Joe Biden will announce the first of his Cabinet picks tomorrow, a senior aide said yesterday, as the president-elect moves ahead with planning for his incoming administration while President Donald Trump showed no sign of abandoning his long-shot bid to overturn the US election.

British Foreign Secretary Sir Alex Douglas Hume has offered London as “neutral ground” for a peace meeting between Bangladesh and Pakistan.

British Airways, one of the world’s leading airlines, is going to resume its operations from Dhaka after a recess of 11 years, sources at the Ministry of Civil Aviation said.

Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel, drawing Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said yesterday.

A 45.5-metre (150-foot) deep diving pool with artificial underwater caves and Mayan ruins, the world’s deepest such structure, opened near Warsaw this weekend.

Amnesty International yesterday shared a statement stating its concern about the construction of a five-star hotel in the Chittagong Hill Tracts that could lead to the forced eviction of the Mro people, an indigenous tribe, from their ancestral lands.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police has come down hard on its members who have failed the dope tests and were found to be involved in drug trading or collaborating with such traders.

Bangladesh reported 38 more Covid-19 deaths in past 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, taking the number of fatalities to 6,388.

Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh yesterday vowed to track down those responsible for a rocket attack on the capital that killed at least 10 people, even as the Islamic State group claimed to have fired the salvo.

Hundreds took to the streets in Kyrgyzstan yesterday to oppose a proposed constitution that critics say would empower the presidency and damage freedom of speech.

Police yesterday submitted an enquiry report before a court over a defamation case filed by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) against a female NGO worker in Cox’s Bazar.

Amnesty International issued a statement yesterday saying that they received allegations from Rohingya refugees about government officials in charge of camps coercing them into registering for relocation.

The death of a black man beaten by white security guards at a supermarket sparked protests across Brazil Friday as the country celebrated Black Consciousness Day.

At a sprawling refugee reception centre in Sudan, Ethiopians who fled the deadly Tigray conflict queued haphazardly outside a school-turned-relief facility to receive handouts of food, water and clothing.

Two former British prime ministers yesterday warned the country’s current leader Boris Johnson against cuts to foreign aid spending.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met negotiators from the Afghan government and the Taliban in Doha yesterday, amid signs of progress in their talks as Washington speeds up its withdrawal.

Police on Friday night arrested a 35-year-old man for setting his wife on fire leaving her critically injured in Chattogram’s Rangunia upazila.

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead by the members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Kurigram’s Roumari border area early yesterday, said police.

Joe Biden yesterday reached the two-week mark since becoming president-elect, with President Donald Trump stinging from back-to-back setbacks in his desperate, unprecedented bid to undo his election defeat.

Eighteen eminent citizens yesterday condemned the filing of a defamation case against a female employee of Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) by a member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).