Akkelpur municipality and Gopinathpur village in Akkelpur upazila of Joypurhat district have been declared free from drug trading, robbery, mugging and stealing.

Police arrested nine activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir from a students' mess in Rangpur city yesterday on charge of planning subversive activities.

Angela Merkel may be the most powerful politician in Europe, but she has rarely shown much inclination for bold leadership. Both in

The EU executive has drawn up a new set of national quotas under which Germany will take in more than 40,000 and France 30,000 of a

Vilified as a heartless penny-pincher during the Greek crisis, Germany is winning plaudits in the other great challenge facing Europe this year through the warm welcome it has given to refugees.

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday underlined her call for European counterparts to do more to find a solution to a historic wave of migrants seeking asylum, as documents showed the European Commission will lay out potentially controversial proposals to better share the burden of the spiralling crisis.

Elizabeth, now 89, ascended to the throne in 1952 at the twilight of British empire, with Britain slowly emerging from the ravages of World War Two.

The British government is poised to accept 15,000 Syrian refugees and hopes next month to get backing for air strikes against Islamic

Villagers of the areas surrounding Barapukuia Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL) staged demonstration and held a rally yesterday at the mine site demanding arrest of two employees of the company for their alleged attempt to rape a woman.

In Hungary, hundreds of migrants surrounded by armed police officers were tricked into boarding a train with promises of freedom,

Finland's Prime Minister Juha Sipila yesterday said he would offer his home to refugees.

EU foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini said the refugee influx, which has opened deep divisions in the bloc, is here to stay and

Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden criticised Russia, the country that has granted him asylum.

Around 2,000 refugees have arrived at Austria's border from Hungary, and the numbers could more than double through the day, Austrian police say.

Two treasure hunters claiming to have discovered a Nazi "gold train" went public for the first time but failed to reveal evidence for the alleged.

Ugly scenes erupted in Hungary yesterday as migrants fought their way onto what they thought was the first train to western Europe in days, only to be left feeling tricked as police halted the train and tried to move them to a refugee camp. Mayhem ensued at the small train station of Bicske where it was stopped, including when one man pulled a woman and a baby onto the train tracks and refused to be moved before several bulky police dragged him off.

French prosecutors yesterday confirmed that a wing part found on a remote Indian Ocean island was from ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a month after tests on the flaperon began.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban yesterday warned that the wave of refugees and migrants coming to Europe and the EU's "failed immigration policy"

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi yesterday said that Europe could not just limit itself to an emotional reaction to pictures of asylum-seekers dying, but had

Four Turkish police were killed yesterday in a bomb attack on their vehicle in the country's southeast blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),