The Bangladesh Bank has raised transaction limits for mobile financial service (MFS) providers such as bKash, Rocket, and Nagad ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, a time when money flow in the economy typically increases.

The Directorate of Primary Education has proposed that stipends for school students be disbursed only through Nagad, a mobile-banking service.

North Korea's weekend rocket launch repeated earlier success rather than breaking new ground, using a nearly identical design from a 2012 launch, experts said, adding the reclusive country probably remained years from building a long-range nuclear missile.

North Korea launches a long-range rocket, the first day of its announced eight-day launch window and about a month after the country's fourth nuclear test leads to international condemnation.

A rocket mission to put a new spacecraft in orbit for London-based Inmarsat is declared a success.

A group affiliated with Islamic State says it fired three rockets into Israel from Egypt's Sinai peninsula.

Yemen's rebels fire rockets into Saudi Arabia, killing at least three people and purportedly capturing five soldiers in an attack showing insurgents' ability to launch assaults.