The U.N. Security Council will take up a draft resolution this week that calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and transfer power. The move follows news that the Arab League suspended a mission to monitor whether al-Assad was abiding by an agreement to end a brutal crackdown against anti-government protesters. Arab League [...]

A tiny revolutionary fold-up car designed in Spain’s Basque country as the answer to urban stress and pollution was unveiled Tuesday before hitting European cities in 2013. The “Hiriko,” the Basque word for “urban,” is an electric two-seater with no doors whose motor is located in the wheels and which folds up like a child’s [...]

Defending champion Novak Djokovic battled past Rafael Nadal in an epic, five-set Australian Open final which clocked in at 5hr 53min—the longest title match in grand slam history—early Monday. Djokovic fought back from losing the first set to take a 2-1 lead, but he was then taken to a gripping fifth set by resurgent Nadal [...]

Following a continuous slide in the general index, market regulators Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has called a meeting with capital market stakeholders on Tuesday. An emergency meeting would take place at 11:30am, SEC spokesperson Saifur Rahman told bdnews24.com on Monday. He said representatives of the two capital markets and stakeholders — CDBL, Merchant Bankers’ [...]

US Ambassador Dan W Mozena on Monday said America will invest nearly one billion dollars over the next five years to help Bangladesh improve the lives of its citizens, most especially the children. “America’s partnership with Bangladesh has so many facets: Health of pregnant women and mothers of children; health of newborns and older children; [...]

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday underscored the need for concerted action by SAARC member countries to cope with the problems caused due to world economic crisis as well as the own problems of climate change and environmental degradation. She expressed the view while addressing the inaugural session of the Fifth Meeting of SAARC Finance Ministers [...]

The World Bank (WB) is unlikely to provide funds for construction of the Padma multipurpose bridge as it has decided not to extend the time of credit agreement. As per the agreement between the government and the WB, the date of credit effectiveness ended on Friday. Economic Relations Division (ERD) sources said the government asked [...]

Victoria Azarenka outclassed Maria Sharapova in the Australian Open final to win her maiden Grand Slam title and become the new world number one. The 22-year-old Belarusian marked her first major final with a nerveless display, coming through 6-3 6-0 in an hour and 22 minutes on Rod Laver Arena. Azarenka Sharapova 0 Aces 1 [...]

Deaths mounted in Syria on Friday as world powers in the U.N.Security Council weighed a draft resolution calling on the country’s president to step down. Soldiers and security forces killed 60 people on Friday, said the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an opposition activist group. The group said the dead included three children, three women [...]

Iran is due to open talks with UN nuclear inspectors on Sunday in an attempt to allay their suspicions of a covert Iranian weapons programme, the first such discussions in more than three years. The three days of meetings in Tehran between Iranian nuclear officials and a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) [...]