Transport workers called an indefinite strike in 10 districts of Khulna division protesting the life term imprisonment of a bus driver in a case filed over a road accident that killed five people, including noted filmmaker Tareque Masud and cinematographer Mishuk Munier, reports UNB from Benapole. Bangladesh…

A suicide assault on two security service bases in Syria’s third city of Homs killed dozens of people, including a top intelligence chief, yesterday,…

An Indonesian woman arrested for the murder of the half-brother of North Korea’s leader has said she was given 400 Malaysian ringgits ($90) to carry out a prank, reports BBC. Indonesian embassy officials met Siti Aisyah, 25, yesterday in the Malaysian capital. She said she was given the cash to…

A lawyer says the son of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali was detained by immigration officials at a Florida airport, reports AP from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Chris Mancini tells the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky that 44-year-old Muhammad Ali Jr. and his mother Khalilah Camacho-Ali, the second…

The son of football legend Pele turned himself in late Friday after being ordered by a Brazilian court to begin serving a nearly 13-year prison sentence for money laundering and drug trafficking, reports AFP from Sao Paulo. Edson "Edinho" Cholbi do Nascimento, who briefly played for his father's…

Former Jatiya Party MP Dr Abdul Kader Khan, who was arrested for his suspected involvement in the killing of Gaibandha-1 MP Manjurul Islam Liton, gave a confessional statement before a court yesterday evening, reports UNB. Gaibandha Judicial Magistrate M Joynul Abedin recorded the statement under section…