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For decades, long rivers of smoke and haze have spread across the Indo-Gangetic Plain from October to December as farmers burn off crop residue after the rice harvest.
Marking Bangladesh's 55th Victory Day, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus paid rich tributes to the martyrs of the Liberation War by placing a wreath at the National Memorial in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.
Gaurav Luthra and Saurabh Luthra fled to Thailand hours after a massive fire at their nightclub, the 'Birch by Romeo Lane', in Goa left 25 people dead on December 6.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi began a three-nation tour of Jordan, Ethiopia, and Oman on December 15. He reached Jordan on December 15. From there, he will head to Ethiopia, and then to Oman, the final leg of his visit.
Flowers were laid on Tuesday in front of the shuttered shop of Ahmed al Ahmed, the 43-year-old tobacco shop owner who locals hailed as the "Bondi hero" after he wrestled a gun from one of the attackers during a mass shooting on Sydney's Bondi Beach.
The United States President Donald Trump has caused outrage by linking the killings of Hollywood icon Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner to their personal dislike of his presidency.