Child abuse: Barisal orphanage staff suspended
The administration has suspended a staff of a government orphanage in Barisal for beating two children at the institution.
Barisal Deputy Commissioner Dr Gazi Md Saifuzzaman said the orphanage's Compounder Md Dulal was suspended as per verbal order of the director general of social welfare directorate.
Sonali Bank night guards killed in Satkhira
Two night guards of Sonali Bank's Kolaroa Branch have been slaughtered by miscreants in Satkhira.
The deceased are Jahangir Hossain, 31, and Asaduzzaman, 35.
Lightning kills 4 in Habiganj
Four people have been killed in a lightning havoc at Birat haor in Ajmiriganj upazila of Habiganj.
The deceased are Musa Mia, 50, Kriti Sutradhar, 30, Oshenjit Sutradhar, 45, and Prosen Sutradhar.
Indian Maoist rebels kill four abducted policemen
India's Maoist rebels have killed four policemen they abducted from a bus in Chhattisgarh's insurgent Bijapur district.
The bodies of four police personnel were recovered on Wednesday morning, Times of India reports.
Toshiba CEO to step down
Toshiba Corp Chief Executive Hisao Tanaka will step down in September along with other board members including Vice Chairman Norio Sasaki to take responsibility for accounting irregularities, sources familiar with the matter said.
The Japanese conglomerate has hired a third-party committee to investigate past book-keeping practices, and sources have said the probe was focusing on the role top officials played in the irregularities.
Venezuelan opposition figure barred from public office
A leading opposition figure in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado, says she has been barred from public office for a year.
Ms Machado, who is a former congresswoman, said she was given 15 days to appeal against the decision.
Iran deal sets 2016 clash between Hillary and GOP hopefuls
Hillary Rodham Clinton embraced a landmark nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday, calling it the most effective path for the US to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. But she warned it would need strict enforcement, underscoring the tension between President Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy and the White House aspirations of his first secretary of state.
In a lengthy statement released late Tuesday, Clinton said she supported "the agreement because it can help us prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon."
IMF calls for Greece debt relief ahead of bailout vote
An International Monetary Fund study published on Tuesday showed that Greece needs far more debt relief than European governments have been willing to contemplate so far, as fractious parties in Athens prepared to vote on a sweeping austerity package demanded by their lenders.
The IMF's stark warning on Greece's debt came as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras struggled to persuade deeply unhappy leftist lawmakers to vote for a package of austerity measures and liberal economic reforms to secure a new bailout.
Obama calls for criminal justice reforms
US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he wanted to work with a bipartisan group of lawmakers on new prison sentencing reform legislation by the end of the year to reduce sentences for low-level drug dealers and parole violations.
"Mass incarceration makes our country worse off, and we need to do something about it," Obama told about 3,000 people attending a convention of the NAACP, the nation's oldest civil rights group.
