Bangla blogger killer held

• DHAKA: Bangladesh police said on Saturday they had arrested a militant wanted in connection with the 2015 killing of a US blogger critical of religious extremism. Deputy police commissioner Masudur Rahman said the man, identified as Arafat Rahman, 24, a member of al Qaida-inspired militant group Ansar Ullah Bangla Team, was suspected of taking part in the killing of writer Avijit Roy. Roy, a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin, was hacked to death by machete-wielding assailants in February 2015 while returning home with his wife from a Dhaka book fair. Roy's widow, Rafida Ahmed, was seriously injured. Reuters

Boy shot dead in US

• WASHINGTON: One boy was killed and five were wounded on Friday night in a shooting on a commercial street in southeast Cleveland. The police were looking for an unknown number of suspects who "fired shots and took off running". Reuters

Rohingya help

• DHAKA: Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to take help from the UN refugee agency to safely repatriate hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who had fled violence in Myanmar, Bangladesh said on Saturday. Reuters

Submarine hope

• BUENOS AIRES: Families of the 44 crew members of a missing Argentine submarine gave up hope and went home on Friday after days of waiting at the sub's Mar del Plata naval base, saddened and angered by evidence that the vessel may have exploded. Reuters

Merkel talks

• BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel set her sights on talks with the Social Democrats as a path to forming a stable government and rejected new elections after three-way coalition talks collapsed. Reuters

Aid in Sanaa

• SANAA: Humanitarian aid workers and medical supplies began to arrive in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Saturday, UN officials said.

Australia polls

• SYDNEY: Australia's Centre-Left Labour party is leading in a tight state election in coal-rich Queensland with more than half of the votes counted late on Saturday. Reuters