The European Union imposed sanctions on seven senior military officials from Myanmar yesterday, including the general in charge of an operation accused of driving nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh.

Two children decided the result of their custody battle in an emotionally charged proceeding at the High Court yesterday.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix has highly appreciated Bangladeshi soldiers for their contribution to peacekeeping and serving in some of the most challenging conditions.

The body of a local Awami League leader was recovered from a wetland near his house yesterday morning, three days after his disappearance from Sunamganj district.

Police yesterday arrested an alleged rapist at a launch when he was attempting to flee to Dhaka from Patuakhali.

In a reshuffle in the administration, Foyez Ahmed, secretary to the medical education and family welfare division, has been made secretary to the public administration ministry.

Unidentified criminals shot and stabbed two people to death at Tebaria Bazar in Pabna's Santhia upazila yesterday evening.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday declared victory in a tightly-contested presidential election, extending his 15-year grip on power in the face of a revitalised opposition.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Kazi Reazul Hoque yesterday reiterated demands for proper investigation into the killing of Teknaf's ward councillor Akramul Haque, after visiting the councillor's residence at Kaubkhali, Teknaf upazila, at around 2:30pm, our Cox's Bazar correspondent reports.

Police recovered two bullet-hit bodies from Monirampur upazila in the district early yesterday.

The BNP yesterday announced its candidates for mayoral posts in the upcoming elections to Rajshahi and Barisal city corporations to be held on July 30.

Bangladeshi recruiting agencies have welcomed the Malaysian government's move to suspend the 10 companies tasked with hiring Bangladeshi workers.

Chittagong Metropolitan Police detained around 200 alleged leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Chhatra Shibir in Kotwali area of the port city last night.

An explosion inside a dentist's chamber left the doctor and a patient burnt in the capital's Adabor yesterday.

At least five people were killed and six others injured in a nighttime Boko Haram raid and suicide attack on a village in northeastern Nigeria, residents told AFP yesterday.

Netflix sacked its chief spokesman Jonathan Friedland, he revealed on Friday, after he used the N-word twice in the space of a few days during meetings with staff.

A stretch of almost 16 kilometres of Gobindaganj-Palashbari road is accident-prone where the district police have set up several signboards bearing words of warning in vain.

Hundreds of students of Mathbari Union High School in Jhalakathi are under the threat of losing their school to the erosion of the Bishkhali river.

In the middle of the night it becomes a form of psychological torture, the insidious "plink..." (wait-for-it) "plink..." (wait-for-it) "plink..." of drops falling, one-by-one, into water.

Women will hit the roads in Saudi Arabia today with the lifting of the world's last ban on female drivers, long seen as an emblem of women's repression in the conservative kingdom.