Ice skaters on the two rinks in New York’s Central Park have long glided, or stumbled, past large red signs spelling “Trump.” Not this season, officials confirmed Wednesday.

A Moscow court yesterday ruled to keep US citizen Paul Whelan, who was arrested at the end of last year on espionage charges, in custody for another two months.

Tunisian Anis Amri, who drove a truck into a crowded Berlin Christmas market, took a selfie in front of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s apartment in the weeks before the attack, sources close to the investigation confirmed yesterday.

Expressing satisfaction over the verdict in Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case, different rights bodies, political parties, and socio-cultural organisations yesterday urged the authorities concerned to quickly execute the verdict.

British police said yesterday that 39 people found dead in a truck near London were all believed to be Chinese nationals, in a case that has triggered national outrage over the people trafficking business.

Even a day after the brutal killing of Rangamati BNP leader Dipamoy Talukder after his abduction, neither the family nor police filed a murder case.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalists faced mixed fortunes in two Indian state elections, with his party on course to see reduced majorities as a grinding economic slowdown weighed on voters.

Ducsu member Tanbir Hasan Shaikat yesterday said he, along with first-year students living in gono rooms in dormitories, would start residing in the vice-chancellor’s home from October 29.

The government move for out-of-court settlement of a dispute between the telecom regulator and two large mobile carriers over “dues” suffered at least a week’s delay yesterday.

Police arrested a young man on charge of raping a fourth grader of a madrasa in Laxmipur, while a court sent a man to jail allegedly for raping a seventh grader in Patuakhali yesterday.

An Italian couple survived a landslide that caused their house to collapse after being woken by their cats, giving them time to escape, media reported yesterday.

The prime suspect in the Saudi-returnee child specialist murder case and an alleged robber were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

Hundreds of farmers rolled out tractors to stage protests at government offices across France on Tuesday, railing against measures they say are crimping revenues and contributing to a spike in suicides in the sector in recent years.

Shirin Akter Shela has become the first Miss Universe Bangladesh 2019.

Mechanical and design problems with a Boeing 737 MAX flight control system were key factors in the crash of a Lion Air jet last year, Indonesian investigators told victims’ families in a briefing on their findings yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Buet student Mizanur Rahman on a five-day remand in Abrar Fahad murder case.

Pope Francis yesterday launched an appeal for dialogue and an end to violent protests in Chile over economic inequality which have swept the country and claimed 15 lives.

The body of a mauja headman was found dead in Rajasthali upazila of Bandarban yesterday morning, about 16 hours after his abduction.

Police arrested a young man on charge of raping a fourth grader of a madrasa in Laxmipur, while a court sent a man to jail allegedly for raping a seventh grader in Patuakhali yesterday.

Expressing concern over the recent communal violence in Bhola, 11 eminent personalities yesterday said the incident seemed to have been planned.