Israeli border police yesterday shot and wounded what they said was a Palestinian knife attacker near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

A blind Japanese sailor completed his non-stop Pacific voyage yesterday, local media reported, becoming the first sightless person on record to navigate a vessel across the vast ocean.

A seething President Donald Trump launched a tirade Friday against the “bullshit” Mueller report on how he tried to thwart the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, while a leading Democratic opponent urged his impeachment.

Two teenagers have been arrested over the killing of a journalist shot dead in Northern Ireland, police said yesterday, after a murder that has triggered international condemnation.

The traffic department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police filed 4,729 cases and realised fines of Tk 23.23 lakh in separate drives against traffic rules violators in the capital on Friday.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday held an extraordinary hearing after a former employee of the apex court accused Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi of sexual harassment and persecution.

Hosts Bangladesh will take on United Arab Emirates when the first Bangamata U-19 Women’s International Gold Cup kicks off tomorrow at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka.

Police have detained a youth on charge of raping a three-year-old girl in Bagerhat’s Fakirhat upazila.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said 495 people have so far been arrested for illegal migration from neighbouring countries.

Seven people, including a three-year old, were killed in road crashes in Mymensingh, Dinajpur and Chattogram yesterday.

Authorities of Kalagasia Union High School in Narayanganj yesterday kept their students lined up on the campus stopping exams to welcome local lawmaker AKM Salim Osman.

The issue of Khaleda Zia’s bail and the oath-taking of the BNP lawmakers-elect are not linked, Awami League acting general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif said yesterday.

Three world-renowned professional mountaineers -- two Austrians and an American -- were missing and presumed dead after an

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reiterated her firm stance on Rohingya repatriation, saying the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals must go back to their homeland.

Nigeria’s former most senior judge who was found guilty of graft charges has appealed his conviction, his lawyers said yesterday.

Athens yesterday installed its first Alexander the Great statue, a project mired in bureaucratic delays for nearly three decades.

Mali’s prime minister resigned along with his entire government on Thursday following criticism over their handling of an upsurge of violence in the centre of the country and a massacre last month that left 160 people dead.

A Paris appeal court on Thursday handed a 30-year jail term to Abdelkader Merah, brother of a French jihadist who shot dead seven people, finding him guilty of being an accomplice in the 2012 murders.

Hopes for a breakthrough in a push to end Afghanistan’s gruelling conflict suffered a major setback yesterday after a key summit between the Taliban and Afghan officials was indefinitely postponed.

The UN said yesterday it had evacuated 163 refugees from war-ravaged Libya to neighbouring Niger, but more than 3,000 others were still trapped in detention centres affected by clashes.