Britain’s exit from the European Union hung on a knife-edge yesterday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson scrambled to persuade doubters to rally behind his last-minute European Union divorce deal in an extraordinary vote in parliament.

A woman found a one-month-old baby girl abandoned beside her home in Panchagarh town on Thursday night. Doctors said the baby is healthy.

New Zealand police yesterday announced the introduction of armed patrols in response to the Christchurch mosques massacre in which 51 Muslim worshippers were killed.

The rising defaults on loans poses the biggest risk for the Bangladesh economy that stands to grow at a remarkable pace, said the International Monetary Fund yesterday, raising the urgency level for the government to address the banking sector’s ills.

Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar said they had unblocked popular online game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) hours after a top police official said it was blocked.

US President Donald Trump has awarded hosting of the next G7 summit to one of his own Florida golf clubs, the White House said on Thursday, sparking accusations of corruption from opposition lawmakers and ethics campaigners.

Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama will not face charges over an alleged assault due to double jeopardy rules, the public prosecutor said yesterday, despite finding there would be enough evidence to take the case to court.

France’s top diplomat yesterday held talks in Baghdad about transferring foreign jihadists from northern Syria, where a Turkish offensive has triggered fears of mass jailbreaks, to be tried in Iraq.

A quick-thinking Utah police officer pulled an unconscious driver out of the path of a train seconds before it smashed into the man’s vehicle.

Malaysia held talks with Goldman Sachs about dropping charges against three units of the Wall Street bank that prosecutors brought over the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal, a report said yesterday.

Right-wing terrorists pose a growing threat in Australia, the country’s spy agency has warned, describing the extremist networks as “more cohesive and organised” than ever.

A Russian protester who faces up to five years in prison for throwing a plastic bottle at police said yesterday he fled the country amid an unrelenting crackdown on the opposition.

An MP for Britain’s opposition Labour Party has resigned, accusing leader Jeremy Corbyn of allowing anti-Semitism to flourish in the party.

Turkey agreed yesterday to pause its offensive in Syria for five days to let Kurdish forces withdraw from a “safe zone” Ankara had sought to capture, in a deal hailed by Washington but which Turkish leaders cast as a complete victory.

More than 15,000 children under five die each day in the developing world, with huge disparities in death rates between and within countries, according to a detailed assessment of childhood mortality released Wednesday.

Two suspected drug peddlers were killed in a “gunfight” with police at Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday, hours after their arrest. The dead are Ziabul Haque alias Babul, 30, and Azim Ullah, 46, inhabitants of Teknaf, said police.

The government yesterday removed ward councillor AKM Mominul Haque Sayeed of Dhaka South City Corporation for being “absent in meetings and staying abroad without permission”.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed two accused in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case on fresh remand.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed a case against an industrialist and a former manager of Mercantile Bank Ltd in Chattogram on charges of fraudulence, misuse of power and money laundering.

A university professor has managed to hold multiple important administrative posts simultaneously at universities situated in different districts for over one and a half years now.