Israel and Jordan have agreed on moves aimed at reducing tensions surrounding a prominent holy site in Jerusalem.

Israeli forces have been using "disproportionate violence" against Palestinian children as they killed at least ten this month during the ongoing unrest that engulfs Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.

Saudi Arabia risks running out of financial assets in less than five years amid a drop in oil prices, the International Monetary Fund has warned.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says the fine for illegal parking and over speeding will be raised.

The death toll from last month's hajj stampede has topped 2,100, according to tallies given by foreign officials, making it by far the deadliest disaster in the pilgrimage's history.

A mobile court yesterday jailed two drug addicts for six months each for creating disturbance in a Puja Mandhop area under Dhunat

Los Angeles prosecutors say they will not press charges against a Saudi prince accused of sexual assault. Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 28,

UN chief Ban Ki-moon yesterday warned Israelis and Palestinians they were at a "dangerous abyss" and must act quickly to calm nearly three weeks of unrest before it spirals further out of control.

Police recover huge bullets, 11 bullet chargers and 4 magazines from Udoypur village of Rajbari Sadar upazila.

The crush and stampede that struck the hajj last month in Saudi Arabia killed at least 2,177 pilgrims, a new Associated Press tally showed on Monday.

A woman and her 15-month-old daughter are burnt alive allegedly by her elder daughter’s husband for dowry in Jhenaidah.

Rebels battling the Syrian army and its allies south of Aleppo say they have received new supplies of US-made anti-tank missiles from states that oppose President Bashar al-Assad since a major government offensive began there on Friday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday that a proposed international presence at the Jerusalem holy site at the center of escalating Israeli, Palestinian tension and violence is not needed.

State Minister for Telecommunication Tarana Halimtoday gives two months to the mobile phone operators for improving their service quality and bringingdown call drops to a minimum level.

40 militants with the so-called Islamic State are killed in air strikes in Syria, a British-based monitoring group reports.

In the latest unrest, an Israeli soldier is killed in a shooting at a bus station in the southern city of Beersheba, the first such attack after a day in which violence seemed to somewhat ebb.

A schoolgirl was stabbed by stalkers in Kishreganj Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

The United States and Europe begin preparing to lift the trade sanctions that have hobbled the Iranian economy as a historic nuclear deal came into effect.

At least eight people were injured in a clash between the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Pahari Chhatra Parishad (PCP) at

A schoolgirl, abducted from Parla village in Sadar upazila two days ago, was rescued from a house at the village on Friday night. Munsi