US prosecutors said on Friday President Donald Trump directed his personal lawyer to make illegal hush payments to two women ahead of the 2016 election, and also detailed a previously unknown attempt by a Russian to help the Trump campaign.

A 13-year-old girl was killed as a bus hit a motorcycle from behind in the capital's Gulshan area yesterday.

Taherul Islam, a retired primary teacher of Shara-Gopalpur village in Pabna's Ishwardi upazila, set up a free school for underprivileged children seven years ago.

A new resolution in the US House of Representatives, placed by a Democrat congressman, has urged Bangladeshi political leaders and judicial authorities to respect the will of voters and ensure their free participation in the December 30 polls.

Belgium's notorious Africa Museum reopens on Saturday after a five-year restoration that curators hope will bury its reputation as a colonialist holdover.

OPEC ministers yesterday resumed talks before further discussions with 10 key partner countries, including Russia, later in the day to thrash out an agreement on production cuts.

Turkish police yesterday arrested dozens of military personnel in another round of nationwide raids against people with alleged links to the group blamed for the 2016 failed coup, state media reported.

Russian police yesterday closed a probe into alleged embezzlement by a foundation set up by acclaimed director Alexander Sokurov to help young filmmakers, after President Vladimir Putin reportedly intervened.

Thousands of vulnerable women and girls from northern Myanmar are being trafficked to China and forced to marry, a study said yesterday, offering a rare look at an issue that grips the conflict-hit borderlands.

Jingling amid a Kuala Lumpur skyline, nearly a dozen people sit in a hanging sleigh-like restaurant as it is raised by a crane some 45 metres (147 feet) above the street below.

Angela Merkel bowed out as leader of her Christian Democrats yesterday with an emotional speech to her conservative party as it met to pick her successor who will move into pole position to become Germany's next chancellor.

Police seized 100,000 pieces of yaba from a lorry and arrested its driver in Cox's Bazar yesterday.

Rohingya Muslims who paid hundreds of dollars to flee squalid Myanmar camps by boat are destitute since they were stopped at sea and returned, the UN refugee agency told AFP yesterday.

Exhausted Rohingyas walking with loads of firewood on their heads used to be a common sight around the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, raising concerns about the long-term impact on the forest.

At least seven people, including three students, were killed in road accidents in Narsingdi and Dhaka yesterday.

The number of driving licence-seekers has seen a sharp rise following the unprecedented student protest for road safety in July-August, and the authorities are struggling to cope with the pressure due to inadequate training facilities and manpower.

The ruling Awami League is well ahead of its archrival BNP in terms of picking women candidates for the December 30 national election.

Awami League candidates

Unidentified criminals stabbed a Chhatra League leader to death in the city's Karail area early yesterday allegedly over personal enmity.

BNP candidates