Iran yesterday unveiled a next generation short-range ballistic missile and vowed to further boost its capabilities, Iranian media said, at a time of rising tensions with the United States.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday demanded a "total" ceasefire from Gaza's Hamas rulers in his first public comments on another deadly flare-up between the two sides.

Malians were voting yesterday in a presidential runoff likely to see Ibrahim Boubacar Keita returned to office despite criticism of his handling of the country's security crisis and allegations of election fraud.

Ten people, including two children, were taken to hospital yesterday with pellet-type wounds after reports of a shooting in Manchester in northern England, police said.

A Union Parishad member was kidnapped by some armed men from his house in Chittagong's Lohagara upazila early yesterday.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 3.40 lakh pieces of yaba tablets at Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar yesterday morning.

A woman was compelled to give birth at an unhygienic area under a tree, as nurses and staffers of Phulbari Upazila Health Complex refused to admit her to the hospital on yesterday.

Fleeing the police after a car crash in Paris, a man who had been driving without a licence took the ultimate wrong turn -- and ended up taking refuge inside the headquarters of France's spy agency.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he would be re-elected with an even bigger majority in parliament in 2019, dismissing opposition attempts to rouse opinion against his government for failing to deliver on promises of swift economic development and more jobs for young people.

The country is unlikely to face a shortage of cattle during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha as the supply of locally-reared cattle is quite enough to meet the demand for sacrificial animals, say officials.

Feud over newly formed committees of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal's (JCD) district and city units was behind the murder of its former leader Foyzul Haque Raju.

A mentally challenged boy burned to death as a fire broke out in Chandgaon area yesterday morning.

The UN Security Council has called for a meeting on August 28 to discuss the ongoing Rohingya crisis, among other issues related to Myanmar.

The quota reformists yesterday threatened the government with tougher agitation if their three-point demand, including unconditional release of their leaders and exemplary punishment of the attackers, is not met by August 31.

A pedestrian was run over and killed by a bus in the capital's Gulistan yesterday afternoon.

Four private university students were denied bail again yesterday in two cases filed over vandalism and attacks on policemen during student protests for safe road.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent noted photographer Shahidul Alam to jail after police produced him before it in a case filed for spreading propaganda and false information against the government.

After his wheat crop failed and wells dried up, Ghulam Abbas sold his animals and joined thousands of other farmers migrating to cities as Afghanistan's worst drought in living memory ravages the war-torn country.

The fight for the eastern Afghan city of Ghazni entered its third day as Taliban militants and security forces engaged in heavy clashes yesterday, despite Kabul's claim that the city was firmly under government control.

Six crows specially trained to pick up cigarette ends and rubbish will be put to work next week at a French historical theme park, its president said on Friday.