Palestinian prime minister-designate Mohammad Shtayyeh will announce the make-up of his new government in the coming days, Palestinian officials said yesterday.

Malaysian authorities were on the lookout for boats believed to be carrying up to 200 Rohingyas after dozens of migrants were found near a beach in the country's north yesterday.

The primary and mass education ministry yesterday asked all district primary education officers to identify the highly risky primary school buildings across the country and inform the ministry within 15 days.

Administrating fire drills and regular maintenance of fire detection and protection systems are of utmost necessity to save lives during a fire tragedy, said Architect Jalal Ahmed, president of the Institute of Architects Bangladesh.

A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in Jashore's Keshabpur upazila on Sunday night.

Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar pushed on with his assault on Tripoli yesterday, defying international calls for a ceasefire days into a battle that has left dozens dead.

The owner of the Suprobhat Paribahan bus yesterday confessed to a magistrate that the conductor, as instructed by him, was at the wheel when the vehicle ran over and killed university student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury on Pragati Sarani last month.

For four years, Rajuk has been silent on reported incidents of building approvals with forged signatures of the architects concerned, said the president of Institute of Architects Bangladesh (IAB) at a press conference yesterday.

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the respondents to explain within four weeks why they should not be directed to pay compensation to the families of Barguna school victims.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday feared that vested quarters might exploit the frustrated Rohingya youths to materialise their ill motive.

A total of 614 members of several outlaw gangs will surrender to police tomorrow in Pabna, said home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday.

Workers of state-owned jute mills from across the country yesterday announced fresh demonstrations, including road blocks next week, to press home their nine-point demand.

At least nine people, including five policemen, were injured as activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League and police clashed on Chittagong University campus yesterday.

Another accused in the case over the gang rape of a mother of six in Noakhali's Subarnachar upazila landed in jail yesterday after he surrendered before a court.

Locals confined five policemen, including a sub-inspector, to a house when the policemen were “ransacking” the house at Dakkhin Poirtola in Brahmanbaria town yesterday evening while trying to arrest a murder accused.

Algeria's parliament is set to meet Tuesday to name an interim successor to president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, state media reported, after mass protests pushed the ailing leader from power.

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he had not read Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report investigating contacts between his 2016 campaign and Russia that his Democratic opponents say should be released in full.

A Chattogram court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of drilling holes into a youth's legs in the port city.

A British man poisoned along with his partner with a nerve agent, amid an assassination attempt on a Russian ex-spy in England blamed on Moscow, met its top UK envoy on Saturday, according to reports.

Two Rajshahi University students died allegedly after drinking unauthorised liquor yesterday, just a day after the death of a Russian engineer working at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant allegedly due to the same cause.