Catastrophic bushfires in eastern Australia have killed at least three people and forced thousands from their homes, with the death toll expected to rise as firefighters struggle towards hard-to-reach communities.

Cambodia’s exiled opposition figurehead Sam Rainsy arrived in Malaysia Saturday as he sought to get home to rally his supporters against strongman Hun Sen, while security was ramped up at the kingdom’s borders and in Phnom Penh.

An Indonesian palm oil executive has been arrested for allegedly ordering the killing two activist journalists who were mediating a land dispute between his company and local residents, police said Saturday.

President Donald Trump on Friday sought to crack Democrats’ solid hold on black voters, telling a gathering of African-Americans in Atlanta that the left has taken them for granted.

Hong Kong protesters yesterday held a vigil for “martyrs” and many demanded “revenge” after a student died in hospital this week following a high fall, fuelling anger among pro-democracy demonstrators who first took to the streets in June.

A student of Jahangirnagar University was sued yesterday for allegedly disparaging the government, the prime minister and the vice-chancellor on social media.

The Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists yesterday launched the last phase of a troop pullback ahead of a high-stakes summit with Russia.

No cyclone or safe shelter can be found in eight coastal islands under Patuakhali’s Rangabali upazila, leaving some 15,000 people vulnerable to the natural calamity.

Classes of a government primary school in Tangail were being conducted in the yard of a private home, since the schoolhouse was destroyed by river erosion two years ago.

Seven suspected rebels have been arrested in Thailand’s violence-wracked south, authorities said Saturday, as a manhunt sweeps through remote villages for gunmen who killed 15 in an ambush considered the deadliest attack in the yearslong insurgency.

At least 151 fishermen have been missing in the Bay of Bengal in Bhola, Patuakhali and Barguna districts.

Indian author and politician Shashi Tharoor yesterday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had forgotten his own “prescription”, which he had announced months before the turmoil in Kashmir.

A newly married couple, along with five others, were killed as a battery-run three-wheeler collided head-on with a bus on Panchagarh-Banglabandha highway in Panchagarh’s Sadar upazila yesterday.

A Feni court yesterday sent a youth to jail on charge of raping a teenage girl in Dagonbhuiyan upazila on Thursday.

The long-awaited panel discussion on “Sheikh Mujib: Icon of Postcolonial Liberation”, which featured Indian writer, diplomat and politician Shashi Tharoor, was held on the second day of the three-day long Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF) yesterday.

There is no need to allow voluntary donors beyond certain relatives to donate kidneys as it may give rise to several problems, including organ trafficking, said a report submitted by an expert committee to the High Court.

The apex court in 2009 directed the government to demarcate the original territory of the four Dhaka rivers -- Buriganga, Turag, Balu Shitalakhya -- restore those rivers to their original state and protect them against grabbing and from pollution.

Indian police have arrested more than 500 people ahead of a Supreme Court ruling on a hotly disputed religious site in the holy city of Ayodhya, media reports said, with authorities fearing the verdict could trigger unrest.

Indian Border Security Force men shot dead a Bangladeshi cattle trader on Moheshpur border in Jhenidah early yesterday.

President Donald Trump could postpone tariffs on Chinese goods scheduled to take effect in December, White House trade adviser said yesterday.