The deputy governor of the Afghan capital of Kabul was killed on Tuesday in a bomb attack on his car as he went to work, security officials said.

A record number of journalists were imprisoned during 2020, as governments cracked down on coverage of the coronavirus pandemic or tried to suppress reporting of civil unrest, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday congratulated Joe Biden on winning the US presidential election after weeks of holding out.

Economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has set back decades of progress against the most severe forms of malnutrition, and is likely to kill 168,000 children before any global recovery takes hold, according to a study released Monday by 30 international organisations.

Migrants earn nearly 13 percent less on average than native workers in high-income countries, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report.

Bangladesh and Canada have launched a “Year of Action” on nutrition, which will include a series of commitment-making moments.

Singapore will open a new segregated travel lane for a limited number of business, official and high economic value travellers from all countries, the government said on Tuesday, as part of efforts to revive its key travel and hospitality sectors.

Over 1,000 cases of a new coronavirus variant have been identified in the past few days in England, predominantly in the south of the country where it could be connected to a surge in cases, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.

An explosion struck a tanker off the Saudi port city of Jeddah, maritime sources said yesterday, without elaborating on the cause.

A US-based Bangladeshi organisation along with other South Asian minorities held a protest outside the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, demanding an apology for the 1971 ‘genocide’ named Operation Searchlight.

The European Union’s rights watchdog has warned of the risks of using artificial intelligence in predictive policing, medical diagnoses and targeted advertising as the bloc mulls rules next year to address the challenges posed by the technology.

German biotech firm CureVac has enrolled the first participant for a Phase 2b/3 clinical trial of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, it said yesterday.

A massive outage knocked Google services including Gmail and video sharing platform YouTube offline across much of the globe yesterday.

John le Carre, the British writer best known for his Cold War espionage novels “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and “The Spy Who Came In From The Cold”, has died aged 89, his agent and family said Sunday.

A US-funded project using satellites to track and publish water levels at Chinese dams on the Mekong river was announced yesterday, adding to the superpowers’ rivalry in Southeast Asia.

European Union Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said yesterday that sealing a trade pact with Britain was still possible before the country’s final break with the 27-nation bloc on Decembr 31 but the next few days of negotiations would be critical.

From now on, airlines carrying passengers without Covid-19 negative certificates will have to face flight suspension of different terms, according to the directives of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB).

An intensive care unit nurse has become the first person in New York state to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, marking a pivotal turn in the US effort to control the deadly virus.

The Assam government has approved a proposal to close down all government-run madrasas and Sanskrit “tol” (schools).

Google and several of its services, including Gmail and YouTube, among others, have been restored after those were down for thousands of users worldwide.