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IFIC Bank arranges painting festival for children

IFIC Bank arranges painting festival for children

FE Online Desk 2017-11-05 10:56:29

IFIC Bank Limited recently organised a painting festival for children of its officials and employees. About 150 children participated in the painting festival. Managing Director and CEO of IFIC B...

Melania Trump visits pearl boutique in Japan

Melania Trump visits pearl boutique in Japan

-- 2017-11-05 03:08:36

While her husband chased golf balls with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Japan’s premier course, US first lady Melania Trump focused on a more iridescent sort of orb: pearls. Abe’s wife, Aki...

Singer Neil Young to auction model train collection

Singer Neil Young to auction model train collection

Reuters 2017-11-04 01:35:51

Rock singer Neil Young is selling some of his most prized possessions - part of his model train collection. The Canadian folk-rock star is putting more than 230 of his vast collection of Lionel train...

Scientists find new species of Orangutan

Scientists find new species of Orangutan

-- 2017-11-03 03:24:45

Scientists who have been puzzling for years over the genetic "peculiarity" of a tiny population of orangutans in Sumatra have finally concluded that they are a new species to science. The apes in que...

Pakistan man gets prison sentence over polygamy

Pakistan man gets prison sentence over polygamy

-- 2017-11-02 12:00:00

A Pakistan court on Wednesday jailed a man for six months for marrying a second woman without his wife's permission. The court in Lahore also ordered Shahzad Saqib to pay a PKR200,000 ($1,900) fine,...

Man wakes up next to unusual guest

Man wakes up next to unusual guest

BBC 2017-11-02 01:10:32

A man in a remote tribal village in the eastern Indian state of Orissa woke up to find an unexpected guest in his courtyard - a 3m (12ft) long crocodile. Dasharath Madkami told reporters he found the...

Australia bans Uluru climbing

Australia bans Uluru climbing

BBC 2017-11-01 12:00:00

Climbing on Uluru, one of Australia's top tourist destinations, will be banned from October 2019, local authorities have confirmed.   The board of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park voted unanim...

High time to celebrate Movember in BD!

High time to celebrate Movember in BD!

FE Online Report 2017-11-01 05:25:53

Movember, or No Shave November, is the annual event celebrated on the month of November to raise awareness on men’s health. If you live in Bangladesh, you may have not heard of Movember before....

Outcry over Russian teenage model's death

Outcry over Russian teenage model's death

BBC 2017-10-31 12:00:00

A Chinese modelling agency has denied claims that a Russian teenage model it represented died from overwork. Vlada Dzyuba, 14, died in China on Friday after participating in Shanghai Fashion Week. H...

When python tries to swallow 'petrified' parrot

When python tries to swallow 'petrified' parrot

-- 2017-10-31 12:00:00

A pet parrot in Singapore has been rescued from the jaws of death, after its owners discovered a huge python coiled around their bird's cage. The 1.5m-long (5ft) snake was found on Monday in Melvin Y...

Envoys visit Beximco Industrial Park

Envoys visit Beximco Industrial Park

FE Online Desk 2017-10-31 11:12:38

Dhaka-based ambassadors and their spouses from Denmark, Switzerland, Turkey, Singapore, Australia, E.U, Brazil, Russia and Morocco visited Beximco Industrial Park at Savar, Kashimpur recently. They...

Paul Newman's Rolex sells for record $17.8m

Paul Newman's Rolex sells for record $17.8m

-- 2017-10-29 10:23:56

A Rolex watch belonging to the late Hollywood star Paul Newman has sold for a record price at auction in New York. The watch was given to him by his wife Joanne Woodward as they filmed the 1969 movie...

Japan teen 'forced to dye hair black' for school

Japan teen 'forced to dye hair black' for school

Reuters 2017-10-28 02:53:13

A Japanese teenager is suing the government of Osaka, saying her public high school repeatedly forced her to dye her naturally-brown hair black or be banned from attending school, local media reported...

US sailors rescued after five months adrift

US sailors rescued after five months adrift

BBC 2017-10-27 12:00:00

Two US yachtswomen and their two dogs have been rescued by the US Navy after spending nearly five months adrift in the Pacific Ocean, officials say. Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiaba had set off in a s...

'Ichthyosaur' fossil discovered for first time

'Ichthyosaur' fossil discovered for first time

BBC 2017-10-26 12:00:00

Scientists in India have discovered a 152 million-year-old fossil of an ichthyosaur - an extinct marine reptile - in the western state of Gujarat. This is the first time an ichthyosaur fossil has bee...

Einstein’s theory of happiness fetches $1.5m

Einstein’s theory of happiness fetches $1.5m

BBC 2017-10-25 12:00:00

Advice on two notes written by Albert Einstein describing his theory for happy living has been sold at an auction house in Jerusalem for $1.56 million. The Nobel Prize-winning German-born physicist g...

Dog mauls Australian woman to death

Dog mauls Australian woman to death

BBC 2017-10-25 01:08:23

An Australian woman was brutally mauled to death by her own dog at her residence in Australia’s Canberra. The animal was shot dead by police officers after it attacked them as they tried to adm...

Canadian man fined for singing 'too loud'

Canadian man fined for singing 'too loud'

BBC 2017-10-24 12:00:00

A Canadian man is contesting a C$149 (US$118) ticket for "screaming in a public place" after being caught singing in his car. The tune that got him grooving - and in trouble - was C+C Music Factory's...

CO2 rise ‘will affect all sea life’

CO2 rise ‘will affect all sea life’

BBC 2017-10-23 11:12:20

All sea life will be affected because carbon dioxide emissions from modern society are making the oceans more acidic, a major new report will say. The eight-year study from more than 250 scientists f...

Titanic victim's final letter sold at $166,000

Titanic victim's final letter sold at $166,000

Reuters 2017-10-22 12:00:00

A personal letter found on the body of a man killed in the sinking of the Titanic sold at auction on Saturday for 126,000 pounds ($166,000), a record price for correspondence from the doomed liner. T...

'Neruda did not die of cancer'

'Neruda did not die of cancer'

BBC 2017-10-21 12:00:00

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda did not die of prostate cancer, forensic experts have said. The Nobel Laureate was said to have died of cancer in 1973, less than two weeks after a military coup led by Gene...

Trump drawing of Empire State Building sells for $16,000

Trump drawing of Empire State Building sells for $16,000

AP 2017-10-21 12:00:00

A sketch of the Empire State Building drawn by President Donald Trump has sold at auction for $16,000. Julien’s Auctions says the 12-inch-by-9-inch black marker depiction of the iconic New York...

IBBL awards scholarship to underprivileged meritorious students  FE Online Report

IBBL awards scholarship to underprivileged meritorious students FE Online Report

-- 2017-10-20 10:02:57

Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, as a part of its ongoing programme, awarded scholarships to 1500 underprivileged meritorious students on Friday. Deputy Governor of Bangladesh Bank, SM Moniruzzaman...

Airline sued for not serving champagne

Airline sued for not serving champagne

BBC 2017-10-19 11:51:38

A Canadian man has filed a lawsuit against Sunwing Airlines for promising a champagne service and instead serving sparkling wine. Daniel Macduff booked a holiday to Cuba through Sunwing that advertis...

George Saunders wins Man Booker Prize

George Saunders wins Man Booker Prize

-- 2017-10-18 12:00:00

American author George Saunders has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize, a high-profile literary award, for his first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” - a fictional account of US President Abraham...

Man-eater Indian tigress dies after being electrocuted

Man-eater Indian tigress dies after being electrocuted

-- 2017-10-16 12:20:51

A tigress that killed four people in the west Indian state of Maharashtra died on Saturday, days after a court upheld an order to kill it. The animal was electrocuted by a fence erected by a farmer t...

Genetically optimised corn to be more nutritious, may revolutionise agriculture

Genetically optimised corn to be more nutritious, may revolutionise agriculture

-- 2017-10-16 06:35:05

Scientists at Rutgers University in New Jersey and Chinas Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences have come up with a way to improve the nutritional value of corn using smart gene-editing technology,...

Spider monkey arrives unexpectedly at Britain's Chester Zoo

Spider monkey arrives unexpectedly at Britain's Chester Zoo

Xinhua 2017-10-15 11:48:05

A tiny spider monkey has arrived at England's Chester Zoo, surprising zookeepers. They revealed Saturday how they spotted the newborn spider Monday clinging tightly to its mum. The Colombian black-h...

Couple heads to court over lotto jackpot fight

Couple heads to court over lotto jackpot fight

BBC 2017-10-14 12:00:00

All may be fair in love and war, but love and money? That's up for the courts to decide. A Canadian couple is heading to court after a winning lottery ticket drove a C$6m ($5m, £4m) wedge betwe...

Australian court accepts dead man’s unsent text as valid will

Australian court accepts dead man’s unsent text as valid will

BBC 2017-10-12 12:00:00

A court in Australia has accepted an unsent, draft text message on a dead man's mobile phone as an official will. The 55-year-old man had composed a text message addressed to his brother, in which he...