Scientists said yesterday they are closing in on a new game-changing vaccine for tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease that claimed some 1.5 million lives last year.

A British MP who headed a parliamentary committee probing drug policies is facing a six-month suspension after a lengthy inquiry into claims he offered to pay for cocaine.

The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail for eight weeks to a boy aged about 12 in a human trafficking case filed in Cox’s Bazar.

Some 2,000 websites in Georgia, including those of the president, courts, and media came under a massive cyber attack yesterday, officials and media said.

Bangladesh Bank yesterday asked all banks to freeze the accounts of Aziz Mohammad Bhai for 30 days.

The High Court yesterday ordered the government not to harass or arrest Nobel Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus until November 7 in three cases filed in connection with the sacking of three employees of Grameen Communications.

Hired by yaba smugglers, some Rohingyas in the guise of fishermen are bringing in the crazy pills and charging Tk 1 for each tablet.

The European Union yesterday agreed a three-month flexible delay to Britain’s departure from the bloc as Prime Minister Boris Johnson pushes for an election after opponents forced him to request an extension he had vowed never to ask for.

Confusion has arisen over the health of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia as the hospital authorities claim she is stable while her party and relatives say her life is at stake as her health deteriorated.

A 67-year-old woman has given birth in China, a hospital said yesterday, with the parents claiming they are the country’s oldest couple to conceive a baby naturally.

Prof Ajoy Roy, father of slain writer-blogger Avijit Roy, yesterday told a court that he would not keep appearing for hearings of his son’s murder case.

The video starts with one Hasan beating an elderly man -- whose hands and legs are tied and who is visibily unconscious -- with a wooden stick. Shouts can be heard off camera, which then pans to the victim’s around 12-year-old daughter, who tries to come to her father’s aid. “Younger women than you have been raped,” Hasan says to her. At this, she backs away.

Controversial former lawmaker Joynal Abedin Hazari was made advisory council member of the ruling Awami League yesterday.

A mobile court yesterday fined an IT company Tk 10.5 lakh for illegal activities relating to training and recruiting Bangladeshi jobseekers for Japan.

Dhaka University teachers yesterday evening had heated arguments at the academic council meeting held over the “illegal enrolment” of 35 Chhatra League leaders.

Cambodia deployed soldiers, police and divers to scour an island popular with backpackers after a British tourist went missing there four days ago, an official told AFP yesterday.

The High Court has fixed November 3 to deliver its verdict on the rule issued over the formation of a commission to look into the irregularities and corruption took place in the banking sector in the last two decades.

Dread mounted across Vietnam yesterday as relatives of migrants feared to be among 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain revealed new heart-wrenching details of their last contact with their loved ones.

Thousands of separatists clashed with police in central Barcelona Saturday just hours after some 350,000 demonstrators held a peaceful march in the latest mass protest over the jailing of nine separatist leaders.

Australia’s most notorious serial killer Ivan Milat, whose murder of seven young backpackers in the 1990s terrified the country, has died in hospital, officials said yesterday.