Hong Kong police and protesters clashed yesterday as tens of thousands marched through the central city wearing face masks in defiance of colonial-era emergency powers which threaten them with a year in prison for hiding their faces.

Four members of a family died yesterday after being hit by lightning in Chandpur’s Boro Station area.

Bolivia´s “Death Road” might seem an odd place for a septuagenarian grandmother on two wheels. The world´s most dangerous road spirals skyward nearly 11,000 feet, from the country´s lowland jungles to the snow-capped peaks of the Andes.

Coast guard members arrested a man in possession of 20 maunds (about 740kg) of venison from a trawler in Barguna’s Patharghata upazila early yesterday.

Hindu devotees observed “Kumari Puja” on the Maha Ashtami of the Durga Puja across the country yesterday. The main attraction of the day was Kumari Puja where a pre-pubescent girl is worshiped as “Mother Goddess”.

Four of the eight fugitives in the Rifat murder case surrendered to a Barguna court yesterday. The court rejected their bail prayers and sent one of them to a Barguna jail and the other three to a juvenile correction centre in Jashore.

Fearing arrests and harassment, residents of Geneva Camp in the capital’s Mohammadpur area were panicking yesterday, a day after clashes with police.

At a time when children of Harijan, a community that largely serves our society as sweepers and cleaners, are stymied by gross discrimination, a group of youths has stepped forward to provide them with basic education.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday received ‘Tagore Peace Award 2018’ in New Delhi in recognition of her contribution to maintaining regional peace and prosperity.

Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has earned a spot among the most influential politicians of London on The Progress 1000 list of the Evening Standard.

With her two children, Momtaz Begum were headed for Magura from Dhaka on Friday. By nightfall she reached Paturia Ghat, but she had to spend the night inside the bus because ferry services were heavily disrupted on Paturia-Daulatdia route thanks to strong currents in the Padma River.

At least 16 people, including 11 soldiers, have been killed in jihadist attacks in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, military and militia sources said yesterday.

Unidentified gunmen killed eight people and injured 18 during an overnight attack in northern Rwanda near the border with DR Congo, police said yesterday.

Turkey will mount a military operation in northeast Syria, it said yesterday, after accusing Washington of not doing enough to expel Syrian Kurdish fighters from its border.

The US will block the entry of immigrants without health insurance or the ability to pay for medical bills, President Donald Trump revealed Friday.

Classic Beatles album “Abbey Road” is back at number one in Britain half a century after its first release, with the band breaking their own record for the longest gap between stints at the top of the charts.

Nine jihadists were killed yesterday in Russian airstrikes on Syria’s war-torn province of Idlib, a monitoring group said.

Ten people were killed and seven injured on Saturday when a lorry collided with a minibus in eastern Romania, the country with the highest level of road deaths in the EU, police said.

He was supposed to be touting his tough stance on crime but Canadian opposition leader Andrew Scheer found himself on the back foot Friday as his announcement was overshadowed by questions over his dual nationality.

Hong Kong’s metro system stayed shut yesterday, paralysing transport in the Asian financial hub, and malls and shops closed early after a night of chaos in which police shot a teenage boy and protesters torched businesses and metro stations.