Americans will see the first direct deposits from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package hit their bank accounts this weekend, Treasury and Internal Revenue Service officials said on Friday.

The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of George Floyd over his death in police custody, a case that stirred national protests over racial injustice and police brutality.

At least six protesters were killed by security forces in Myanmar, witnesses and media reported, as activists marked the death anniversary of a student whose killing in 1988 sparked an uprising against the military government.

Two persons were killed and six were injured as a lorry hit a microbus carrying a group of musicians on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Chattogram’s Mirsarai upazila early today.

The Biden administration is granting temporary deportation relief and work permits to Myanmar citizens living in the United States because of the military's crackdown here following the February 1 coup, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Friday.

The leaders of the United States and allies India, Australia and Japan have vowed to work together to restore democracy in Myanmar, where violence has escalated as coup leaders try to disrupt a sweeping movement of protests and civil disobedience.

The first online summit of leaders of the US, India, Japan and Australia agreed to a plan to pool their financial and logistical resources to ramp up the manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines in India and distribution in the Indo-Pacific region.

According to reports, around February 11, 2021, a fishing boat with around 90 Rohingya refugees onboard set out from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh purportedly with the aim of reaching the shores of Malaysia.

A leopard cat died after being crushed under the wheels of a vehicle while crossing a road in Janakichhara area of Lawachhara forest in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila today.

India’s federal government conveyed to four northeastern Indian states sharing borders with Myanmar to keep a very strict watch on the entry of people from that country.

The World Health Organization said Friday there was no reason to stop using AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine after several countries suspended the rollout over blood clot fears.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was discharged from a state-run hospital in Kolkata today following improvement in her condition, two days after she was injured while campaigning ahead of the assembly polls in Nandigram.

A total of 65 journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2020 while doing their jobs, according to the International Federation of Journalists.

Facebook has launched Instagram Lite in Bangladesh to provide access to all users irrespective of device, platform and the network they are on.

Myanmar’s first satellite is being held on board the International Space Station following the Myanmar coup, while Japan’s space agency and a Japanese university decide what to do with it, two Japanese university officials said.

A recent upward trend in daily coronavirus infection rate could force the government to keep educational institutions shut longer than expected.

The European Union’s medicines regulator has dismissed reports of blood clots in people who had received the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, saying that there is no indication that the vaccine is linked to an increased risk of blood clots, BBC reported.

A Ukrainian couple who grew tired of arguing are trying to mend their on-off relationship by handcuffing their hands together for three months and documenting their experiences on social media.

Japanese researchers have shown that a type of sea slug are able to self-decapitate and regrow their bodies, a discovery that could have ramifications for regenerative medicine.

Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, who saw himself as the custodian of his people’s culture and was praised by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa as a “visionary monarch”, died aged 72.