President Donald Trump said from his hospital room that the next few days will be the "real test" of his treatment for Covid-19, after a series of contradictory messages from the White House caused widespread confusion about his condition.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today wished for the early recovery of US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump from the Covid-19.

Voters took to the polls in large numbers in the South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia on Sunday for a referendum on whether to break away from France after nearly 170 years.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen left Dhaka this morning for Kuwait with a message from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the Arab state’s new Emir, Sheikh Nawaf al Ahmad al Sabah.

Two people died and nine people were missing in France and Italy after a storm hit border regions of the two countries, bringing record rainfall in places and causing heavy flooding that swept away roads and damaged homes, authorities said on Saturday.

US President Donald Trump posted a video Saturday from the hospital where he is battling Covid-19, saying he was improving and would be "back soon" -- but acknowledged that the crucial coming days would be "the real test."

Saudi Arabia’s Chamber of Commerce head Ajlan Al Ajlan has called for a boycott of “everything Turkish”, including imports, investment, and tourism, reports Gulf News.

Egypt has put on show dozens of coffins belonging to priests and clerks from the 26th dynasty nearly 2,500 years ago, with archaeologists saying tens more were found in the vast Saqqara necropolis just days ago.

California fire crews deploying water-dropping helicopters made a defensive stand on Friday against flames raging in the foothills of the Napa Valley

A Russian journalist died on Friday after setting herself on fire in front of the local branch of the interior ministry in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, a day

At least 15 people were killed and more than 30 others wounded in a car bomb attack that targeted a government building in eastern Afghanistan

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday opened a Himalayan tunnel that will drastically reduce the time needed to rush troops to the country’s remote Chinese border as tensions grow between the Asian neighbours.

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra yesterday met the family of the 20-year-old Dalit woman whose gang rape and murder last month in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras has sparked outrage across India and triggered days of protests.

Armenian and Azerbaijani forces were engaged in fierce clashes yesterday as fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region intensified after its main city came under heavy shelling.

As Americans digested the news on Friday that President Donald Trump had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, some of his backers expressed surprise that he hadn’t been safe from infection and said their support for him was not diminished.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said on Friday that President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis shows the importance of taking the pandemic seriously, telling Americans that wearing masks is more important than being a “tough guy.”

White House doctor Sean Conley said today that President Donald Trump is “doing well” and has been “fever free” for the last 24 hours, after it was announced he tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday.

Sudan’s transitional authorities and a rebel alliance signed on Saturday a peace deal initialed in August that aims to put an end to the country's decades-long civil wars, in a televised ceremony marking the agreement.

India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rises past 100,000, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating.

Repatriation of Rohingya refugees and the threat posed by Pakistan-based terror groups that are allegedly trying to infiltrate Rohingya in camps in Bangladesh are likely to be among the issues Indian Army Chief Gen MM Naravane and the country’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla will discuss during their one-day visit to Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital.