Pope Francis will meet young student priests yesterday on the fourth day of his visit to Panama for World Youth Day celebrations, a day after the clergy sex abuse scandal haunting his papacy returned to the spotlight.

Iran has accused France of being a destabilising force in the region after its foreign minister threatened new sanctions against Tehran over its missile programme.

Today is the death anniversary of former finance minister and Awami League leader Shah AMS Kibria, who was killed in a grisly attack 14 years ago.

The Border Guard Bangladesh has “rescued” a member of the Myanmar Army along the border in Bandarban.

The future of the magnificent but decaying PK Sen Bhaban in Chattogram is in limbo as a debate rages over its age, preventing the authorities concerned from preserving it

A Jubo League man was killed by a group of unidentified criminals in Kishoreganj on Friday night.

Two sisters suffered burns as unidentified criminals threw flammable chemicals at them while they were asleep at their home in Habiganj's Madhabpur upazila early Friday.

Police yesterday recovered the bullet-hit body of a rape accused from an orchard in Baltala village of Jhalakathi's Kathalia upazila.

India's first Bangalee president Pranab Mukherjee was yesterday chosen for the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honour, by President Ram Nath Kovind.

Law enforcers have claimed arrest of another fugitive of the Holey Artisan Bakery attack case from the northern district of Chapainawabganj. He is the last fugitive in the Holey Artisan case.

Military operations against the Islamic State group in Syria are wrapping up and the last pockets of the jihadists' self-proclaimed "caliphate" will be flushed out within a month, a top commander said.

Miners yesterday closed in on a toddler who fell in a well on January 13 in southern Spain, keeping the country on tenterhooks with a rescue operation fraught with glitches.

Floods and landslides in Indonesia have killed at least 59 people, the government said yesterday, after heavy rain pounded Sulawesi island and forced thousands to flee their homes.

Senior Nato and Russian officials made no progress yesterday in talks on saving the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, raising the spectre of a renewed arms race in Europe.

Boko Haram fighters attacked three military bases in northeast Nigeria, overrunning two where they carted away weapons, military and civilian sources told AFP yesterday.

Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday renewed his defence of the social network's business, arguing that targeting ads based on interests was different from selling people's data.

Two teenage students died and another was injured after being hit by a train when they were sitting on a rail track, with their earphones on, in Rajbari's Kalukhali upazila on Thursday.

Amid ongoing drives against yaba, drug peddlers are coming up with new techniques to carry the crazy pills.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ratings have dropped to their lowest-ever level, but he still leads in popularity before a national election expected in the next few months, an India Today poll showed yesterday.

The United Nations' human rights office said yesterday a three-member team of international experts would conduct an inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, confirming a Reuters report.