US President Donald Trump has said British former foreign minister Boris Johnson would make an “excellent” prime minister to replace Theresa May.

The gunman who killed 12 people at a Virginia Beach municipal building before dying in a gun battle with police was identified yesterday as a disgruntled city engineer and co-worker of most of the victims.

The students had only demanded fair prices of paddy for farmers, but the university authorities think it was anti-government activities.

By the time Saminul Islam reached the government buying centre with 500kg of paddy on Thursday, the officials had already wrapped up the procurement activities there. No more buying, he was told, because the procurement limit was reached.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday named his trusted aide Amit Shah to the key home affairs ministry as part of a major cabinet shakeup for his second term in office.

Police yesterday arrested some 45 people, including 10 women, from different areas of Patuakhali town for their alleged involvement in leaking the question paper of government primary schools’ assistant teacher recruitment test.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday assured that New Delhi’s cooperation in resolving the protracted Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh would continue as President Abdul Hamid met him at Hyderabad House.

Although traffic congestion has become way too common in the capital, the Eid shopping spree and ongoing construction work of metro rail in the middle of roads has exacerbated its severity.

Police yesterday recovered a throat-slit body of a 16-year-old student in Kishoreganj’s Bhairab upazila. He was allegedly abducted and murdered by his classmates.

A Dutch birdwatcher held by Islamic State-linked militants was killed yesterday during a firefight between his kidnappers and soldiers in the southern Philippines, according to the military, which said he was shot by his captors as he tried to escape.

Backbencher Mark Harper became the 12th Conservative MP to enter the contest to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May, the Daily Telegraph reported yesterday, as a shock poll highlighted the task facing her successor.

Three militants were killed in a gun battle with security forces in Indian Kashmir yesterday amid widespread protests across the divided Himalayan region, police said.

The US-led coalition said yesterday it had unintentionally killed more than 1,300 civilians in air strikes during its fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria since 2014.

Japan yesterday announced a policy to reduce marine plastic waste, part of efforts to raise the issue at the G20 summit it will host next month.

A transportation company is betting its sleek new hydrogen-powered electric flying vehicles will someday serve as taxis, cargo carriers and ambulances of the sky, but experts say they will have to clear a number of regulatory hurdles before being approved for take-off years in the future.

Washington will impose a five percent tariff on all goods from Mexico -- increasing to as much as 25 percent -- until “illegal migrants” stop coming through the country into the US, President Donald Trump said Thursday.

A sixth grader was allegedly raped by two guards of a litchi orchard in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur yesterday after she went there to collect fallen litchis.

A female student, who passed the Secondary School Certificate examinations this year, was killed as a bus ran her over in front of her mother in the capital’s Farmgate yesterday morning.

A member of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Samhati Samiti’s MN Larma faction was found dead in Rangamati’ Langadu upazila yesterday.

Bangladesh Coast Guard detained 58 Rohingyas, including children and women, and two alleged traffickers during a drive off the coast of St Martin’s Island in Cox’s Bazar yesterday evening.