A total of 556 people died in 15 plane crashes in 2018, significantly more than the previous year, but long-term trends show safety improving, an aviation watchdog reported.

AMA Muhith yesterday said he would remain as the finance minister for another year, if Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wanted him to do so.

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud yesterday congratulated Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina on her party's victory in the Sunday's parliamentary polls.

A Nasa spacecraft set a new milestone Monday in cosmic exploration by entering orbit around an asteroid, Bennu, the smallest object ever to be circled by a human-made spaceship.

A British police probe into a triple stabbing at a Manchester railway station on New Year's Eve which injured three people is now being treated as "a terrorist investigation", the city's top officer said yesterday.

Nine people have been sued over the gang rape of a woman in Noakhali's Subarnachar upazila on Monday.

The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal yesterday expressed discontent as trial of Jamaat-e-Islami as a party did not begin even five years after completion of a probe over its role in 1971.

Jatiya Party Co-chairman GM Quader will act as its chairman in the absence of party's incumbent Chairman HM Ershad.

The capital's Malibagh neighbourhood turned violent yesterday as garments workers went on a rampage -- vandalising and setting fire to vehicles -- and clashed with police following the death of two girls, including a garment worker in a road accident in the area.

The Election Commission yesterday decided to hold re-elections in three polling centres of Brahmanbaria-2 on January 9, as the polls there were suspended on Sunday.

The presidents of China and the US have exchanged messages vowing to boost cooperation despite a bruising trade war on the 40th anniversary of the countries' diplomatic relations, Chinese state media reported.

A joint force led by the army yesterday recovered a US-made M4A1 assault rifle and 53 bullets from members of the United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) in Khagrachhari's remote Laxmichhari area, police say.

A 13-year-old girl has died by suicide following harassment by her stalkers in Jessore's Benapole, said police.

A US judge who ruled earlier this month that Obamacare is unconstitutional has said the health care law can stand while his decision is appealed.

The death toll from a storm that struck the Philippines shortly after Christmas rose to 68 with the number of fatalities expected to climb even higher, civil defence officials said yesterday.

Thirty Russian children whose mothers are in prison in Iraqi for belonging to the Islamic State arrived Sunday in Moscow from Baghdad, Russian authorities said.

The Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday began counting ballots from a presidential election marked by delays and fears of violence and vote-rigging, straining hopes for its first-ever peaceful transfer of power.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday claimed that they were successful in holding a free, fair, and credible election and that they were satisfied.

Brazil will definitely move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, with only the date of the transfer to be decided, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday during a visit to Rio de Janeiro.

Only nine out of the 39 registered political parties that contested Sunday's national election have secured parliamentary seats.