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Asia’s first Tyrannosauripus footprint found in China

Asia’s first Tyrannosauripus footprint found in China

Global Times 2019-07-29 16:22:11

A tyrannosaurid footprint was found by paleontologists in East China's Jiangxi Province, marking the first of its kind to be found in Asia. The discovery is of great significance to fauna distributio...

Woman dies trying to reach ‘Into the Wild’ bus in Alaska

Woman dies trying to reach ‘Into the Wild’ bus in Alaska

-- 2019-07-27 13:20:31

A Belarusian woman who was trying to hike to an abandoned bus at the edge of Denali National Park in Alaska made famous in the book and movie “Into the Wild” died after being swept away in...

US embassy celebrates 50th anniv of first Moon landing

US embassy celebrates 50th anniv of first Moon landing

-- 2019-07-24 13:55:22

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller attended a daylong series of programes at the American Center on Tuesday to mark the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon landing. In his opening remarks,...

75-year-old man kicks gator to save pet dog

75-year-old man kicks gator to save pet dog

-- 2019-07-14 12:13:11

A 75-year-old Florida man says he kicked an alligator in the snout after it attacked his dog. Buddy Ackerman says the 8-foot (2.44-metre) gator came from a retention pond near his Palm Harbor condomi...

Toxic lake in Siberia becomes selfie sensation

Toxic lake in Siberia becomes selfie sensation

-- 2019-07-13 17:30:17

Residents of a city in Siberia don’t need to fly off to tropical locales for picturesque selfies taken by pristine turquoise waters. Thousands of Novosibirsk residents — ranging from sca...

Int’l photo exhibition begins at Novo Theatre

Int’l photo exhibition begins at Novo Theatre

FE Online Desk 2019-07-13 15:53:33

A month-long photo exhibition titled ‘People, Nature, Technology’ has begun at the Nuclear Energy Information Centre of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre in the city to celebr...

Nine deer die at Japan park after eating plastic bags

Nine deer die at Japan park after eating plastic bags

-- 2019-07-11 11:44:58

Nine deer have died in Japan's Nara Park over the last four months after swallowing plastic bags, a wildlife group says. The Nara Deer Preservation Foundation said they found huge masses of plastic b...

Countless lucky cats beckon at Tokyo temple

Countless lucky cats beckon at Tokyo temple

-- 2019-07-09 14:33:04

Countless cats beckon visitors at a temple in a quiet Tokyo neighbourhood. Legend provided by the Gotokuji Buddhist temple says it is the birthplace of beckoning cats, the figurines widely believed t...

UNESCO lists Iraq’s Babylon as World Heritage Site

UNESCO lists Iraq’s Babylon as World Heritage Site

-- 2019-07-06 11:08:32

The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Iraq had been lobbying since 1983 for the 4,000-year-old site to be added to the United Nations' prestigious l...

Man posed as woman on dating apps to carjack dates

Man posed as woman on dating apps to carjack dates

-- 2019-07-04 15:24:27

A Northern California man posed as a woman on dating apps to lure men to a meeting place and then rob and carjack them, prosecutors said. Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office charged...

France’s Mirazur named world’s best restaurant

France’s Mirazur named world’s best restaurant

-- 2019-06-26 12:37:08

Mirazur in France has been crowned the world's best restaurant at an awards ceremony in Singapore. The eatery on the French Riviera came top in the annual competition organised by the World's 50 Best...

Woman wakes up alone on dark, parked plane

Woman wakes up alone on dark, parked plane

-- 2019-06-24 13:08:39

A woman has said she was left alone on an Air Canada plane after falling asleep during a flight. Tiffani Adams said she fell asleep while flying from Quebec to Toronto on 9 June. When she woke up, sh...

Online cosmetics store Nandonik starts rebranding campaign

Online cosmetics store Nandonik starts rebranding campaign

-- 2019-06-23 21:43:20

Nandonik Enterprise, an online cosmetics store in Bangladesh, has started a rebranding campaign to promote its platform. As a part of rebranding, they are changing the name of their business to Nando...

Himalayan glaciers melting far faster this century: Study

Himalayan glaciers melting far faster this century: Study

-- 2019-06-20 12:11:28

Himalayan glaciers have been melting twice as fast since the start of this century, underscoring the threat the climate crisis poses to water supplies for hundreds of millions of people across Asia, a...

US billionaire donates £150m to Oxford University

US billionaire donates £150m to Oxford University

-- 2019-06-19 11:46:49

The largest single donation to a UK university has been given to Oxford for a new institute that will study the ethics of artificial intelligence. Stephen Schwarzman, a US private equity billionaire...

Magician drowns in river after Houdini trick goes wrong

Magician drowns in river after Houdini trick goes wrong

-- 2019-06-18 13:20:12

An Indian magician who was lowered into a river while shackled in a bid to recreate Harry Houdini's world-famous trick has drowned, police confirmed. Chanchal Lahiri was meant to escape and swim to s...

Baseball legend Babe Ruth jersey sells for record $5.64m

Baseball legend Babe Ruth jersey sells for record $5.64m

-- 2019-06-16 12:27:34

A jersey worn by legendary baseball player Babe Ruth has become the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold. The garment was snapped up for $5.64m (£4.4m) at auction in New York on...

Son finds family after 40 years in Argentina

Son finds family after 40 years in Argentina

-- 2019-06-14 12:21:47

A man whose parents were abducted by Argentinean secret service agents in 1977 has been reunited with his biological family. Javier Darroux Mijalchuk was just four months old when his father and preg...

Nepal clears 11 tonnes of rubbish, dead bodies from Everest

Nepal clears 11 tonnes of rubbish, dead bodies from Everest

-- 2019-06-06 16:40:36

A Nepal government expedition to Mount Everest has removed 11,000 kilograms of rubbish and four dead bodies from the world's highest mountain, officials have said. Tourism Department official Dandu...

Nepal  to limit Everest access

Nepal to limit Everest access

-- 2019-06-05 16:43:46

Kathmandu: Under pressure after a deadly season on traffic-clogged Mount Everest, Nepal is considering tightening access to the world's highest peak, but mountaineering experts fear the proposed chang...

Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhino dies

Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhino dies

-- 2019-05-29 11:41:10

The future of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino has been struck a blow, with the death of Malaysia's last male. The rhino once roamed across much of Asia, but has now almost disappeared from t...

Amateur photographer's bald eagle picture goes viral

Amateur photographer's bald eagle picture goes viral

-- 2019-05-28 13:00:55

A Canadian amateur photographer says he is "overwhelmed" by the worldwide response to a photograph he took of a bald eagle recently. Steve Biro snapped the image of Bruce the bald eagle at the Cana...

Opera based on life of Yunus staged in Italy

Opera based on life of Yunus staged in Italy

FE Online Desk 2019-05-27 11:03:30

An opera based on Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus's life and his journey to bring financial services to the poor women in Bangladesh has been premiered in Italy.  The opera titled '27 Do...

US museum apologises for racist ‘no watermelons’ remark

US museum apologises for racist ‘no watermelons’ remark

-- 2019-05-25 14:01:16

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has apologised after a teacher alleged her group of pupils suffered racist language and treatment during a visit. Marvelyne Lamy said staff had followed the black and o...

Sherpa sets record with 24th Everest summit

Sherpa sets record with 24th Everest summit

-- 2019-05-21 15:22:44

A Nepalese Sherpa has set a new Mount Everest record, making it to the top for the 24th time - with his second summit in only seven days. Kami Rita Sherpa, 49, successfully scaled the world's tallest...

Disabled dog rescues baby buried alive by teen mother

Disabled dog rescues baby buried alive by teen mother

-- 2019-05-18 12:36:04

A dog in northern Thailand has rescued a newborn baby after it was buried alive, allegedly by its teenage mother. The baby boy is said to have been abandoned by his mother, 15, to hide her pregnancy...

French fashion group Kering to stop hiring models under 18

French fashion group Kering to stop hiring models under 18

-- 2019-05-16 11:36:23

Fashion company Kering has announced that it will no longer use models who are under the age of 18. The French luxury group owns several major fashion houses, including Gucci, Saint Laurent and Alexa...

Urs  of Miah Saheber Maidan Khanqua held

Urs of Miah Saheber Maidan Khanqua held

-- 2019-05-15 19:29:04

The annual Urs marking the 282th death anniversary of Alhaj HazratMaulana Shah Sufi Sayed Abdur Rahim Shaheed (RA), founder of the Mia Saheber Maidan Khanka Sarif, and the 10th descendant of Boro Pir...

Dozens of trafficked seal pups released into wild in China

Dozens of trafficked seal pups released into wild in China

-- 2019-05-13 13:17:19

Dozens of spotted seal pups have been released into the wild, months after they were rescued by police from poachers in China. They were among 100 pups found starving inside a remote farm shed in the...

300 snow-trapped yaks starve to death in India

300 snow-trapped yaks starve to death in India

-- 2019-05-12 14:00:46

At least 300 yaks have starved to death near India's border with China after getting trapped by heavy snowfall. Government official Raj Yadav said they found the corpses in the north-east state of Si...