Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves this morning for a three-day visit to Munich, Germany, where she will join other world leaders in a security conference. Afterwards, she will pay a bilateral visit to the UAE on her way back home.

The High Court yesterday fined a former district and sessions judge Tk 5,000 for not providing an HC judge with protocol in 2003.

A 16-year-old indigenous girl was allegedly raped by her employer in Dhaka's Kalachandpur area yesterday.

The High Court yesterday ordered the Bangladesh Bank to submit a list of borrowers with more than Tk 1 crore in default loans as part of its efforts to salvage the banking sector from its current unstable situation.

Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, whose news site has repeatedly clashed with President Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested at her Manila office yesterday in what press freedom advocates branded an act of "persecution".

Belgium slowed to a standstill yesterday as a national strike closed airports, shuttered businesses and caused major disruption to railways.

Pakistani authorities yesterday vowed to carry out a "massive" crackdown targeting hate speech and extremism on social media, as a minister boasted arrests have already been made.

Cameroon opposition leader Maurice Kamto, who says he was cheated out of the presidency in elections last year, has been charged with "rebellion" and "insurrection", one of his lawyers said yesterday.

A Kenyan pilot and four foreigners have died after a small plane carrying them from Kenya's Maasai Mara nature reserve crashed in the west of the country, police said yesterday.

Five people were killed in southeast Nigeria during clashes between supporters of the two main political parties, police said Monday, just days before a general election.

A Japanese cultivator of bonsai trees yesterday appealed for the thieves who made off with his expensive potted plants to take good care of them.

Food contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites and toxic chemicals is a mounting health hazard and a crippling economic burden, a global conference on food safety has been told.

The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) yesterday knocked down 118 structures, including three two-storey buildings, in the city's Shaheed Nagar and Kamrangirchar areas as part of its ongoing drive to demolish illegal establishments along the Buriganga.

Bangladesh will be hoping to seal their first ever victory against New Zealand in their own backyard when they take on Kane Williamson's side in the first of three ODIs at McLean Park in Napier today.

The High Court yesterday directed police to complete investigation in arms and drug-related cases and submit reports to the courts concerned within a month after the cases are filed.

Supporters of three Islamist organisations attacked and vandalised four houses of Ahmadiyya Muslims in Ahmednagar village of Panchagarh Sadar upazila last night, officials said.

An alleged robber was killed in a “gunfight” with police in the capital's Wari area early yesterday.

At least 17 people die as a fire tore through a budget hotel in Delhi, in the latest disaster to raise concerns over fire safety in India.

Today's SSC exam on Career Education has been postponed and will now take place on March 2, as some MCQ questions of the subject were mistakenly printed in the question papers of ICT test held under Jashore Education Board yesterday, said officials.

The High Court yesterday observed that the media cannot publish names, addresses and photos of children involved in criminal cases.