Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have pledged $100 million to a women's business fund supported by Ivanka Trump, daughter of the president who yesterday wound up a visit to Riyadh.

A police investigation did not find any major fault of law enforcers in dealing with the complaint over the Banani double rape incident, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia yesterday said.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for a concerted global initiative to block supply of weapons and money to terrorists to ensure the effectiveness of anti-militancy campaigns.

The family of a man who died falling into a sewer through an open manhole on a box culvert in the capital's Paltan on March 6 has received Tk 50 lakh under a Supreme Court directive.

The Supreme Court yesterday asked the lawyers concerned not to make any political arguments before it during the hearing on the appeal against the High Court verdict that scrapped the 16th amendment of the constitution.

Unidentified gunmen have shot dead four policemen in Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials said yesterday.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday slammed dishonest teachers depriving students in classrooms to provide private lessons in exchange of money.

A mild heat wave is sweeping across Dhaka and Khulna divisions along with the regions of Rajshahi, Pabna, Chandpur, and Barisal. According to an official of Bangladesh Meteorological department, this may continue for two or three more days.

A Bahraini court yesterday sentenced revered Shia cleric Isa Qassim to a suspended one-year jail term for illegal fundraising and money laundering, a judicial source said.

Egyptian authorities have referred 48 suspected Islamic State group members to military trial over three deadly church bombings, the public prosecutor's office said in a statement yesterday.

Brazilian President Michel Temer on Saturday angrily challenged a recorded conversation implicating him in a corruption probe, saying he would continue as president and asking the Supreme Court to verify the integrity of the recording.

An American climber died yesterday on his way to the summit of Mount Everest, expedition organisers said, the latest death to mar the ongoing climbing season.

Ousted South Korean leader Park Geun-Hye is due to go on trial Tuesday over the spectacular corruption scandal that brought her down, the country's third former president to appear in the dock.

The BNP is likely to stage a rally in the capital on May 24 protesting the raid on party Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office on Saturday.

The White House announced a huge arms deal with Saudi Arabia yesterday as President Donald Trump took his first steps on the world

An attack on an airbase in south Libya has killed 141 people, mostly soldiers loyal to military strongman Khalifa Haftar, a spokesman

Syrian rebels started leaving the last opposition-held district of Homs city on Saturday in the final phase of an evacuation deal that will

Chinese navy ships are visiting Myanmar and will conduct communications, search and rescue, and other joint exercises with the

Taliban fighters launched a three-pronged attack on parts of the central-eastern Afghan city of Ghazni overnight, driving a Humvee

Pippa Middleton, younger sister of Kate, Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, was married in a small English country church on Saturday