"You'll have to forgive me if I seem a little distracted," said the Saudi ambassador to the UK as his eyes flicked towards his mobile phone. "I'm keeping an eye on the results coming in from Wisconsin."

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday urged both the government and the Election Commission to take a lesson from the US presidential election.

In a statement, the party said, “The people of Bangladesh together with the people of the friendly United States are happy with his (Biden’s) historic victory.” The party hoped that the friendly relations between Bangladesh and the United States will be strengthened further with Biden’s election as the 46th President of the USA. “We hope he’ll play an i