Hailed as a chance for the Catholic Church to reconnect with today's young, a month-long meeting at the Vatican has ended with a whimper as bishops from across continents fail to see eye to eye.

Thousands of scientists, activists and disease survivors Saturday wrap up a global conference on lung health dominated by the announcement of several breakthroughs in the battle against tuberculosis.

President Hassan Rouhani yesterday said that the divisions between the US and Europe over renewed sanctions on Iran were a "rare historical victory" for the Islamic republic.

A Jewish immigrant to Bolivia who made a fortune mining tin saved 10 times as many lives during the Holocaust than the star of Oscar-winning Hollywood blockbuster "Schindler's List," a journalist and writer told AFP.

India's Meghalaya state Chief Minister Conrad Sangma yesterday welcomed the decision to open the Chittagong port to facilitate trade with India's Northeastern states, saying it will cut transportation cost and expose their goods to international markets.

Sohel Rana Biswas, the jailer who has recently been arrested with over Tk 44 lakh, fixed deposit receipts (FDRs) and Phensedyl, was produced before a Kishoreganj court yesterday evening.

The government should dissolve parliament before the announcement of schedule for the 11th national election to ensure a level playing field, speakers at a roundtable said yesterday.

Toll collection at the First Bangladesh-China Friendship (Buriganga 1) Bridge remained suspended yesterday, a day after a clash over toll hike left a person dead and scores of others injured.

Many private banks and influential individuals are illegally employing armed guards in violation of the firearms law.

Vandals broke the windows, doors and looted office equipment of a building of Gonoshasthaya Kendra in Savar yesterday, amid cases being filed against its founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury.

Police yesterday arrested a jailer with over Tk 44 lakh, fixed deposit receipts (FDRs) and Phensedyl from a train heading for Mymensingh in Kishoreganj's Bhairab.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in what police claimed was a tripartite clash involving the law enforcers and two gangs of yaba dealers at Teknaf early yesterday.

Indian authorities have frozen the bank accounts of Amnesty International after a raid on its country office, the human rights watchdog said yesterday, accusing the government of treating rights groups "like criminal enterprises".

Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, who had retired from BNP politics as its vice-chairman in 2015, yesterday joined Bikalpadhara Bangladesh ahead of the 11th parliamentary election.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan yesterday urged Saudi Arabia to disclose who ordered the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, as well as the location of his body, heightening international pressure on the kingdom to come clean on the case.

Ten people, including two women and two children, were killed and 15 others injured when a bus collided head-on with a goods-laden truck at Dashmile Bazar in Panchagarh Sadar upazila yesterday evening.

Six people died in floods in southern Russia which also damaged regional infrastructure including an oil pipeline, authorities said yesterday, as emergency workers were struggling to provide food and water to the victims.

Irish voters were deciding Friday whether to repeal a ban on blasphemy -- the latest potential reform distancing the once-devout nation from its Catholic past.

Japan's government yesterday rejected calls from a UN rights expert to halt the return of women and children to areas affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster over radiation fears.

A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Greece yesterday and was felt strongly in the tourist hotspot island of Zante, monitoring agencies said.