Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has ratified a law granting authorities the right to monitor social media users in the country as part of tightening internet controls, the official gazette said Saturday.

The government would spend $37 billion by 2031 for ensuring food and water security and fighting disasters, according to a draft of the Delta Plan 2100.

Law enforcers in Joypurhat yesterday gave free helmets to motorcyclists who had valid papers and driving licences to raise awareness on road safety and encourage bikers to follow traffic rules.

Bangladesh football team coach Jamie Day and a few of his players disembarked from the team bus and took Ubers home on Thursday after learning that their driver was not carrying a licence, said a team official preferring not to be named.

The US military plans to cancel $300 million in aid to Pakistan due to Islamabad's lack of "decisive actions" in support of American strategy in the region, the Pentagon said Saturday.

The second-in-command of an outlawed group was killed in what police claims was a shootout between police and his armed cohorts at Alokdanga village under Saorail union of Kalukhali upazila in Rajbari around 2:30am on Sunday.

Hundreds of Bangladeshis and other foreign workers usually throng popular destinations like Bukit Bintang, Kota Raya, Jalan Petaling and Jalan Silang in Kuala Lumpur in the weekend which is on Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday lauded the US decision to halt funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, arguing the body perpetuates the problem instead of solving it.

More than 38,000 pigs have been culled across China, state media said yesterday, as the world's largest pork producer scrambles to contain an outbreak of African swine fever.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday left for a visit to Israel and Jordan, pursuing a pivot away from his nation's long-time reliance on American military hardware and support.

Nine people were injured Saturday on the sidelines of opposing demonstrations by the far-right and the left in the German city of Chemnitz, which was hit by anti-migrant protests last week.

A bus crash in Ecuador's Andes mountains left 11 people dead, authorities said Saturday, bringing the country's death toll from such accidents to 46 in the past three weeks.

Tens of thousands of mourners thronged the streets in Ukraine's rebel stronghold of Donetsk yesterday to pay their final respects to an assassinated separatist leader, who was praised as a "brother" and a "hero" by an aide of Vladimir Putin.

General Scott Miller took command of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan yesterday, as worsening violence erodes hopes for peace in the war-torn country.

Iran's parliament called off a planned vote to impeach the education minister yesterday, Iranian media reported, offering some respite for the embattled government of President Hassan Rouhani.

China's flagship infrastructure project in the Maldives, a bridge linking capital Male with the airport island, has again brought into focus the widening gulf between India and its Indian Ocean neighbour.

Following a High Court order, police have finally recorded the case against a minister's son and others over the killing of Jubo League leader Sajjad Alam Sheikh Azad.

A Saudi official hinted Friday the kingdom was moving forward with a plan to dig a canal that would turn the neighbouring Qatari peninsula into an island, amid a diplomatic feud between the Gulf nations.

Mohafez Rahman from Kurigram had to have both of his legs amputated from below the knee recently at Rangpur Medical College Hospital.

A businessman, allegedly set on fire by people who owed him money in Fatullah in Narayanganj, died from burn injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital's Burn Unit yesterday.