A Norwegian Elvis Presley impersonator set a world record on Saturday by singing the legendary entertainer’s songs for more than 50 hours straight in an online competition.

The National Human Rights Commission yesterday wrote to the foreign ministry over Rayhan Kabir’s arrest in Malaysia, urging the ministry to provide the Bangladeshi necessary legal support in the Southeast Asian country.

Bangladesh and India formally started operating commercial container trains yesterday more than two years after the trial run of the service, aiming to boost cross-border trade and business.

Hundreds of Thai protesters sang a Japanese cartoon jingle yesterday with lyrics mocking the government as hungry hamsters feasting on taxpayer cash, part of a new protest movement by youth who say they are using whimsical tactics for serious ends.

France has opened a probe into alleged crimes against humanity by a top former Rwandan military official, Aloys Ntiwiragabo, during the country’s 1994 genocide which claimed 800,000 lives.

Iran reported 216 new deaths from the novel coronavirus yesterday, calling on its citizens to observe health protocols more closely to ease the burden on exhausted medical staff.

A Rohingya migrant is feared to be the only survivor from a boat carrying at least two dozen asylum seekers that is believed to have run into difficulty off the Malaysian coast near Thailand, a coastguard official said yesterday.

Australia has suffered its deadliest day from the coronavirus since the pandemic began, with authorities reporting ten fatalities yesterday and a rise in new infections despite an intensive lockdown effort.

Nearly 70 inmates staged a brazen escape from a detention centre in South Africa’s wine-producing town of Malmesbury on Friday after overpowering guards, before most were re-arrested, the government said.

Turkey yesterday lambasted Greek statements against the move to convert Hagia Sophia back into a mosque after the first Muslim prayers were held in the Istanbul landmark.

The United States announced Friday it will not take in any new foreign students seeking online-only study, after rescinding a hotly contested order to expel those already here and preparing for that because of the pandemic.

Governments are fast losing support for their handling of the coronavirus outbreak from a public that widely believes death and infection figures to be higher than statistics show, a survey of six countries revealed yesterday.

Five people died after showing Covid-19-like symptoms in Cumilla and Patuakhali in 27 hours till 10:15am yesterday.

A mobile court yesterday sentenced four people, including the owner of a diagnostic centre, to different terms of imprisonment for their involvement in delivering fake medical test reports in Barishal town.

Volunteers across India are being administered the indigenous vaccine candidates against the coronavirus disease developed by Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL) and Zydus Cadila.

US officials and scientists have begun laying the groundwork for a more secure “virtually unhackable” internet based on quantum computing technology.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a message to the nation on the eve of his departure for London for treatment today calls upon the people,

A former leader of Faridpur town Awami League and his brother yesterday confessed before a Dhaka court to have laundered over Tk 2,000 crore in the last few years, a court official said.

Char resident Poran Sheikh was trying to move his wife and three children in a small fishing boat to a safer shelter when disaster struck.

The United States military has said Russia appears to be sending more military equipment to its mercenaries in Libya, including in the flashpoint city of Sirte, in breach of an arms embargo.