US President Barack Obama yesterday vowed to step up efforts to eliminate Islamic State in Syria and prevent it from carrying out attacks like those in Paris, while European leaders urged Russia to focus its military efforts on the radical Islamists.

The Paris terror attacks are likely to galvanize a stronger global military response to Islamic State, after a US-led air war that has lasted more than a year has failed to contain a group now proving itself to be a growing worldwide threat.

Unknown caller threatens noted writer Prof Hasan Azizul Haque with death over phone.

White House hopeful Hillary Clinton calls for global unity to crush the Islamic State group, as the carnage in Paris took center stage at Saturday's Democratic presidential debate.

Mourners across the globe reacted to the attacks in Paris with tears, shows of solidarity and condemnations of those who carried out the assaults

A youth, who was seriously injured in a clash at Kalia village in Bagerhat Sadar upazila on Friday, died at Bangabandhu

US President Barack Obama pledges his government's support to France after a series of attacks in Paris, but says he did not yet know the details of what had happened and that the situation is still unfolding.

New York, Boston and other cities in the United States bolster security after deadly gun and bomb attacks on civilians in Paris, but law enforcement officials say the beefed-up police presence is precautionary rather than a response to any specific threats.

A Dhaka court again gives Criminal Investigation Department (CID) more time to complete further probe into the case filed over killing Maj Gen Abul Manzur in 1981.

Popular social networking platform Facebook turns down all requests of the Bangladesh government for information about users in the first half of this year.

A judge has sentenced a white supremacist to death for the killing of three people at two Jewish centres.

Donald Trump reiterated his pledge during Tuesday's Republican presidential debate to deport millions of undocumented workers, a plan trashed by rivals including Jeb Bush, who warned overzealous anti-immigrant sentiment would be a gift to Democrats.

Margaret Thatcher gave George H W Bush a trademark handbagging over Cold War diplomacy, which included a 'lecture on freedom' when he was the newly-elected US president, it has emerged.

The court’s verdict on Parimal Chandra Joydhar in the rape case filed over violating a Viqarunnisa Noon School student is set to be delivered on November 25.

The White House launches a Facebook page for US President Barack Obama and used the social media platform to send a message on climate change.

Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan tells the parliament that there is no unfit river vessel in the country.

Only nine percent of the admission seekers passed the entry tests to Dhaka University’s ‘Gha’ unit under social sciences faculty.

The High Court grants six months’ ad interim bail to sacked mayor of Gazipur City Corporation MA Mannan in two violence cases paving way for him to walk out of jail.

Two marshals in the US state of Louisiana are to be charged with murder after the fatal shooting of a six-year-old boy.

US President Barack Obama rejects the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada in a victory for environmentalists who campaigned against the project for more than seven years.