Of all the institutions set up in Geneva under the League of Nations after World War I, only one, the International Labour Organization, survived the rise of fascism and World War II.

Former Vice President Joe Biden still leads the Democratic pack of presidential contenders in a poll of Iowa voters released on Saturday, with Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg in a tight battle for second place.

Thirteen people including a bride-to-be and two children were killed when the truck they were riding on after attending a traditional pre-wedding ceremony rolled over on a mountain road, police said yesterday.

Under pressure from frequent flyers alarmed over climate change, the airline industry says it is “hellbent” on reducing emissions - but the technology needed to drastically reduce its carbon footprint is still out of reach.

An original drawing used for the first published “Tintin” cover was sold at auction on Saturday in Dallas for $1.12 million, the Heritage Auctions house told AFP.

The Department of Immigration and Passports will be reorganised soon, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal.

Three men were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Feni and Dhaka early yesterday.

A man has been arrested in Narsingdi on charge of raping a hearing-impaired woman.

Police in the last two days arrested two people on charge of attempting to kill a schoolgirl by setting her on fire in Rajbari’s Sadar upazila.

A gun battle between supporters of India’s ruling right-wing party and a regional rival has killed four people in West Bengal, police said yesterday, as violence raged in the tinderbox state.

Rangpur police authorities allowed former Sonagazi officer-in-charge Moazzem Hossain to leave for the capital two days after a Dhaka court issued an arrest warrant against him on May 27.

People leaving Chattogram or heading towards the city were stuck in long tailbacks for several hours after fishermen blocked Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Sitakunda upazila yesterday, demanding the lifting of an ongoing ban on fishing at sea.

The wife of an Awami League leader in Natore’s Baraigram upazila died on Friday from burn injuries she sustained at her in-laws’ on Monday.

An estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married when they were still children, according to the first-ever analysis on child grooms, launched on Friday by the Unicef.

The remains of 12 Muslims killed in Bosnia’s brutal 1992-95 civil war have been found in a mass grave on a mountain near Sarajevo, Fena news agency said yesterday.

Truckers overloading their vehicles and getting on Bailey bridges is causing frequent collapse of the temporary structures, some of which are decades old.

The Philippines yesterday rejected a call for an independent United Nations probe into Manila’s alleged human rights violations, describing it as interference in the affairs of the Asian nation.

Thousands of people took to the streets of Liberia’s capital Monrovia Friday to protest rising prices and corruption, posing a key political test for President George Weah.

A Kushtia court yesterday sent a man to jail on charge of torturing a 13-year-old differently abled boy.

A police constable allegedly stabbed his mother-in-law to death and wounded his wife and brother-in-law in Chuadanga’s Alamdanga upazila yesterday.