Like most residents of Amran, a strategic gateway to Yemen’s capital Sanaa, Mohammed al-Najri thought the capture of his city by Huthi rebels five years ago would not last long.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sacked the governor of Turkey’s central bank and replaced him with his deputy, a presidential decree said yesterday, after months of tension with the government over high interest rates.

The two finalists in the race to succeed Theresa May as Britain’s prime minister wooed voters on Friday in Scotland, where frontrunner Boris Johnson’s “no-deal Brexit” threats are fanning the flames of independence.

A traffic police officer was killed after being run over by a bus in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area early yesterday.

The government is determined to protect the rivers from encroachment, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said yesterday.

A man died by drowning in the Baral river of Natore’s Bagatipara upazila while trying to escape detention yesterday afternoon.

Emergency rescue crews fanned out yesterday to assess damage from the second powerful earthquake to hit Southern California in as many days -- a 7.1 magnitude tremor that revived fears of the so-called Big One the region has feared for decades.

Bangladesh wants a stronger role of Malaysia, an influential member of the Asean, in addressing the Rohingya crisis as visiting Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah holds a meeting with his Bangladeshi counterpart in Dhaka today.

Bangladesh Railway east zone has left some vulnerable and damaged rail bridges unrepaired for years leading to trains having to crawl pass them risking lives

Health condition of ailing Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad remained unchanged, but doctors are hoping that he might get well thanks to the modern treatment facilities, JP acting chairman GM Quader said yesterday.

Three major streets in the capital are off limits to rickshaws from today with experts saying the “hasty” move without any alternative arrangements is all set to put many commuters in trouble.

Police arrested a teenager for allegedly raping a speech-impaired girl in Kushtia on Thursday while law enforcers on Friday arrested the mother and sister of a youth who allegedly raped a 10th-grader in Thakurgaon.

Temperatures in Alaska’s largest city Anchorage have soared to a sweltering all-time record of 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 centigrade) as a heat wave grips the US state which straddles the Arctic Circle.

Alfonso Bennett’s sisters agreed to take him off life support after doctors at Mercy Hospital in Chicago told them there was no hope for recovery.

German car giant BMW yesterday said its boss Harald Krueger would not seek another term when his current office runs out next April.

India’s newly re-elected government yesterday promised an easing of foreign investment rules and more infrastructure spending in an effort to boost flagging growth rates and create jobs.

Google yesterday agreed to change how it publishes New Zealand news after top officials in Wellington lashed the US tech giant for breaching court suppression orders in a high-profile murder case.

Echoing a recent statement of the High Court, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the government did not like extrajudicial killings.

The health condition of Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has slightly improved but he is yet to get out of danger.

Police yesterday arrested another madrasa principal on charge of attempting to rape a second-grader in Netrakona’s Kendua upazila, just a day after the arrest of a Narayanganj madrasa principal over raping about a dozen female students.