Alfonso Bennett’s sisters agreed to take him off life support after doctors at Mercy Hospital in Chicago told them there was no hope for recovery.

Mexican authorities on Friday rescued 24 Central American migrants, including nine children, who had been held hostage for nearly three weeks in the crime-ridden state of Guanajuato, officials said.

Thousands of protesters marched in Yangon yesterday as outrage over the rape of a two-year-old spilled onto the streets following a viral online campaign in a case that has left Myanmar society reeling.

Like most residents of Amran, a strategic gateway to Yemen’s capital Sanaa, Mohammed al-Najri thought the capture of his city by Huthi rebels five years ago would not last long.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sacked the governor of Turkey’s central bank and replaced him with his deputy, a presidential decree said yesterday, after months of tension with the government over high interest rates.

The two finalists in the race to succeed Theresa May as Britain’s prime minister wooed voters on Friday in Scotland, where frontrunner Boris Johnson’s “no-deal Brexit” threats are fanning the flames of independence.

A traffic police officer was killed after being run over by a bus in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area early yesterday.

The government is determined to protect the rivers from encroachment, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said yesterday.

A man died by drowning in the Baral river of Natore’s Bagatipara upazila while trying to escape detention yesterday afternoon.

Emergency rescue crews fanned out yesterday to assess damage from the second powerful earthquake to hit Southern California in as many days -- a 7.1 magnitude tremor that revived fears of the so-called Big One the region has feared for decades.

Bangladesh wants a stronger role of Malaysia, an influential member of the Asean, in addressing the Rohingya crisis as visiting Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah holds a meeting with his Bangladeshi counterpart in Dhaka today.

Bangladesh Railway east zone has left some vulnerable and damaged rail bridges unrepaired for years leading to trains having to crawl pass them risking lives

Health condition of ailing Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad remained unchanged, but doctors are hoping that he might get well thanks to the modern treatment facilities, JP acting chairman GM Quader said yesterday.

Three major streets in the capital are off limits to rickshaws from today with experts saying the “hasty” move without any alternative arrangements is all set to put many commuters in trouble.

At least one Bangladeshi was killed and two others were injured in an airstrike on a migrant detention centre at Tajoura in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Tuesday.

German car giant BMW yesterday said its boss Harald Krueger would not seek another term when his current office runs out next April.

India’s newly re-elected government yesterday promised an easing of foreign investment rules and more infrastructure spending in an effort to boost flagging growth rates and create jobs.

Google yesterday agreed to change how it publishes New Zealand news after top officials in Wellington lashed the US tech giant for breaching court suppression orders in a high-profile murder case.

Echoing a recent statement of the High Court, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the government did not like extrajudicial killings.

The health condition of Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has slightly improved but he is yet to get out of danger.