President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan in autocratic style for 30 years, was yesterday overthrown and arrested in a coup by the armed forces.

Four alleged criminals were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers and drug peddlers in Dhaka, Chattogram, Meherpur and Cox's Bazar yesterday.

The US Department of State has introduced a new risk indicator for 35 countries, including Bangladesh, to communicate more clearly to American citizens the “risk of kidnapping and hostage taking” by criminal and terrorist actors around the world.

Senior journalist Mahfuz Ullah was flown to Thailand last night through an air ambulance for better treatment.

A 65-year-old man was beaten to death by what police said was a group of villagers in Rajshahi's Bagmara yesterday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested two people in a case filed over misappropriation of about Tk 75.66 crore from the state-run BASIC Bank.

Motin alias Moitta Dakat, the ringleader of a 50-member gang, had been conducting robbery for the past 20 years. He and his men broke into at least 100 households and looted many people at gunpoint during the time.

More than half of the 45 bridges, built in two Natore upazilas a couple of years ago, are not bringing much benefit to the local people.

Nigerian troops thwarted a Boko Haram attack on the northeastern city of Damaturu, killing several jihadists and seizing weapons, the army said yesterday.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the delivery of Turkey's disputed Russian S-400 missile defence systems could be earlier than initially planned, Hurriyet daily reported yesterday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday called a full meeting of a top committee of the ruling Workers' Party to address what he described as the "prevailing tense situation", state media reported.

Wreckage from a Japanese F-35A stealth fighter jet has been found a day after it disappeared off the radar over the Pacific, the country's defence minister said yesterday.

China yesterday derided "wild talk" from Taiwan's president as it defended a flight by its fighter jets across the traditionally respected maritime line dividing the island from the mainland last month as a routine exercise.

The wife of Malaysia's ex-leader was yesterday hit with a new corruption charge, the 20th since her husband's shock election loss, and complained she was the victim of "slander".

An alleged robber was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Kishoreganj's Bhairab upazila early yesterday.

Eastern forces and troops loyal to the Tripoli government battled on the outskirts of Libya's capital yesterday as thousands of residents fled from the fighting.

Astronomers yesterday unveiled the first photo of a black hole, one of the star-devouring monsters scattered throughout the Universe and obscured by impenetrable shields of gravity.

The religious affairs ministry has issued a show-cause notice to 103 hajj agencies for poor arrangement of accomodation and transportation for hajj pilgrims in Makkah last year.

The managing director of Sylhet Gas Fields Ltd (SGFL) was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his residential quarters in Sylhet's Jaintiapur upazila yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed the principal of a madrasa and one of his cohorts on a five-day remand each, while another was sent to Juvenile Correction Centre kidnapping and murdering an eight-year-old student in Demra for ransom.