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.

Bangladesh will begin seeking bids for its second nuclear power plant project as soon as next year to expand and diversify the country's power supply amid its prolonged economic boom, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide mainly from fossil fuel burning will rise 2.7 percent in 2018, scientists said, signalling a world "completely off course" in the fight against climate change.

Corruption has become a norm in today's society -- a reality that must change through building an enlightened citizenry, said anti-corruption campaigners and journalists yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government did not want to see the people burning alive which had happened in 2014-15 in the name of resisting election and ousting the government.

A nine-year-old boy in Colorado this week threw his first snowball -- legally -- after a battle to overturn a century-old ordinance banning snowball fights in the small town of Severance.

A man was shot during the inspection of a shotgun at the office of Puthia upazila nirbahi officer yesterday.

Respect Ruvimbo Topodzi was 15 and walking home from school in her native Zimbabwe when a 22-year-old man asked her out. She turned him down but it was too late.

The government yesterday signed a contract with a China-Bangladesh consortium to upgrade the 48km Dhaka Bypass Road to a dual carriageway to improve connectivity between the country's north and northwest parts and the Chattogram Port.

For over a century now, freshwater crocodiles were believed to be extinct from the country. However, in the past 50 years two such crocodiles were spotted, the most recent one being at Char Komorpur in Pabna.

Dhaka yesterday protested the "derogatory and provocative" remarks of Myanmar Religious Affairs Minister Thura Aung Ko on Rohingya refugees and asked the country to apologise.

In another milestone for India's space history, the country's heaviest satellite was successfully launched from the French Guiana early yesterday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.

In a medical first, a mother who received a uterus transplant from a dead donor gave birth to a healthy baby, researchers reported yesterday.

The High Court yesterday granted bail to barrister Mainul Hosein for six months in two cases filed against him for making “defamatory” remarks about journalist Masuda Bhatti.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the second Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner of Biman Bangladesh Airlines yesterday afternoon at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Jatiya Oikyafront leader Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday urged all, including the media, to stay alert about any move that could hamper an impartial and credible election.

In a new global index, Bangladesh has been ranked seventh among the countries most affected by extreme weather events in 20 years since 1998.

A former general who fought with Bosnian Muslim forces during the country's 1990s conflict was arrested in Sarajevo yesterday on charges of committing war crimes against Serb civilians, a prosecutor said.

Why have French rioters been battling police in Paris? Because they want to be led by Trump, according to a theory retweeted by the president himself Tuesday and subsequently debunked.