Italian police have found a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi in a Naples flat and returned it to a church that had no idea it had been stolen.

China’s role in Rohingya repatriation is turning out to be a decisive factor in resolving the crisis as the country embarked on the role of a mediator between Bangladesh and Myanmar and is likely to continue it until a solution is found, analysts have said.

China and the WHO could have acted faster to avert catastrophe during the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, a panel of independent experts concluded, as the global health body and EU moved to secure vaccines for poorer nations.

A rights organisation yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive to restrain the media from publishing and broadcasting the identity of rape and sexual assault victims.

Jute has been selling at the highest rate after independence of Bangladesh. The benefit, however, is being reaped by the middle men instead of jute growers.

The infamous blimp of outgoing US President Donald Trump dressed as a baby could soon greet visitors to the Museum on London, which on Monday announced it had acquired the inflatable effigy.

Dense fog forced the authorities to suspend ferry services on the Paturia-Daulatdia and the Shimulia-Banglabazar routes for hours, causing immense sufferings to passengers.

Failing to make rebel candidates step down from the Chattogram City Corporation elections despite repeated attempts, the port city Awami League has published an advertisement with the names of its nominated candidates.

Turkey has ordered the arrest of 238 people in an operation targeting suspects in the military allegedly linked to a Muslim preacher who Ankara says was behind a 2016 failed coup, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported yesterday.

Bangladesh’s Covid-19 tally reached 529,031 yesterday with the detection of 702 new cases.

A Chinese lawyer nominated for a top human rights award is in poor health after years in prison, his wife told AFP yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday dismissed a defamation case filed against former Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor Sayeed Khokon over making “defamatory comments” on incumbent Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has warned the Iran nuclear deal is at a “critical juncture”, as Tehran’s moves to breach it threaten efforts to get the US back on board.

Libyan envoys at UN-backed talks to end nearly a decade of war yesterday voted to pass the mechanism to choose an interim executive to govern until polls in December, the UN said.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police yesterday arrested the driver of Ajmeri Glory Paribahan that hit and ran over a couple in the capital’s Airport area on Monday morning.

A man was killed and six more were injured as a train and a motorised three-wheeler collided at an illegal level crossing in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila yesterday.

A man was arrested in Gazipur on charges of the abduction and gang rape of a woman. Meanwhile, another man was arrested in Jamalpur for raping a garments worker.

Normal life came to a near standstill due to the bone-chilling cold coupled with dense fog which also disrupted ferry services and vehicular movement.

Five people were arrested on Sunday night in connection with a case filed over the torture of two people, including a housewife after an attempt to rape her, in Noakhali’s Hatiya upazila.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) yesterday announced that the membership of 154 members of the Senate, national and provincial assemblies had been suspended for failing to submit statements of their assets and liabilities.