Seven hikers were missing and feared dead after an avalanche in Russia’s Altai mountains, emergency officials said yesterday, as search parties were dispatched to the area.

Several thousand women from about 20 villages in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila are becoming self-reliant by making handicrafts, playing a key role in earning foreign currency as these handmade products are exported to different countries.

Boko Haram fighters have killed nine people in two separate attacks in northeastern Nigeria, looting and torching a village and ambushing three farmers, officials and local militia forces said yesterday.

Mexican authorities found Tuesday human remains that confirm the death of the 13 people on board a luxury jet that crashed over the weekend in the north of the country.

Two former heavyweights of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party have criticised a decision to re-run the Istanbul mayoral election, expressing concern the decision would damage the state’s reputation.

Four women were freed “safe and sound” Tuesday after being held hostage for five hours by an armed teenager at a bar on the outskirts of the southern French city of Toulouse, officials said.

Sudanese protest and opposition leaders yesterday called for civil disobedience in response to the military’s “disappointing” answer to their interim constitutional proposals.

A teenaged student was fatally shot and multiple others were wounded Tuesday in a school shooting by fellow pupils in the US state of Colorado, across town from one of the worst gun massacres in the country’s modern history.

The UN warned yesterday that its agencies providing food assistance to Gaza must raise tens of millions of dollars within weeks to avoid significant aid cuts.

An alleged drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab in the capital’s Agargaon early yesterday. The dead, Ashraf Ali, 35, stood accused in seven to eight drug-related cases filed with different police stations, said Lt Col Ashique Billah, commanding officer of Rab-2.

A member of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS-MN Larma) was shot dead by a group of armed men in Bandarban’s Sadar upazila yesterday. The dead is Binoy Tongchangya, 35, of Taingkali para area of the upazila’s Rajbilla union.

Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan showed off their newborn son to the world yesterday, describing having a baby as “magic”.

A prompt response from a 14-year-old boy prevented what could have been a fatal train accident in Moulvibazar, railways officials said. On his way home around 11:00pm on Tuesday, Abul Hossain, a ninth grader of Kamudpur High School in Kamalganj upazila, noticed a broken fishplate lying disconnected from the railway tracks

The number of schools and madrasas with zero pass rates in the SSC exams has more than doubled since 2015, thanks to the lack of qualified teachers, adequate infrastructures and strict government action against the poor performing institutions.

There would be no respite from the heat wave in the next few days, the Met office forecast yesterday.

Water Supply and Sewerage Authority must shoulder the responsibility for supplying polluted water to city dwellers, a platform of people living in the capital’s Jurain, Shyampur and Kadamtali areas said yesterday at a mass hearing.

Pope Francis urged the Balkans to embrace its patchwork of faiths and ethnicities during a visit to North Macedonia yesterday, where he held an open-air mass in the capital Skopje, the proud birthplace of Mother Teresa.

Ethiopia has charged powerful former intelligence chief Getachew Assefa and 25 others over alleged human rights abuses, the office of the attorney general said yesterday.

Pakistan arrested at least eight Chinese nationals for allegedly luring young Pakistani girls into fake marriages then forcing them into prostitution in China, authorities confirmed to AFP yesterday.

Cyprus’s new police chief yesterday issued the force’s first apology for its handling of the killings of seven foreign women and girls, acknowledging officers had failed to protect them.