Donald Trump said Friday he has not been a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen -- even before a clip from the British comedian’s new Borat movie forced the US president’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani into an awkward explanation.

More than 150 monuments and buildings across Europe were set to be lit up blue yesterday to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations.

President Donald Trump cast his vote in Florida yesterday ahead of another punishing day with three campaign rallies as he works to close the gap with Joe Biden and pull off a 2016-style upset win on November 3.

A suicide bomber struck near an education centre in the Afghan capital yesterday, killing at least 18 people in the latest attack to rock the conflict-wracked country.

Nineteen people have died from Covid-19 in the country in the 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Rescuers recovered the bodies of five people from the Agunmukha river in Patuakhali’s Rangabali upazila yesterday morning, about 40 hours after a speedboat carrying 18 passengers, including the five, sank in rough weather.

Yousuf Mohamed Al Othman, foreign affairs minister of Qatar, has assured the Bangladesh envoy of issuing exceptional entry permits to stranded expatriate Bangladeshis in short time.

Beijing has sharply reacted to Washington’s recent remarks regarding China’s role in resolving the Rohingya crisis, China-India border tensions, Taiwan Strait, South China Sea and the Hong Kong national security legislation.

Grim data highlighted the struggle for authorities around the world to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control Saturday, as the US reported nearly 83,000 infections in a single day, France extended a curfew to two-thirds of citizens and Germany’s death toll passed 10,000.

Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has told two Pakistani journalists who met him recently in Dhaka that Pakistan is hindering progress towards solution to the humanitarian as well as political problems in the sub-continent by deferring recognition of Bangladesh.

A seven-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a 55-year-old man at Char Jabbar union in Subarnachar upazila of Noakhali on Wednesday.

The freshwater dolphins in Bangladesh are only decreasing in number over the last few years mainly for manmade hazards, say experts.

The original copy of the constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh will be a handwritten document and will bear the signatures of all members of the Constituent Assembly.

Expecting mothers needing specialised care in remote villages under Dharmapasha upazila of Sunamganj still have to endure hours-long potentially risky journeys to the nearest public health facility, despite two new mother and children welfare centres in the area.

Israeli warplanes struck suspected Hamas military targets in the Gaza Strip before dawn on Friday following rocket fire from the blockaded Palestinian territory.

Bangladesh yesterday lodged an amended submission to the UN on the limits of its outer continental shelf in the Bay of Bengal.

The coronavirus is spreading even faster than it did during the first phase of the pandemic, a French government adviser said yesterday as authorities across Europe scrambled to try to contain the disease once again racing through the continent.

Libya’s two warring factions signed a “permanent” ceasefire agreement yesterday after five days of talks at the United Nations, which hailed the deal as a historic moment following years of turmoil and bloodshed.

Fourteen people died from Covid-19 in the 24 hours preceding 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services.

Two women accused of stabbing two other women wearing Muslim headscarves near the Eiffel Tower in Paris and trying to rip off their veils have been charged with assault and racist slurs, legal sources told AFP yesterday.