Law enforcers have claimed arrest of another fugitive of the Holey Artisan Bakery attack case from the northern district of Chapainawabganj. He is the last fugitive in the Holey Artisan case.

Military operations against the Islamic State group in Syria are wrapping up and the last pockets of the jihadists' self-proclaimed "caliphate" will be flushed out within a month, a top commander said.

Miners yesterday closed in on a toddler who fell in a well on January 13 in southern Spain, keeping the country on tenterhooks with a rescue operation fraught with glitches.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declares himself interim president, winning the backing of Washington and many Latin American nations and prompting socialist Nicolas Maduro, who has led the oil-rich nation since 2013, to break relations with the United States.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) allegedly shot dead a Bangladeshi cattle trader along Char Ashariadaha border in Rajshahi's Godagari upazila early yesterday.

The world is "losing the race" against climate change, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned yesterday, demanding bolder action from governments to arrest runaway warming.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation today following the formation of her new government earlier this month.

Indian authorities beat and threatened Rohingyas, forcing some to flee to Bangladesh in recent weeks, said Fortify Rights yesterday.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia expressed strong dissatisfaction with her seating arrangement at the court during the hearing in the Gatco graft case yesterday.

The United States has freed a journalist working for Iran's English-language television station Press TV after 10 days in detention, the channel has announced.

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said yesterday its version of "Sunflowers" will no longer be allowed to travel after restoration work showed it was in a "fragile" condition.

For the first time in a generation, a rare Purple Heron was spotted near a lake in the capital. These birds of Bangladesh are seen only occasionally in the reed beds of large fresh-water lakes called haors.

Rawshan Ara stares lovingly at her one-year-old son while they sit on a railway coupling at the back of the Mymensingh-bound Isha Kha

The UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar yesterday visited Bhashan Char where Dhaka aims to move Rohingya refugees despite worries it would be vulnerable to extreme weather.

A 12-year-old blind girl has allegedly been raped by her father's co-worker in Kalmakanda upazila of Netrakona.

The medical board, formed to conduct medical test on an alleged rape victim in Noakhali's Kabirhat, did not find any evidence of gang rape.

This year's Biswa Ijtema will be held in February as leaders of two factions of Tabligh Jamaat have reached an understanding over holding the congregation, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said yesterday.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, sister of India's Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi, formally entered politics yesterday with the party appointing her general secretary for Uttar Pradesh East in a move reflecting the party's intent to go full throttle in the key political battleground ahead of the general elections.

Bangladesh cricket Board (BCB) announced the squad for the New Zealand ODIs and Sabbir Rahman -- banned from international cricket for six months, has been included in the squad while paceman Taskin Ahmed also makes a return.

The United States confirmed Tuesday that its envoy is meeting in Qatar with the Taliban, seeking to negotiate an end to the Afghanistan war despite a new major attack claimed by the insurgents.