In the latest unrest, an Israeli soldier is killed in a shooting at a bus station in the southern city of Beersheba, the first such attack after a day in which violence seemed to somewhat ebb.

Authorities have shut Ziaur Rahman Medical College in Bogra for an indefinite period after an infighting of the college’s BCL.

Ultimately it was the killing of an Italian national in Dhaka by unknown perpetrators that is believed, within the BCB, to have led to Australia calling off their tour of Bangladesh.

An army ranger straps a GoPro to his waist and records footage which proved his claims of domestic violence, reports Fox News.

Two Canadians, a Norwegian and a local woman have been kidnapped from a tourist resort in the southern Philippines, the military has said.

At least 10 people have been killed and more than 40 injured in an explosion at a bus terminal in the Pakistani city of Multan, officials say.

Vidya Balan feels that the reason women are wary of revealing their age is because of the pressure to look young in a "youth obsessed society".

A Comilla court sends BNP standing committee member MK Anwar to jail in a case filed for petrol bomb attack on a bus in the district earlier this year.

The UN body on children condemns violence against children and lauds media efforts in bringing such incidents to light.

A female worker is gang-raped allegedly by one of her colleagues and his two cohorts in Uttara area of Dhaka.

A car bomb kills 120 people and injures at least 130 at a busy market in an Iraqi town, officials have said.

Actress-filmmaker Angelina Jolie, addressing the African Union summit, has called for more global support to end violence against women around the world.

The apex court stays a High Court directive that halted the government’s suspension order of Rajshahi city Mayor Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul.

Police cannot say about the motive of the attack; probe body formed to investigate.

American actor Matt Dillon put a rare star-powered spotlight on Myanmar's long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims, visiting a camp for tens of thousands displaced by violence.

The country had become a “soft” state revealing itself to be completely incapable of fighting the forces of violence and terror. True, the patronage of criminals by politicians in the past and a demoralised police force pushed up the crime graph in the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expresses her hope that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will suggest BNP to return to the democratic politics shunning the path of terrorist and militant activities.

The Election Working Group (EWG), a non-partisan network of 28 leading civil society organisations in Bangladesh, says the city corporation elections are not credible due to malpractices and irregularities.

Japan expresses concern over the recent violence during campaigning for the upcoming Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation elections.

The Islamic State jihadist group has released a video purportedly showing the executions of some 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.