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BBC 2017-10-09 12:00:00
An animal keeper at a national park in southern India has been attacked and killed by two rare young white tigers, officials say. The keeper, 40, was mauled to death as he attempted to direct the tig...
BBC 2017-10-07 12:00:00
Wildlife officials in India have caught a leopard nearly 36 hours after it was first spotted in a car factory. Rescuers tranquilised the animal after a massive search operation at Maruti Suzuki's man...
BBC 2017-10-05 11:57:09
A mother in the US state of Michigan has been sentenced to seven days in jail after she refused a judge's order to have her son vaccinated. Rebecca Bredow would not let her nine-year-old be immunised...
BBC 2017-10-04 11:57:28
A 1,000-year-old bowl from China's Song Dynasty has sold at auction in Hong Kong for almost US$38m (£28m) - a record for Chinese porcelain. Sotheby's, the auction house, said the rare Ru-ware b...
FE Online Desk 2017-10-04 04:20:05
Demi Lovato, a US singer, songwriter, and actress, has thanked her Bangladeshi fans, as her album "Tell Me You Love Me" has reached Number 1 on iTunes in 40 countries, including Bangladesh. She pos...
-- 2017-10-03 04:10:47
A Burmese beauty queen has claimed she was stripped of her pageant title over a video she made on the ongoing violence in Rakhine state of Myanmar. Shwe Eain Si had posted the clip online last week,...
BBC 2017-10-02 12:16:10
An Australian teenager has died after being crushed by weightlifting equipment at a gym. Ben Shaw, 15, was attempting to bench press almost 100kg (220 lb) when the accident happened in Brisbane on Tu...
-- 2017-10-01 12:49:04
A 29-year-old bank teller stole more than $185,000 from a homeless customer who tried to deposit a garbage bag full of cash at a Wells Fargo branch in Georgetown, according to court fi...
-- 2017-10-01 12:00:00
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock and UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake arrive here tomorrow on a three-day visit to...
-- 2017-10-01 03:48:30
An Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles was forced to make a sudden diversion when it lost part of an engine over the Atlantic. One of the four engines on the Airbus A380 fligh...
FE Online Desk 2017-10-01 03:25:37
A two-day conference on financial inclusion begins at Ha Noi, Vietnam October 3 aiming to enhance the capacity of policy makers in ADB’s DMCs by increasing their knowledge about financial inclus...
-- 2017-10-01 01:16:01
NCC Bank arranged '69th Foundation Training Course' for its officers at NCC Bank Training Institute recently. Chairman of the Bank Md. Nurun Newaz Salim inaugurated the training course as the...
Reuters 2017-09-30 12:00:00
An Iowa mother who left her four young children alone to go on an 11-day European trip was jailed on child endangerment charges, authorities said on Friday. Erin Lee Macke, 30, traveled from Johnston...
BBC 2017-09-29 01:06:22
Scientists have detected hundreds of Japanese marine species on US coasts, swept across the Pacific by the deadly 2011 tsunami. Mussels, starfish and dozens of other creatures great and small travell...
BBC 2017-09-28 10:41:56
A German court will decide on Thursday whether the owner of a donkey which tried to snack on a sports car should pay for the damage. On 15 September last year, Markus Zahn parked his bright orange Mc...
-- 2017-09-27 12:33:18
Moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorm swept over different parts of the capital on Wednesday morning brought a little relief to the city dwellers who were suffering from scorching heat in the...
BBC 2017-09-26 10:38:12
Despite signs that numbers of giant pandas are rising, suitable habitat has shrunk, according to satellite data. The forests where the panda lives are in worse shape than in 1988, when it was first l...
-- 2017-09-25 12:00:00
The researchers have said by proving from the new evidence that the ancient Egyptians constructed the Great Pyramid at Giza by transporting 170,000 tons of limestone in boats, reports Fox News.  ...
-- 2017-09-25 06:05:51
Indonesian scientists have found the world's smallest squirrel in Borneo rain forest in the central parts of the country, reports xinhuanet.com. The Bormean pigmy squirrel or exilisciurus exi...
BBC 2017-09-24 12:00:00
A 'lost' portrait by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens has been rediscovered after almost 400 years. The 17th century Flemish artist's "head study" of the Duke of Buckingham was identified by...
Reuters 2017-09-24 12:00:00
Saudi Arabia is celebrating the 87th anniversary of its foundation this weekend with a big programme of concerts and performances, including a pageant operetta on Saturday evening which allowed women...
-- 2017-09-22 12:00:00
Liliane Bettencourt, the heiress to cosmetics firm L'Oreal, has died aged 94, her family confirmed on Thursday. A statement said she had died on Wednesday at home "peacefully" overnight. &nb...
-- 2017-09-21 03:44:52
Sri Lankan authorities have admitted in a Dutch documentary that thousands of babies born there were fraudulently sold for adoption abroad in the 1980s. Up to 11,000 children may have been so...
-- 2017-09-19 03:54:40
Mark Beaumont, a British cyclist, has smashed the Guinness World Record for the fastest circumnavigation of the planet on a bicycle, riding 18,000 miles (29,000km) in under 80 days. Beaumont...
FE Online Desk 2017-09-18 12:28:09
The employees of BRAC Bank Limited stood beside thousands of flood affected people across the country. The employees of the bank donated one day’s salary that generated a fund of Tk. 4.3 mi...
BBC 2017-09-18 12:00:00
A 21-year-old has died after reportedly being struck by a mechanical object while walking through a haunted house attraction in Hong Kong. The man, identified only by his surname Cheung, was...
-- 2017-09-17 12:00:00
A koala has been released into the wild in Australia after recovering from a 16km (10-mile) car journey clinging to the axle of a four-wheel drive. The female had crawled into the wheel arch...
-- 2017-09-17 12:00:00
Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Mongla, and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal no three. Squally weather may affect the maritime ports, North Bay, and adjoinin...
-- 2017-09-15 05:38:30
Experts believe snout-fair, dowsabel and percher are among 30 "lost" words which are still in current use, reports BBC. Snout-fair is a word for handsome, dowsabel means "lady-love", an...
-- 2017-09-15 05:14:27
Carbon dating shows an ancient Indian manuscript has the earliest recorded origin of the zero symbol, reports BBC. The Bakhshali manuscript is now believed to date from the 3rd or 4th...
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