UNHCR special envoy and US film star Angelina Jolie has been visiting Rohingya refugee camps in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar.

Film star Angelina Jolie is scheduled to meet Rohingya women, who were victims of sexual violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State during a brutal military operation in August 2017, in Cox's Bazar Rohingya camps tomorrow.

China's corruption watchdog on Saturday said it had disciplined more than 80 officials linked to a vaccine scandal last year that inflamed public fears over the safety of domestically produced drugs.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir yesterday pledged to bolster rural development, as he seeks to face down anti-government demonstrations that have rocked cities and villages.

A Rodrigo Duterte impersonator sparked frenzy and confusion during mass yesterday when he walked into a Hong Kong church popular with the city's Filipino community.

Nayib Bukele is favorite to win when voters head to the polls in El Salvador yesterday to elect a new president they hope will lead them away from gang violence and widespread poverty.

They are more than 2,000 years old but remain in "good condition": Egypt on Saturday unveiled over 40 mummies dating back to the Ptolemaic era at a burial site in the centre of the country.

One of Australia's busiest international airports was locked down after a man brandished a knife and made a bomb threat at a food court, prompting travellers to flee in panic, officials said Sunday.

The US scrapping of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia could launch a new arms race, but will also allow the United States to update its nuclear arsenal, a publicly stated goal for the past year.

At least nine people were killed and 19 injured in separate road accidents across the country yesterday.

A German World War I hand grenade was found among a shipment of French potatoes imported for a Hong Kong crisp factory, police said.

President Donald Trump yesterday reiterated that a US military intervention in Venezuela was "an option," as international pressure ramps up on embattled head of state Nicolas Maduro to step down.

Yaba traders are adopting new techniques every day to bring the pills to the capital. They are now using mostly homeless children, aged between 10 and 15 years, as drug mules. They pay the children to take the risks.

Vehicles registered outside Dhaka city will not be allowed to enlist with any ride-sharing company operating in the city. Besides, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has been directed to propose the highest ceiling for the number of vehicles to be enlisted with any particular ride-hailing company.

A 10-year-old girl was strangled to death as she resisted a rape attempt by her tutor at Kaptali upazila in Rangamati on Saturday.

Once the much-hyped metro rail starts operation between Uttara north and Agargaon later this year, it will not bring a significant change in Dhaka city's transport service unless it is integrated with conventional transport modes, experts said.

The first phase of Upazila Parishad election will be held on March 10.

Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday in parliament said the answer scripts of SSC examinees, who were given the wrong question papers on the first day of the examinations, will be evaluated differently but did not specify how.

Rab arrested two suspected fraudsters who swindled about 500 government officials out of large sums of money masquerading as anti-corruption officials about to sue them.

Jatiya Party chief and Leader of the Opposition in parliament HM Ershad is likely to return home tomorrow.