Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has ordered general elections on October 23, as tensions rise with his estranged predecessor, Ian Khama, the man who put him in the top job.

President Donald Trump on Friday released a photograph of an apparently failed Iranian rocket launch and said that the United States had nothing to do with it.

Demonstrations are expected across Britain on Saturday against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s move to suspend parliament in the final weeks before Brexit.

Russia’s opposition was set to hold a new protest march in central Moscow yesterday, despite a ban by authorities, a week before controversial regional polls in the capital.

BNP is all set to celebrate its 41st founding anniversary across the country today with various programmes.

A suspected criminal was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Narsingdi’s Madhabdi area on Friday night, few hours after he was arrested.

Three boys, who were found dead under unclear circumstances on Friday, died after inhaling poisonous gas in Matlab Dakkhin upazila, according to autopsy reports.

An elderly man was killed and nine others were injured in a factional clash between two rival groups of the ruling Awami League over putting up a fence in Joypurhat’s Kalai upazila on Friday night.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the Chhatra League men to build themselves with the mentality to sacrifice for better serving the people.

Chaos engulfed Hong Kong’s financial heart yesterday night as police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters who set large fires and threw petrol bombs, defying a ban on rallying -- and mounting threats from China -- to take to the streets for a 13th straight weekend.

Sobita, a nurse at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital is now handling more than 10 times the patients she used to at her previous job at the National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital.

Holy Ashura, commemoration of the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA), will be observed in the country on September 10 as the Muharram moon was sighted in Bangladesh sky yesterday.

More than 4 million people, most of them Muslims, await their fate in Assam as India geared up for the release of a controversial citizens’ list today, which could leave them stateless.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion yesterday held a Rohingya man with 10,000 yaba pills in Kutupalong Refugee Camp of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

A dramatic late-night call from an Australian judge to a plane bound for Sri Lanka has temporarily spared a family of four -- including two Aussie-born toddlers -- from deportation and fuelled a political firestorm Down Under.

Although there is a rift within the main opposition Jatiya Party over its leadership, senior party leaders shared the stage of a prayer meeting in Bandar upazila yesterday.

Berlin yesterday eased rules allowing the descendants of people who fled Nazi Germany to reclaim citizenship.

The French government yesterday kicked off a month-long Brexit dress rehearsal for trucks carrying goods across the Channel to Britain through the port of Calais.

Six UN Security Council members on Wednesday blocked a move to include Somali jihadist group Al-Shabaab on a list of organizations such as Al-Qaeda that are under international sanctions, diplomatic sources said.

Donald Trump’s personal assistant Madeleine Westerhout resigned on Thursday after she shared information about the president’s family with journalists, US media reported.