Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus yesterday told AFP that reforms are needed before his country can elect a government following the ouster of autocratic former ruler Sheikh Hasina.

The Republican Party has won a majority in the US House of Representatives, media projected Wednesday, completing their clean sweep of Congress, which will hand President-elect Donald Trump vast legislative power

Joe Biden welcomed Donald Trump back to the White House yesterday, in a show of civility to a bitter rival who failed to extend him the same courtesy four years ago.

Israeli air strikes killed at least 22 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip yesterday, as Israeli forces deepened their incursion into Beit Hanoun town in the north, forcing most remaining residents to leave.

A rare square 37-carat emerald owned by the Aga Khan fetched nearly nine million dollars at auction in Geneva on Tuesday, making it the world’s most expensive green stone.

Donald Trump has announced that the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, will lead a new US government efficiency group tasked with cutting federal waste, as the Republican president-elect added a series of seasoned figures and hardliners to his incoming administration.

Global leaders offered competing visions on how to tackle climate change at UN-led talks yesterday as a new report warned that the world must reach carbon neutrality much sooner than planned.

Blasts boomed across Kyiv yesterday morning after officials said Russia launched its first missile attack on the Ukrainian capital since August, forcing elderly women and small children to take shelter in an underground metro station.

Air pollution in India’s national capital increased to ‘severe’ on an official index yesterday for the first time this season as temperatures and wind speeds dropped, reducing visibility and affecting some flights.

Taliban authorities in eastern Afghanistan yesterday executed a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium, the sixth public execution since their return to power.

British news publisher the Guardian said yesterday it will no longer post to X, citing “disturbing content” on the social media platform, including racism and conspiracy theories.

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said Tuesday that atomic power should also be allowed to tap into climate change funds.

India’s Supreme Court (SC) yesterday strongly criticised states which were demolishing properties of suspected criminals, a practise critics say targets mostly minority Muslims, and issued guidelines to authorities.

The Israeli military yesterday struck the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut for a second consecutive day yesterday, after pounding the area with airstrikes on Tuesday. Smoke rose over Beirut.

Donald Trump’s election victory created a profound conundrum for the judge overseeing his criminal case in New York. Can he go ahead and sentence the president-elect, or would doing so potentially get in the way of Trump's constitutional responsibility to lead the nation?.Court documents m

Planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions from oil, gas and coal rose to a new record high this year, according to preliminary research from an international network of scientists at the Global Carbon Project.

Biden and Trump have sharply criticized each other for years, and their respective teams hold vastly different positions on policies from climate change to Russia to trade

A group of lenders, including the World Bank, announced a joint goal on Tuesday of increasing this finance to $120 billion by 2030, a roughly 60% increase on the amount in 2023.

Landing a new accord to boost money for climate action in developing countries is the top priority of negotiators at the UN COP29 summit in Azerbaijan.

"There were 25 people on the bus and so far 14 dead bodies have been recovered while 10 are still missing," said Wazir Asad Ali, a rescue official in Gilgit-Baltistan.