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China to turn Panda poo into tissue paper

China to turn Panda poo into tissue paper

-- 2017-12-20 04:51:45

China's giant pandas are a top tourist draw, a tool for soft diplomacy - and now, a source of tissue paper. The national panda reserve in Sichuan province has signed a deal with a paper company to re...

Woman dies from pet dogs’ bite

Woman dies from pet dogs’ bite

-- 2017-12-20 02:15:34

Police in rural Virginia, southeastern US state, have released disturbing details about a woman who they say was brutally mauled to death by her two dogs while taking them for a walk last week. Four...

Artist secures bail on daughter’s birthday

Artist secures bail on daughter’s birthday

BBC 2017-12-19 12:04:53

A Chinese artist who was arrested after posting videos about Beijing's controversial mass evictions has been released on bail, according to friends. Hua Yong had filmed a widely-shared farewell video...

258m international migrants today: UN

258m international migrants today: UN

-- 2017-12-19 12:00:00

An estimated 258 million people have left their birth countries and are now living in other nations — an increase of 49 per cent since 2000. A report on international migration released on Mond...

65 journalists killed worldwide in 2017: RSF

65 journalists killed worldwide in 2017: RSF

FE Online Desk 2017-12-19 12:00:00

Sixty-five journalists workers were killed around the world in 2017, according to the Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF). The RSF revealed the information in its annual report published on Tues...

Thousands gather in China to watch criminals get executed

Thousands gather in China to watch criminals get executed

-- 2017-12-19 08:20:44

Thousands of people crowded to a sports stadium in southern China to watch 10 people being sentenced to death – moments before they were taken away and executed. The extraordinar...

Egypt reopens ancient library in Sinai

Egypt reopens ancient library in Sinai

-- 2017-12-18 06:54:44

Egypt has reopened an ancient library recently that's filled with a treasure trove of centuries-old religious and historical manuscripts at St Catherine Monastery in South Sinai. The ceremony at the...

Japan’s baby panda makes debut appearance

Japan’s baby panda makes debut appearance

-- 2017-12-18 01:22:55

A baby panda has made a special appearance before Tokyo's governor, a group of local schoolchildren and the media one day ahead of its official public debut. The six-month-old female giant panda, Xi...

Mammoth skeleton sells for €548,000

Mammoth skeleton sells for €548,000

BBC 2017-12-17 12:00:00

An ancient skeleton of a woolly mammoth has sold for €548,000 ($640,000) at auction in the French city of Lyon. The skeleton, which exceeded its estimated value, is thought to be the largest of...

Non-smokers more attractive than smokers: Study

Non-smokers more attractive than smokers: Study

-- 2017-12-17 12:00:00

Smokers  look  less attractive than non smokers, a new study has found. This theory was put to on the test by researchers at Bristol University. A group of 500 people were asked to pick the...

Court jails man for Genghis portrait stamping

Court jails man for Genghis portrait stamping

BBC 2017-12-16 04:46:15

A Chinese man has been jailed for a year for stamping on a portrait of Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, after being found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred. The court in China's Inner Mongolia region was to...

Hijab-wearing law graduate denied call to bar

Hijab-wearing law graduate denied call to bar

BBC 2017-12-16 02:52:31

A Nigerian law graduate has been denied her call to the bar after insisting on wearing a hijab during the ceremony. Amasa Firdaus was refused entry into the hall at the law school at the University o...

Bangladeshi photographers among top 10 Wikipedia competition

Bangladeshi photographers among top 10 Wikipedia competition

FE Online Desk  2017-12-15 08:20:16

Two photos of Bangladeshi photographers have secured top ten places in Wikipedia’s ‘Wiki Loves Monuments’ competition. The two photos are taken from Baitul Mukarram National Mosque...

Egypt discovers 3,500-year-old burial sites

Egypt discovers 3,500-year-old burial sites

-- 2017-12-15 02:48:56

Archeologists have uncovered four intact burial sites for children dating back to the 18th Pharaonic Dynasty, some 3,500 years ago, in Upper Egypt's Aswan province, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquitie...

Another human foot washes up on Canadian shore

Another human foot washes up on Canadian shore

-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00

A British Columbia man made an unusual discovery while walking his dog along the coastline- the remains of a human foot, still inside of a shoe. It's the latest in more than a dozen such grim discove...

Dying businessman throws 'end of life' party

Dying businessman throws 'end of life' party

BBC 2017-12-13 03:04:48

A Japanese businessman diagnosed with terminal cancer has thrown a huge party to say thank you and goodbye. Satoru Anzaki invited about 1,000 guests including friends, former school mates, business p...

NBL chairman's death anniv observed

NBL chairman's death anniv observed

FE Online Desk 2017-12-12 12:00:00

A special prayer was offered Monday at ZH Sikder University of Science & Technology ground at Kartikpur in the district of Shariatpur on the occasion of the death anniversary of Mokfar Uddin Sikde...

Australian town plans 150th anniversary in wrong year

Australian town plans 150th anniversary in wrong year

BBC 2017-12-12 03:18:48

Plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of an Australian town have hit a hurdle, after local authorities found they were three years too late. The town of Charleville, in Queensland, had begun plann...

UK gets highest mountain

UK gets highest mountain

BBC 2017-12-11 12:00:00

Britain has a new tallest mountain. Mt Hope, which is sited in the part of the Antarctic claimed by the UK, was recently re-measured and found to tower above the previous title holder, Mt Jackson, by...

Leopard strays into Mumbai pre-school

Leopard strays into Mumbai pre-school

-- 2017-12-11 12:00:00

Residents of Sher-e-Punjab Colony in Mumbai’s Andheri (East) had an unexpected visitor on Sunday. A female sub-adult leopard moved around, climbed trees – creating panic – and final...

How’s about personal relationship in Asia?

How’s about personal relationship in Asia?

-- 2017-12-11 12:00:00

2017 Prudential Relationship Index (PRI) reveals continued high levels of fulfilment in personal relationships across Asia. In order to gain a deeper understanding of personal relationships in the re...

Over 1.1m candidates sit China's civil servant exam

Over 1.1m candidates sit China's civil servant exam

-- 2017-12-10 09:18:27

More than 1.1 million people took the National Public Servant Exam in China Sunday, a leap from last year's 984,000, marking the second time the number has hit the one million mark. Over 28,000 posit...

Archaeologists discover 3,500-year old tomb in Egypt

Archaeologists discover 3,500-year old tomb in Egypt

-- 2017-12-09 12:00:00

Egypt minister on Saturday announced the discovery of two small ancient tombs in the southern city Luxor dating back some 3,500 years and hoped it will help the country’s efforts to revive its a...

Man ‘charged’ over rocket launcher snowman display

Man ‘charged’ over rocket launcher snowman display

BBC 2017-12-09 02:38:51

A 29-year-old man has been charged after a snowman holding a rocket launcher was painted on the window of a republican support group's office in Londonderry. The image included the message: "Wishing...

Italian man poisons 'impure' family members

Italian man poisons 'impure' family members

-- 2017-12-08 12:00:00

Italian police have arrested a man who allegedly used a rat poison ingredient to kill members of his family because they were "impure". Mattia Del Zotto, 27, is accused of sprinkling the toxic chemic...

Memoir by Japanese WW2 emperor sold in auction

Memoir by Japanese WW2 emperor sold in auction

BBC 2017-12-07 11:18:19

A memoir by former Japanese Emperor Hirohito about how his country entered World War Two has fetched $220,000 (£164,000) at an auction in New York. Also known as the Imperial Monologue, it chr...

China shuts down 'teaching women obedience' school

China shuts down 'teaching women obedience' school

BBC 2017-12-06 12:00:00

Chinese authorities have shut down an institute that was teaching women to be obedient and subordinate to men. The education bureau said the institute, which claimed it taught "traditional virtues",...

Taiwan rainbow ‘lasts record-breaking 9 hours’

Taiwan rainbow ‘lasts record-breaking 9 hours’

-- 2017-12-05 12:48:21

A rainbow may be a wondrous sight but for most people it’s also a fairly fleeting one. But last week, professors and students of the Chinese Culture University in Taipei’s mountains were...

Sierra Leone’s peace diamond fetches $6.5m

Sierra Leone’s peace diamond fetches $6.5m

BBC 2017-12-05 12:00:00

A giant 709-carat diamond unearthed in Sierra Leone has sold at auction in New York for $6.5m (£4.8m). Laurence Graff, chairman of Graff Diamonds, won the precious stone - nicknamed the "peace...

Hospital fires doctors for declaring newborn dead

Hospital fires doctors for declaring newborn dead

-- 2017-12-04 11:32:00

A hospital in the Indian capital Delhi has fired two doctors for mistakenly declaring a newborn dead. The doctors at the privately run Max Hospital had pronounced the baby dead hours after his twin w...