In quashing the idea of married priests in the Amazon, Pope Francis has appeased traditionalists while disappointing progressives who had hoped for a historic turning point in the Catholic church.

The Trump administration is deploying highly trained officers to boost arrests of unauthorized immigrants in a number of cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, the latest move in a battle against localities that adopt “sanctuary” policies to protect them from deportation.

Google is in discussions on deals to pay media organizations for content, a move aimed at blunting criticism that it unfairly profits from copyrighted news, according to people familiar with the talks.

Police yesterday recovered a note which they suspect was written by the husband of the woman who was murdered, along with her two children, in the capital’s Dakshinkhan area.

Convicted war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday afternoon.

A pharmacist was found hanging from a window bar in a director’s room of a private hospital in the capital’s Matuail area yesterday.

Five construction workers were killed and seven others injured as a bus hit a human haulier in Gopalganj’s Kashiani upazila yesterday morning.

In a broadcast to the nation on the occasion of the National Martyrs’ Day, Bangabandhu says that the language movement was not only a movement centred around the language issue, it was also a movement aimed at the establishment of the rights of the people of Bangladesh. It was the movement for liberation, he adds.

More often than not, we see only the change happening around us in the city. But sometimes, there are silent revolutions happening outside our own hub by people away from the limelight of capital.

Police in Germany arrested twelve men, including one of its own officers, in a nationwide probe into an extreme-right group suspected of planning attacks on politicians, asylum-seekers and Muslims, state interior ministry sources and prosecutors said yesterday.

Police last night recovered the bodies of a woman and her two children from their flat in a five-storey building in the capital’s Dakshinkhan area.

At least five villagers were killed in an attack in central Mali overnight, local officials said yesterday, in an apparent bout of ethnic violence in the war-torn state.

Nearly 50 Rohingyas have been detained at sea by Myanmar’s navy, a local official said yesterday, the latest from the persecuted minority to be caught trying to flee camps in Bangladesh and Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state.

Ethiopian officials yesterday said that negotiations this week in Washington failed to resolve a long-running dispute with Egypt over a massive dam on the Nile.

Yemen’s Huthi rebels yesterday said they have dropped a threat to impose a tax on aid, in a significant step towards resolving a crisis that has jeopardised the world’s biggest humanitarian operation.

France’s Cesar Academy, which awards its version of the Oscars, was in crisis Friday after its entire board resigned, overwhelmed by a series of rows that have infuriated both women’s activists and industry insiders.

Austria is blocking attempts by other EU members to revive a Mediterranean naval operation to enforce an arms embargo on war-torn Libya, diplomats said yesterday.

Three Bangladeshis are running a human trafficking racket in Kuwait and one of them have been arrested, English-language daily Arab Times reported on Wednesday.

A Russian soldier has pulled out all the stops to propose to his girlfriend, with his fellow officers manoeuvring 16 tanks to surround the couple in a heart shape.

The US Senate voted Thursday to rein in President Donald Trump from attacking Iran, sharply rebuking his foreign policy despite a week earlier acquitting him in his impeachment trial.