Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached Abu Dhabi yesterday on her way to New York to attend the 74th UN General Assembly.

Former Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the first leader to be toppled by the Arab Spring revolts, died Thursday in Saudi Arabia, Tunisia’s foreign ministry told AFP. He was 83.

North Korea’s chief negotiator in talks with the United States welcomed Donald Trump’s suggestion of trying a “new method” in negotiations, and hailed the exit of his hawkish national security advisor.

Taiwan lashed out at China yesterday after the tiny island nation of Kiribati switched its recognition to Beijing, the second diplomatic defection in the strategically important Pacific in less than a week.

Singapore’s skies cleared Friday and air quality improved as smog from raging Indonesian forest fires drifted away, easing fears that this weekend’s Formula One race may be affected.

A Bangladeshi cattle trader was beaten to death allegedly by the Indian Border Security Force along Kathaldangi border in Thakurgaon’s Haripur upazila early yesterday.

India yesterday slashed corporate taxes to among the lowest in Asia as part of its drive to kickstart the stuttering economy, sending stock surging as analysts predicted a renewal of interest in the subcontinent.

Police have arrested four men, including a union parishad chairman, for their alleged involvement in chopping off wrists of a man in Chapainawabganj.

A group of Chhatra League men have allegedly stopped construction works of a model mosque-cum-Islamic cultural centre for not getting extortion from the contractor in Tetulia upazila of Panchagarh.

Residents of the tiny British archipelago of Bermuda battened down the hatches as Hurricane Humberto, a major category 3 storm packing fierce winds and punishing rain, brushed near the islands Wednesday evening.

BNP leader Shamsuzzaman Dudu was sued yesterday on charges of issuing a death threat to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during a TV talk show.

A “flying” electric river taxi hailed by its creators as the future of clean city transport is being put through a battery of tests in Paris this week, with a view to being in service by the spring.

A faction of teachers and students of Jahangirnagar University brought out a procession on the campus yesterday, demanding resignation of its Vice- chancellor Prof Farzana Islam over allegation of corruption.

A series of small, bullet-riddled structures, enclosed by bulky sandbags, are the only thing that act as a break from the desolation deep in the middle of the Sahara in the northwest of Mali.

The Chattogram Customs House has been sitting on incidents of money laundering for years and only recently filed two such cases a year after being asked to do so.

Father of a rape victim in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila has filed a complaint with the deputy inspector general of police in Rangpur alleging that a sub-inspector had forced his family to marry off their daughter with a man who raped her.

Officials of Bandarban Passport Office detained two people, including a Rohingya woman who was trying to obtain a Bangladeshi passport using fake documents.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday warned that action will be taken if anyone in the administration is found involved in assisting or controlling unauthorised casinos.

Fazlur Rahman Khokon has been elected president and Iqbal Hossain Shyamol general secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the pro-BNP student body.

The Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal after 27 years held polls for electing its president and general secretary last night. The BNP’s student body organised the polls following a court injunction regarding its council.