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Dhaka, July 8 : Bangladesh will offer Chittagong and Mongla ports for use to its South Asian neighbours, developing them as regional trade hubs, a minister has said.

“There is no reason why cotton from Pakistan could not be directly brought or trucks laden with goods from Nepal could not directly be imported to Bangladesh or why north east Indian states will remain landlocked when we have the Chittagong port,” Commerce Minister, Col. (retd.) Faruk Khan said Tuesday.

Somalia, July 08: The number of people displaced by the escalating conflict in Mogadishu has reached 204,000, making it the biggest exodus from the troubled Somali capital since the Ethiopian intervention in 2007, the UN refugee agency has said. The eight-week-long offensive led by the Al-Shabab and Hisb-ul-Islam militia against government forces “is having a devastating impact on the city s population, causing enormous suffering and massive displacement”, Ron Redmond, spokesman of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told a news briefing in Geneva Tuesday.

Melbourne, July 08: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd should not be pressuring Pope Benedict XVI to make Australian nun Mary MacKillop a saint, a prominent Jesuit priest said Wednesday.

Frank Brennan joined other leading Catholics in criticising Rudd for arranging a meeting Wednesday with the pope at which Rudd said he would encourage the pontiff to have MacKillop canonised. “I think it would not be appropriate for him to attempt to lobby,” Father Brennan told the national broadcaster ABC.

New York, July 08: The United Nations top humanitarian relief official has sought more international aid for the internationally displaced persons (IDPs) in Pakistan resulting due to military operation against the Taliban in the Swat Valley and adjoining areas of the country.

“While it is not the largest crisis in the world, needs in Pakistan are the most immediate of any crisis in the world. The upcoming monsoon season makes meeting those needs an even more urgent priority,” said John Holms, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.

Washington, July 08: A military strike to thwart Iran’s nuclear weapons capability remains on the table but could have grave and unpredictable consequences, the top US military officer said Tuesday.

“I worry a great deal about the response of a country that gets struck,” said Adm Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “It is a really important place to not go, if we cannot go there in any way, shape or form.”

Rome, July 08: Leaders of the world’s wealthiest and most industrialised countries are being briefed about emergency evacuation plans by Italian authorities as the earthquake-hit town of L’Aquila plays host to G8 and G5 leaders during the three-day (July 8-10) summit here.

World leaders, including Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, arriving here are being briefed on evacuation plans, with 12 helicopters on standby to move them to Rome, in case of an emergency, from the mountain town over 100 km away.

Columbia, July 08: The South Carolina serial killer who terrorized a small community was well-known to authorities as a bully, so intimidating that a scared elderly man once refused to testify against him and extortion charges were thrown out.

The career criminal, Patrick Burris, had repeated run-ins with police for stealing and writing bad checks, and authorities said Tuesday they weren’t surprised his crimes escalated. They said Burris, paroled in April after serving eight years in a North Carolina prison, should have never been released.

Washington, July 08: A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cyber crime, The Associated Press has learned.

Washington, July 08: Senate Democratic leaders rebelled Tuesday against a proposed tax on health insurance benefits, raising fresh doubts about the prospects for bipartisan legislation on President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.

The discontent surfaced as the White House and Vice President Joe Biden readied a triumphant announcement for Wednesday that the nation’s hospitals had agreed to give up $155 billion in future Medicare and Medicaid payments to help defray the cost of legislation Obama wants.

Washington, July 08: A military strike to thwart Iran’s nuclear weapons capability remains on the table but could have grave and unpredictable consequences, the top U.S. military officer said Tuesday.

“I worry a great deal about the response of a country that gets struck,” said Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “It is a really important place to not go, if we can not go there in any way, shape or form.”

Alaska, July 08: Gov. Sarah Palin returned to the spotlight Tuesday with an appearance in a remote Arctic village where she stood by her perplexing decision to resign just as she tries to elevate her national profile ahead of a possible 2012 presidential run.