Chef Benoit Violier, whose Swiss restaurant is named the best in the world in December, has been found dead at his home.

A Chhatra League activist was stabbed to death in an internal clash over previous enmity in the district's Ukhia upazila early yesterday.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) allegedly tortured a Bangladeshi cattle trader to death along Shaljhore border in the district's Bhurungamari upazila early yesterday.

Enraged madrasa students went berserk in Brahmanbaria town yesterday over the death of a fellow student.

Three children were burnt to death in Kabirpur village of Shailkupa upazila last night as one of their family members allegedly set fire to their house over family feud.

Unidentified assailants hacked to death a journalist of a local daily, tying him to a tree in an isolated place in Rangpur city on Wednesday night.

A professor of Rajshahi University is killed when a pickup van of Sundarban Courier Service rammed his motorbike in Natore town.

Comedian Robin Williams had health problems that would have killed him within three years if he had not ended his own life, his widow has said.

A rickshaw puller was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants in the capital’s Adabor area early today.

The world's oldest bible is among 200 objects tracing Egypt's religious evolution in an exhibition at London's British Museum that spans the 1,200 years since Cleopatra's death.

Muggers allegedly shot a restaurant worker to death in Dhaka’s Motijheel area.

Around the world, 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men are at risk of an osteoporosis fracture, says the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF).

The Bangladesh mission in Saudi Arabia has confirmed death of 41 nationals in the Mina Hajj stampede last month.

The novelist Jackie Collins has died of breast cancer at the age of 77, her family said in a statement.

An Italian-Chinese medical team plans to perform the world's first head transplant in China, amid concerns over medical ethics in the country.

Police file case and arrest two people in connection to the landslide that killed three children in Chittagong city.

Death toll from crash of an Indonesian air force plane packed with military personnel and their families rises to 142, as witnesses described people fleeing the disaster zone covered in blood with their clothes alight.

Two people have been killed in a wall collapse at East Madarbari in Chittagong city.

The execution of a Pakistani man convicted of manslaughter has been postponed hours before he was due to be hanged, prison officials say.

Unknown assailants stab to death a housewife at the residence of her husband’s first wife in Panchlaish area of Chittagong city.