A Chinese lunar rover landed on the far side of the moon yesterday, in a global first that boosts Beijing's ambitions to become a space superpower.

Saudi Arabia's attorney general sought the death penalty for five of 11 defendants charged with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as their high-profile trial opened in Riyadh yesterday.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday said she would not say anything about Sunday's national election.

Prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi and British-Iranian detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe announced Thursday plans to go on hunger strike in Tehran's Evin Prison to protest against the denial of medical treatment.

Israeli far-right activists clashed with police Thursday as authorities moved in to clear away two mobile homes illegally set up in the occupied West Bank.

An Australian man triggered an emergency police response after a noisy exchange with a spider startled a passerby into reporting what sounded like a violent disturbance to the authorities, media reported.

A Jubo League activist was stabbed to death allegedly by his rivals in Pirojpur Sadar upazila yesterday.

Jatiya Oikyafront candidates in the national election will submit to the Election Commission a memorandum on “irregularities” in the polls.

Spain's far-right party Vox would enter parliament with 43-45 seats if an election was held today, giving conservative parties an absolute majority, a poll showed yesterday.

Australia announced the closure of Melbourne's controversial Maribyrnong detention centre on Wednesday, one of several facilities used to lock up immigrants who arrived without papers.

She is turning 60 this year and still doesn't have a single wrinkle.

A total of 556 people died in 15 plane crashes in 2018, significantly more than the previous year, but long-term trends show safety improving, an aviation watchdog reported.

A former British officer who arrived in Pakistan with the Raj and stayed to become one of its most famous educators, with students including Prime Minister Imran Khan, has died in Lahore aged 101, officials said yesterday.

The Election Commission has started preparations to hold upazila council elections in March.

At least 25 people were injured, 25 shops damaged and a hospital vandalised in separate clashes involving Awami League men in Shariatpur and Laxmipur in the last two days.

Firearms, including sophisticated ones, in the hills are not only for the extremists' “ideals”, they are now a means for their financial solvency.

Three suspected drug dealers were killed in separate “shootouts” with law enforcers in Feni and Cumilla yesterday.

Taiwan's unification with the mainland is "inevitable", President Xi Jinping said yesterday, warning against any efforts to promote the island's independence and saying China would not renounce the option of using military force to bring it into the fold.

A Khulna court yesterday placed Hedayet Hossain Mollah, local correspondent of the Dhaka Tribune, on a three-day remand in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday sought cooperation from all, including the officials of public and private organisations, to establish a poverty- and hunger-free “Sonar Bangla” as dreamt by the Father of the Nation.