The reports of attacks on commercial ships came after the US said it "eliminated" 16 Iranian mine-layers in the area. Elsewhere, two drones were downed near Dubai airport.

Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei the country’s new supreme leader following the killing of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, state media reports.

Telugu-speaking families have lived in Bangladesh for generations. Not on screen, but in railway colonies, municipal quarters, tea gardens and narrow government housing blocks. They are Bangladeshi ...