The High Court yesterday directed the government to allow Barrister Mainul Hosein, an adviser to a former caretaker government, to go to Bangkok for checkup.

The decades-old defence treaty between the United States and the Philippines needs to be revamped, or risks dragging Manila into a war with China, the Filipino defence chief said yesterday.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday outlined his vision for Europe's future, urging reform of its passport-free Schengen area and setting up a new agency "for the protection of democracies" against cyber-attacks and fake news.

Junta leader Prayut Chan-O-Cha dropped his latest saccharine pop ballad on the Thai public yesterday, pining for the "democratic path" nearly five years after he seized power from the country's last elected government.

Four American tourists and a Kenyan pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed on an island in a lake in northwest Kenya, police said yesterday.

Estonia was on track yesterday for its first female prime minister after the opposition liberal Reform party won a general election, outpacing the governing centre-left and a surging far-right party buoyed by a backlash from mostly rural voters in the Baltic eurozone state.

India's Kumbh Mela religious megafestival wrapped up yesterday with some 10 million pilgrims expected to take a final holy plunge, taking the final tally towards 250 million, officials said.

Myanmar authorities seized more than 10 million meth pills worth $13.3 million over the weekend, police said yesterday, another massive haul in a country widely believed to be the world's largest methamphetamine producer.

Britain yesterday launched a global "period poverty" fund and taskforce to help all women and girls access sanitary products by 2050 and to tackle the stigma around menstruation.

An alleged drug peddler was killed in what police said was a gunfight between two gangs of drug traders at Kazipur village in Gangni upazila of Meherpur early yesterday.

Family members of Akash, who has allegedly been missing since early Saturday, yesterday said they were still clueless about the whereabouts of him.

Breaking a two-day lull in cross-border skirmishes, Pakistan troops yesterday violated ceasefire again by targeting forward posts and villages along the Line of Control (Loc) in Akhnoor sector in Jammu, officials said.

Noted photographer Shahidul Alam has filed a writ petition with the High Court, challenging the legality of the case in which he suffered in jail for 107 days.

An Awami League leader was killed and 22 others were injured in factional clashes over the upcoming upazila election in three districts from Sunday night till yesterday.

At least 16 people, including two police men, were injured in a clash after locals blocked a road in Ukhia yesterday morning demanding quick repatriation of the Rohingyas and fences around the refugee camps.

The US is giving $45.5 million more aid for the Rohingyas who fled to Bangladesh after facing a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine in August 2017.

Campaign for the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) and hall union polls officially began yesterday as the university authorities published the final list of candidates.

The money spent on an expensive project like metro rail must be justified by ensuring it provides quality and optimum service to the public, said the country director of Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Farmers in the northeastern backswamps are on the brink of facing another flash flood as the construction and maintenance works of “around 50 percent” Haor protection embankments have not been completed within the given timeline.

Opponents and supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the streets Saturday evening after the country's attorney general said he intended to file graft charges against him.