Russia has bombed the Islamic State group in the heaviest strikes in eastern Syria since the war began, as Moscow's military manoeuvres in the Mediterranean forced Lebanon to reroute flights.

The World Health Organization yesterday confirmed that a new case of the deadly Ebola virus has surfaced in Liberia, which was declared

Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the woman believed to have blown herself up during the police raid that killed the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, swapped her party-girl persona for that of an Islamist radical just months before her death.

The top suspect behind last week's Paris attacks was watched by police being led into a building by a woman suicide bomber the evening before they both died there during a raid by special forces, a police source said yesterday.

The suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, has been identified as one of those killed in a raid in Saint Denis, the Paris prosecutor says.

Local people caught two abductors red handed when they made an attempt to kidnap a schoolgirl in Munshiganj Sadar upazila yesterday.

A woman suicide bomber blew herself up in a police raid that sources said had foiled a jihadi plan to hit Paris's business district, days after attacks that killed 129 across the French capital.

Yet another foreigner came under attack by unidentified assailants in Dinajpur yesterday, around one and a half months after two others were shot dead in the capital and Rangpur.

The government has ordered blocking popular social networking platform Facebook and online messaging and calling services WhatsApp and Viber this morning.

Armed police have raided a flat in the north Paris suburb of Saint Denis in an operation linked to Friday's attacks.

French security sources say that surveillance video shows a possible ninth assailant during Friday's attacks in which 129 people died.

French warplanes pounded Islamic State targets and Russia vowed to ramp up its bombing campaign in Syria

The Supreme Court has set a fresh date, tomorrow, for the review hearing on war criminal and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s death penalty.

The American who was killed in the assault on Paris celebrated her 23rd birthday there last month. Nohemi Gonzalez was a student at Cal State-Long Beach on a semester abroad.

Quick thinking, solid security, attackers' mistakes may have averted massacre at Paris stadium.

India assures of sharing information on militancy with Bangladesh, says Senior Secretary to the Home Ministry Mozammel Haque Khan. He was talking to reporters following a secretary-level meeting between Bangladesh and its neighbouring India.

A German minister yesterday warned against drawing a hasty link between refugees and perpetrators of the deadly Paris attacks, warning that the IS group could be trying to exploit the debate over Europe's migrant influx.

Twelve French warplanes have bombarded Raqqa, the de facto “capital” of IS in Syria, two days after bombing and gun attacks in Paris killed 129 people. The air strikes late on Sunday were the first since the Paris attacks, and saw 12 French air force planes drop 20 bombs on Islamic State group positions.

A pianist plays John Lennon's ‘Imagine’ on a portable piano at a memorial close to the Bataclan concert hall in Paris where at 89 people were killed.

"A breeding ground for violence" the mayor of Molenbeek called her town, speaking of unemployment and overcrowding among Arab immigrant families, of youthful despair finding refuge in radical Islam.