SC stays Khaleda’s bail until Sunday

The Appellate Division on Wednesday stayed till Sunday the bail granted to Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case

PM returns home from Singapore

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Tuesday, cutting short her official visit to Singapore by a day, following Monday’s US-Bangla Airlines plane crash in Nepal.

Eight DB men closed over torturing journalist

Eight members of the Detective Branch of police have been closed to the district police lines over torturing a cameraperson of a private television channel in the city. Deputy Commissioner (South) of Barisal Metropolitan Police Golam Rauf said they also formed a probe committee to look into the incident

Fire at Shyambazar onion wholesale market

Fifteen shops were burnt in a fire that broke out at an onion wholesale market at Shyambazar in Sutrapur area of the capital on early Wednesday.

Stephen Hawking, renowned scientist, dies at 76

(CNN)Stephen Hawking, the brilliant British theoretical physicist who overcame a debilitating disease to publish wildly popular books probing the mysteries of the universe, has died, according to a family spokesman. He was 76.

New boss at State Department, but same Russia problem for Trump

Washington (CNN)Outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made a point to specifically call out Russia in his farewell statement on Tuesday -- highlighting an urgent challenge that is now the responsibility of his replacement Mike Pompeo along with Defense Secretary James Mattis.

Tillerson ouster shows Trump is unleashed

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is the latest move in an audacious power play designed to build a governing team in his own image and to purge restraints that have tempered his brazen, impulsive instincts

Pennsylvania election results: Highlights

Here's what you need to know CNN is concluding our live coverage of the special election in Pennsylvania.

Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov found dead in his London home

London (CNN)Nikolai Glushkov, a Russian exile who had links to compatriots who died in mysterious circumstances in the UK, has been found dead in his London home, his lawyer confirmed.

39 to die for killing Ekramul in Feni

A Feni court on Tuesday sentenced 39 people to death for killing Phulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque in Feni in 2014.