A Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives committee approved charges of abuse of power and obstruction against Republican President Donald Trump yesterday, making it almost certain he will become the third US president in history to be impeached.

A former premier and ex-ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched a new party yesterday, saying it would stand against “cult of the leader” politics.

The United States tested a medium-range ballistic missile on Thursday, the second test in four months of an offensive missile that would have been banned by a US-Russia arms treaty that Washington exited in August.

Ten civilians, including four women and a child, were killed when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday.

French commuters gritted their teeth on the ninth day of a crippling public transport strike yesterday, pinning their hopes for an end to the daily misery on the government’s offer of fresh negotiations with unions over a contested pensions overhaul.

Three youths including a player of Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishthan (BKSP) died of toxic spirit consumption in Kushtia town early yesterday.

They are the members of the “father-son syndicate” of yaba trade.

Some 19 Bangladeshi youths have returned home through Benapole check post after serving two years of jail in India.

With the heaviest of hearts, Nazrul Islam, a rickshaw puller from Kurigram’s Nageshwari upazila, was narrating how the Keraniganj factory fire had shattered all his dreams in the blink of an eye.

The Al-Badr force starts killing Bangalee intellectuals, who were abducted for the past few days, at Mirpur and Mohammadpur killing ground. Pakistani General Rao Farman Ali conducts this loathsome decadence from behind the scenes.

An Australian research team say they have come up with a “lifespan clock” which provides accurate maximum age estimates for vertebrates, a key variable in the study of both living and extinct animals.

If you want to buy skin-whitening cream online, especially those advertised to have been imported, think twice.

At least 100 jute mill workers, observing an indefinite hunger strike for four days, were admitted to different hospitals and clinics in Khulna yesterday.

A mob yesterday vandalised the office of The Daily Sangram in the capital’s Boro Moghbazar over running a report which termed executed war criminal Abdul Quader Molla a “martyr”.

The United Nations General Assembly, like every year, has unanimously adopted Bangladesh’s resolution on the “Culture of Peace”.

Singapore has defended a controversial new law against misinformation that it has wielded against Facebook, after an opposition party launched a withering attack on the legislation.

Russia’s only aircraft carrier caught fire yesterday while undergoing maintenance in an Arctic shipyard, news agencies reported, raising concerns for the future of the navy flagship.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Sarhail village of Mymensingh’s Ishwarganj upazila early yesterday.

A Texas man who killed a prison officer was executed late Wednesday, bringing to 22 the number of people put to death in the US this year.

Spain’s King Felipe VI on Wednesday tasked acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez with forming a new government even though he lacks support from other parties to form a workable majority in parliament.