Thousands of people took to the streets of Liberia’s capital Monrovia Friday to protest rising prices and corruption, posing a key political test for President George Weah.

A Kushtia court yesterday sent a man to jail on charge of torturing a 13-year-old differently abled boy.

A police constable allegedly stabbed his mother-in-law to death and wounded his wife and brother-in-law in Chuadanga’s Alamdanga upazila yesterday.

A teenage girl was set on fire by unidentified assailants on Thursday in Rajbari.

Fierce clashes between Russia-backed government forces and jihadists have killed more than 100 combatants in northwestern Syria in the past 24 hours, a war monitor said on Friday.

British police said they had arrested four teenagers on Friday after a gang of males beat up a lesbian couple who refused to kiss for them on a London night bus.

A Nigerian radio and television station owned by an opposition politician resumed broadcasting yesterday after a court order temporarily overturned a ban imposed for alleged “inflammatory” content and unpaid licence fees.

Police yesterday arrested two youths over the alleged gang-rape of a woman in Hijla upazila of Barishal.

US President Donald Trump on Friday declared that the moon is part of Mars and criticised NASA for aiming to put astronauts back on it by 2024.

The newly appointed Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is committed to achieving the goal of Indo-Bangla bilateral relations that was set by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman during the inception of Bangladesh.

A man was sent to jail on charges of raping a 12-year-old girl at Sherpur’s Sreebordi upazila on Wednesday. Locals said Akram Hossain, 40, raped the fourth grader inside a madrasa on Eid day. Hearing her scream, they rushed to the scene, caught Akram, and handed him over to police.

The Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Cabinet Division yesterday issued contradictory statements on whether Biman pilot Capt Fazal Mahmud was detained by immigration officials in Doha for not having his passport on him.

Because of low prices, Allam Hossain decided not to sell his paddy but rather wait for the situation to improve. However, as Eid was around the corner, he went out to the local market with 30kg of mangoes from his four trees.

A US green-card holder from Bangladesh was charged with illegally acquiring firearms as part of a plan to attack Times Square, one of mid-town Manhattan’s most crowded crossroads, federal officials said yesterday.

Nigeria’s broadcasting authority said Thursday it had shut down a private radio and a television station both owned by a key opposition figure who earlier claimed his media operations were targetted in a crackdown.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will recommit the United States on a visit to Bangkok to supporting the development of Southeast Asian nations in the face of a rising China, an official said Thursday.

US scientists who studied the performance of myriad athletes -- including adventurous souls who spent five long months running across the United States -- have come up with an estimate of the absolute physiological boundary of human endurance.

2018 was a “golden year” for natural gas with demand surging worldwide, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said yesterday, prompting concern from environmental groups over the climate impact of the world’s new favourite fuel.

An estimated 3.3 million people have fled the crisis in Venezuela since the start of 2016, including one million who have left the country since November, the United Nations said yesterday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday accused Russia of violating peace agreements and vowed a tough response after two soldiers were killed in the war-torn east.