South Korea intends to build a museum in memory of wartime sex slaves for Japanese troops, a government minister said yesterday, re-igniting perennial tensions in the two neighbours' relationship.

Turkey detained 42 staff of two Istanbul universities including a prominent academic as part of an investigation into the group blamed for last year's failed coup, state media reported yesterday.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Kuwait yesterday, the key mediator between Qatar and its Arab neighbours, for talks aimed at defusing the Gulf's worst crisis in years.

A dozen people have died after drinking toxic homemade alcohol in Uttar Pradesh state, police said yesterday, the latest incident of bootleg booze killing Indian drinkers.

President Donald Trump prodded US lawmakers yesterday to pass an unpopular health care reform bill before Congress goes on its summer recess next month.

The health and family welfare ministry yesterday directed all medical colleges and public hospitals to open help desks to effectively tackle the already widespread chikungunya disease, transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes.

A former female employee of Farhad Mazhar's NGO in a judicial statement yesterday said the writer contacted her several times on July 3, the day he reportedly went missing from outside his Adabar residence in the capital, court and police sources said

The Supreme Court yesterday scrapped the High Court orders that granted bail to a former deputy commissioner and a former additional deputy commissioner of Cox's Bazar in a Tk 20 crore corruption case.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court order that directed the authorities concerned to remove the stairs at different points of Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover in Dhaka.

Iraqi forces fought to eliminate the last pockets of Islamic State group resistance in Mosul yesterday after the premier visited the devastated city to congratulate troops on securing victory.

Flood situations in Bogra, Jamalpur, Gaibandha, Tangail and Pabna have been deteriorating as the Jamuna and Padma rivers were flowing above the danger level, flooding some new places yesterday.

After the emergence of “Neo JMB” in 2014, its leaders chose Sohel Mahfuz for his expertise in bomb-making and knowledge about arms smuggling routes and smugglers in bordering areas.

The government would continue building the Rampal power plant and alongside do a Strategic Environment Assessment in the country's Southwest as per the condition of Unesco, said Prime Minister's Energy Affairs Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury yesterday.

Two days after his suspension, the High Court yesterday cleared the way for BNP-backed Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) Mayor MA Mannan to resume his duties.

Born without arms and legs, Janis McDavid, a 25-year-old youth from Germany, spent a large part of his childhood convincing himself that he was like everyone else.

Qatar yesterday announced it was establishing a committee to pursue compensation claims potentially worth billions of dollars over the country's "blockade" by Gulf states.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory in the "liberated" city of Mosul yesterday, his office said, in the biggest defeat yet for the Islamic State group.

Senegal yesterday kicked off campaigning for parliamentary elections later this month, with a record number of candidates vying to weaken President Macky Sall -- including 91-year-old ex-leader Abdoulaye Wade.

The leader of Turkey's main opposition party was to address a mass rally yesterday in Istanbul at the culmination of an almost month-long march, in a rare challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

G20 countries have managed to avoid a total bust-up with Donald Trump over climate change, leaving the door open for Washington to return to the Paris Agreement -- but at the cost of risky concessions.