North Korea is facing a "significant, historic turning point", state media said yesterday, ahead of a highly-anticipated second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un.

An eastern Chinese province plans to ban teachers from assigning homework to be completed on cellphone apps as part of efforts to preserve students' eyesight.

A proper documentation of testimonies of “irregularities” during the 11th parliamentary election is required for upholding democratic practices, said speakers at a discussion yesterday.

Chapainawabganj administration has for the first time printed invites for the International Mother Language Day programmes in five languages, including three indigenous ones.

A Kishoreganj court yesterday sentenced two people, including a police constable, to death and five others to four-year jail terms for killing two college girls in 2008.

A ready-made garment worker has allegedly been gang-raped in Savar's Hemayetpur.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday asserted that he was filled with grief and outrage, just like the people of the country, in the wake of the terrorist attack in Kashmir which claimed the lives of 40 CRPF personnel.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday told parliament that the government was determined to bring down the interest rates on bank loans to a single digit.

The United States and European Union have announced additional funding of $60 million and €24 million ($27 million) respectively as humanitarian assistance for the Rohingya refugees.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has underscored the “will” of the richer segments of societies across the world to act against climate change as there are science, technology, innovation and finance to address the problem.

Another spell of gas crisis is likely to be due from Tuesday evening for parts of Dhaka city due to the ongoing construction of metro rail.

This year's Biswa Ijtema, the world's second largest congregation of the Muslims, has been extended by a day due to yesterday's rain and increment weather.

There can be no changes to the Irish "backstop", an arrangement to avoid a hard border between European Union member Ireland and British-ruled Northern Ireland after Brexit, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid told Reuters.

Support for Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) has hit its highest level in almost six months, a poll showed yesterday, a week after the centre-left party outlined new welfare plans aimed at winning back working class voters.

An Indian court has convicted a senior Catholic priest of raping a minor and sentenced him to 20 years in jail, the latest sexual assault scandal involving the Church in southern Kerala state.

Saudi Arabia's state arms producer and a French government-majority firm signed an agreement yesterday on a joint venture to boost the kingdom's navy, amid calls to halt weapons sales to Riyadh over it role in Yemen.

Lebanon has appointed the Arab world's first female interior minister in its new government, prising open a wider foothold for women in its overwhelmingly male political scene.

Russia gave "no new signals" Friday about saving a landmark Cold War missile control agreement, the head of NATO said, as fears grow of a new arms race in Europe.

Demonstrators are to hit French city streets again Saturday, marking three months of "yellow vest" protests as a poll now suggests that most of the country wants them to stop.

The Day of the Shining Star dawned bitterly cold in Pyongyang. But thousands of North Koreans lined up in temperatures of minus 8 degrees Celsius on Saturday to pay their respects to late leader Kim Jong Il on his birthday.