The World Health Organization yesterday cautioned that some 200 monkeypox cases found in recent weeks outside of countries where the virus usually circulates could be just the beginning.

Sri Lanka kept their record of winning every Test series in Bangladesh intact with a comprehensive 10-wicket victory over the Tigers in the second Test of the two-match series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the Asian countries must combine their forces to help address their common challenges for the betterment of future generations.

The National Assembly of Pakistan (NA) has passed the Elections (Amendment) Bill 2022, which seeks to remove the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) in general elections as well as disallows overseas Pakistanis from voting.

A woman was burned to death allegedly by her husband at Pangashia union in Patuakhali’s Dumki upazila yesterday.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said the government is constructing roads in border areas to stop criminal activities there.

A lush green forest in southern Chile might be home to the world’s oldest tree after a new study found that an ancient alerce tree known as “great grandfather” could be more than 5,000 years old.

European police agency Europol yesterday warned of a “current and future threat” from 3D-printed weapons, an increasing number of which have been seized across the continent.

At least seven Indian soldiers were killed and 19 others injured in a road accident in the remote Ladakh region, close to the country’s disputed border with China, police said yesterday.

The Taliban yesterday rejected the UN Security Council’s call to reverse heavy restrictions imposed on Afghan women, dismissing their concerns as “unfounded”.

Prominent journalist, writer and columnist Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury will be buried at Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals’ Graveyard in the capital today.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday accused Western countries of waging a “total war” on Russia and its people and culture as Moscow pushes on with its military operation in Ukraine.

Rapid Action Battalion arrested 26 alleged criminals over mugging and extorting money after raiding different areas in the capital on Thursday.

Two students died after their motorcycle crashed into a lamp-post near Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital on Thursday night.

A Moulvibazar court yesterday sent two people to jail on charges of gang-raping a 10th-grader in Kulaura upazila.

The government will give launderers a special scope to bring back the money they had taken out of the country.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed yesterday that Vladimir Putin will neither win the Ukraine war nor dictate the terms for peace, as Russian troops made fresh attempts to take a key eastern city.

Three tourists were killed and six others injured as a microbus carrying them crashed into a roadside ditch in Bandarban’s Thanchi upazila yesterday morning.

Bangladesh once again dug themselves into a hole just when it seemed that the second and series-deciding Test match against Sri Lanka may end in a draw as their fragile top-order made even saving the Test match on the fifth and final day an extremely difficult task.

Two lawmakers from Britain’s governing Conservative Party yesterday pulled their support for Prime Minister Boris Johnson over a damning report that detailed a series of alcohol-fuelled lockdown-breaking parties at his 10 Downing Street office.