations of seven others after finding their water unsafe.

Human Rights Watch yesterday accused authorities in the United Arab Emirates of mistreating and denying adequate medical care to a terminally-ill Emirati woman in prison on terrorism charges.

Black snow falling in Siberia due to air loaded with coal dust yesterday prompted the regional governor to temporarily close a coal processing plant he accused of killing residents.

Sara Danius yesterday resigned from the Swedish Academy that selects the Nobel Prize in Literature, almost a year after she was forced out as permanent secretary by a #MeToo scandal.

US-backed forces in eastern Syria yesterday screened and treated truckloads of suspected jihadists and relatives who left a village where the Islamic State group's "caliphate" is making its last stand.

A “rebel” faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League and quota reformists yesterday announced their panels to contest the upcoming Dhaka University Central Students' Union election.

Four alleged members of a Sundarban-based robber gang were killed yesterday in a “gunfight” with Rab in Chandpai range of the forest in Satkhira, Rab said.

Civil society groups monitoring Nigeria's presidential and parliamentary election said yesterday that 39 people have been killed in violence linked to the vote.

The father of London teenager Shamima Begum, who married an Islamic State group militant in Syria, insisted in an interview with AFP yesterday that Britain must take her back before deciding any punishment.

United States Vice President Mike Pence passed on a message from Donald Trump to Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido yesterday, telling him "we are with you 100 percent."

A ninth grader was allegedly raped by her neighbour in a village of Jashore's Jhikargachha upazila on Sunday night.

An SSC examinee suffered severe burns in an acid attack allegedly over a land dispute at Debidanga Jhargaon village in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila on Sunday night.

Australian fashion brands have cared more for their clothes than the people making those, reveals a new report.

With a heavy heart, the nation yesterday observed the 10th anniversary of the Pilkhana carnage that left 74 people, including 57 army officers, dead.

Only the Awami League candidate conducted electioneering at full throttle during the campaign of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral by-polls which officially ends tonight, while contenders from other parties were almost absent.

Villagers have pressed charges against Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) over the incident of firing in Lalmonirhat that left three villagers dead earlier this month.

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe yesterday urged partners to commit to stand with Paris in driving back jihadi violence in the Sahel.

Three UN peacekeepers in Mali have been killed by suspected bandits while travelling on leave along the road from the capital Bamako to neighbouring Guinea, sources said.

The Revolutionary Guards yesterday accused "enemies" of Iran of trying to sabotage the country's missiles so that they would "explode mid-air" but said the bid was foiled.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office said in a sentencing memo released Saturday that President Donald Trump's former campaign director Paul Manafort was a "bold" criminal who "repeatedly and brazenly" broke the law.