Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday called for formation of an expert committee to combat irregularities, corruption and risks in the banking sector.

Hundreds of students of Sylhet Govt Alia Madrasa yesterday vandalised an under-construction public toilet for women and people with disabilities in Chowhatta area of the city.

Thousands of Israelis marched on Saturday night for the third week running in central Tel Aviv to demand legal action against "corrupt" people in the government and their resignation.

The body of Italy's controversial king Victor Emmanuel III returned to Italy yesterday, amid a row over where the monarch who abetted dictator Benito Mussolini should be buried.

Israeli police yesterday arrested a Palestinian carrying an explosive device as he approached a military court in the occupied West Bank, security officials said.

The US House Ethics Committee announced Friday it had opened an investigation into a Democratic representative accused of sexually harassing two women, while a female congressional candidate who was accused of harassment dropped out of a race.

Australia's government avoided losing its slim majority in parliament Saturday, voting showed, as it claimed victory in a bitterly fought by-election that had threatened its hold on power.

Police recovered the body of a 15-year-old girl from her employer's flat at DOHS Baridhara in the capital yesterday.

Criminals stabbed the daughter of a lawmaker from Bagerhat at Shaltala More in the town yesterday evening.

Frustration, loneliness, drug addiction, a lack of proper vision and guidance and, at times, affluence have been found as major drivers of violent extremism among university students.

There was a 40km-long tailback on Dhaka-Tangail highway yesterday due to ongoing road expansion work, traffic bottlenecks, poor road condition, and high number of vehicles during the weekend.

She left her studies and moved to the capital to get away from her stalker.

The United States has identified one person it might impose sanctions on over the brutal crackdown in Myanmar against minority Rohingya Muslims and is examining others, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Friday.

Criminals shot dead a United Peoples Democratic Front (UPDF) member early yesterday in Dhameichara area of Bandhuk Vanga in Rangamati.

Fisheries and Livestock Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque, who was a close aide of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and an organiser of freedom fighters in 1971, died yesterday morning at a hospital in the capital.

India's Rahul Gandhi yesterday took over as president of the main opposition Congress, becoming the sixth member of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to head the party that has ruled the country for much of its independent history.

"Youthquake" was crowned Friday as Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year 2017, following a five-fold increase in usage.

Bangladesh police arrested an alleged human trafficker and intercepted two Rohingya refugees preparing to board a boat for Malaysia, officials said yesterday.

Nato allies yesterday publicly raised concern about a Russian cruise missile system that the alliance says may break a Cold War-era pact banning such weapons, in a show of support for Washington.

Muslim-majority Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday called U.S. President Donald Trump an "international bully" and a "villain" for his move to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital.