A former Afghan television presenter and two other civilians were killed in a Kabul bombing yesterday, in an attack officials blamed on a group linked to the Taliban.

About 150 people have died or remain unaccounted for in Guatemala due to mudslides caused by powerful storm Eta, which devastated an indigenous village in the country’s north, President Alejandro Giammattei said Friday.

A special session of the Jatiya Sangsad will begin at 6:00pm today on the occasion of Mujib Barsha, the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Rich nations will need to boost efforts to provide funding for pandemic-hit poorer countries to battle climate change if they are to meet a promise of raising $100 billion a year from 2020, climate finance officials and analysts said on Friday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said there would be no poverty in Bangladesh if multidimensional rural cooperatives can be established.

Armenia yesterday reported that “fierce combat” with Azerbaijani forces took place overnight near the town of Shusha, a key stronghold in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

The US economy created the fewest jobs in five months in October and more Americans are working part time, underscoring the challenges the next president faces to keep the recovery from the pandemic on track as fiscal stimulus dries up and new COVID-19 cases explode across the country.

The United States reported record new coronavirus cases for the third day in a row, as Joe Biden vowed to act against the pandemic on “day one” if he wins the presidential election in the world’s worst-hit nation.

Thirteen people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Police yesterday arrested three people on charges of gang raping a woman in Narayanganj Sadar upazila.

The Detective Branch of police claimed to have arrested four members of militant outfit “Neo JMB” in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila early yesterday.

Potential US President Joe Biden’s foreign policy will emphasise on strengthening democracy and human rights globally -- a shift from that of incumbent President Donald Trump who focused on trade, said international relations analysts at Washington, DC.

The 36th span of the Padma bridge was installed yesterday, making a 5.4km stretch of the main structure visible.

A schoolgirl, who was allegedly gang-raped about a month ago, was raped again in Lalmonirhat on Wednesday.

Coronavirus cases hit new records in the United States as swathes of Italy returned to lockdown yesterday with the resurgent pandemic continuing its march through Europe.

A teenage girl has been arrested in the capital’s Mirpur for “hurting religious sentiments” through social media.

The health ministry ordered suspension of student admission at Shah Makhdum Medical College in Rajshahi because of the “poor state of education”.

Birangana Parul Rani died of old-age comp-lications at her house in Barguna’s Patharghata upazila town on Thursday night. She was 90.

Four members of a family, including a child, were killed and three others injured when a truck hit two other vehicles at Syedabad in Kasba upazila yesterday.

In a shift from the usual weather pattern, the country has witnessed around 50 percent more rainfall in the first nine months of this year, compared to the average rainfall in the corresponding period during the last 30 years.