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South Korea shuts dog meat slaughterhouse

South Korea shuts dog meat slaughterhouse

-- 2018-11-23 13:45:58

Officials in South Korea have started to dismantle the country's largest dog slaughterhouse. The Taepyeong-dong complex in Seongnam city, south of Seoul, will be cleared over two days and converted i...

Greenhouse gas levels hit record high

Greenhouse gas levels hit record high

-- 2018-11-22 17:07:49

Concentrations of key gases in the atmosphere that are driving up global temperatures reached a new high in 2017. In their annual greenhouse gas bulletin, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)...

Guatemala ex-soldier sentenced to over 5,000 years

Guatemala ex-soldier sentenced to over 5,000 years

-- 2018-11-22 13:40:34

A Guatemalan court sentenced a former soldier to 5,160 years in prison on Wednesday for the massacre of 171 people in what is considered one of the worst atrocities in that country’s 36-year civ...

D&G cancels fashion show in China amid racism accusations

D&G cancels fashion show in China amid racism accusations

-- 2018-11-22 10:14:40

Dolce & Gabbana has cancelled its Shanghai fashion show amid accusations of racism over its latest ad campaign. The Italian fashion house also had to apologise for posts on its Instagram account...

Cows with or without horns? Swiss to vote on Sunday

Cows with or without horns? Swiss to vote on Sunday

Reuters 2018-11-21 14:46:06

Switzerland votes this Sunday on an issue of national importance that has divided the Alpine country - whether to subsidise farmers who let their cows’ and goats’ horns grow naturally. Th...

India to introduce addl route endorsement service in Nov

India to introduce addl route endorsement service in Nov

-- 2018-11-20 20:48:30

Indian High Commission in Dhaka has taken an initiative for additional route endorsement at Indian Visa Application Centres (IVAC) that will begin on November 22. All the requests for additional rout...

Delhi chokes on 5,000 weddings in a single day

Delhi chokes on 5,000 weddings in a single day

-- 2018-11-20 14:06:44

Heavy traffic was witnessed at many places in India's capital Delhi as 5,000 weddings were scheduled to take place in the city on Monday, officials said. The Delhi Police deployed around 1,000 person...

India opens first-ever elephant hospital

India opens first-ever elephant hospital

-- 2018-11-19 15:00:05

India has opened its first-ever elephant hospital in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh recently. At the hospital, 49-year old Asha placed her left foreleg on a stool for a doctor to attend to an in...

Marilyn Monroe's Golden Globe sells for $250,000

Marilyn Monroe's Golden Globe sells for $250,000

-- 2018-11-18 14:03:34

Marilyn Monroe’s Golden Globe Award sold for a record-breaking $250,000 at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills, California, auction officials said late Saturday. The 1961 award statue for...

Searchers find missing Argentine submarine a year later

Searchers find missing Argentine submarine a year later

-- 2018-11-17 13:53:29

The Argentine Navy said on Saturday a private company hired by the government has located the submarine ARA San Juan some 800 meters (2625 feet) below the ocean’s surface a year after it went mi...

Hockney painting sells for record $90m

Hockney painting sells for record $90m

-- 2018-11-16 14:52:12

A celebrated painting by British artist David Hockney has been sold at Christie's in New York for just over $90 million (£70 million) - an auction record for a work by a living artist. Portrait...

Japan Airlines cracks down on drunk pilots

Japan Airlines cracks down on drunk pilots

-- 2018-11-16 13:02:40

Japan Airlines will introduce a new breathalyser system at overseas airports after one of its pilots was arrested at Heathrow Airport of UK for being drunk. Katsutoshi Jitsukawa was arrested last mon...

Monkey kills newborn in India

Monkey kills newborn in India

-- 2018-11-15 16:22:22

A 12-day-old boy has died after he was snatched from his mother and bitten by a monkey in northern India. The infant's mother was breastfeeding him at their home in the city of Agra when the animal e...

Pink diamond sells for world record price

Pink diamond sells for world record price

-- 2018-11-14 13:59:37

A rare pink diamond has fetched 50.3 million Swiss francs ($50 million; £38.5 million) at auction, a record price per carat. Pink Legacy, weighing in at just under 19 carats, was bought by US b...

Abul Kasem’s third death anniversary today

Abul Kasem’s third death anniversary today

FE Online Desk 2018-11-10 16:59:02

Today (Saturday) is the third death anniversary of Md Abul Kasem, DAFC (Retd). Abul Kasem died on November 10, 2015 at Sreerampur under Badalgachi Upazila in Naogaon. He left behind wife, three sons,...

Video of ‘pushy dad’ goes viral

Video of ‘pushy dad’ goes viral

-- 2018-11-10 15:10:44

When Phil Hatfield was watching his six-year-old son play football, he could not resist giving him a ‘helping’ hand. Little did he know the moment would be seen by more than 18 million pe...

Bhutanese conjoined twins separated at Australian hospital

Bhutanese conjoined twins separated at Australian hospital

-- 2018-11-09 17:14:29

Conjoined Bhutanese sisters were separated in a six-hour operation at an Australian hospital on Friday and the lead surgeon said he was quietly confident the infants would recover successfully. The 1...

Hundreds of buffaloes drown 'fleeing lions'

Hundreds of buffaloes drown 'fleeing lions'

-- 2018-11-08 20:02:33

Hundreds of buffaloes have drowned in a river on the border between Botswana and Namibia. Early investigations suggest the herd was being chased by lions and ran into the river, say Botswana authorit...

Managers compel staff to drink urine, eat roaches

Managers compel staff to drink urine, eat roaches

-- 2018-11-08 00:35:37

Managers at a Chinese firm have been jailed for making staff who failed to reach sales targets drink urine and eat cockroaches, local media report, reports BBC. Police took action after videos emerge...

Stinky durian fruit causes flight delay in Indonesia

Stinky durian fruit causes flight delay in Indonesia

-- 2018-11-07 16:04:44

An Indonesian plane was temporarily grounded after passengers complained about an overwhelming smell of durian in the cabin. Around two tonnes of durian, the world's stinkiest fruit, was in the cargo...

Ryanair sacks staff who 'slept on floor'

Ryanair sacks staff who 'slept on floor'

-- 2018-11-07 12:48:53

Six Ryanair cabin crew members pictured sleeping on the floor of a Spanish airport office last month have been sacked, the airline says. The image, which Ryanair said was staged, was widely shared on...

Suicide rate among Japanese youth hits 30-year high: Survey

Suicide rate among Japanese youth hits 30-year high: Survey

-- 2018-11-05 11:40:28

Suicides by Japanese youth have reached a 30-year-high, the education ministry said on Monday, even as overall suicide numbers have steadily declined over the past 15 years. A total of 250 children i...

Yemeni teacher turns his home into school

Yemeni teacher turns his home into school

Reuters 2018-11-04 11:45:15

Outside the home of Yemeni teacher Adel al-Shorbagy the queue of children lining up for education keeps getting longer. Almost 700 come daily to his house which he converted into a school in the gove...

Japanese island disappears

Japanese island disappears

-- 2018-11-03 15:12:05

A small island, called Esanbe Hanakita Kojima, has unexpectedly vanished off Japan's northeast coast. The mysterious disappearance has prompted Japan's coast guard to search for the island. Authoriti...

Police arrest drunk pilot at Heathrow Airport

Police arrest drunk pilot at Heathrow Airport

-- 2018-11-02 15:52:50

Just 50 minutes before a flight from London to Japan was scheduled to depart, the pilot was arrested for having almost 10 times the legal amount of alcohol allowed in his system. The pilot—Kats...

UK scientists count whales from space

UK scientists count whales from space

-- 2018-11-01 15:49:10

UK scientists have demonstrated the practicality of counting whales from space. The researchers, from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), have been using the highest resolution satellite pictures ava...

India unveils world’s tallest statue

India unveils world’s tallest statue

-- 2018-10-31 13:29:55

India has unveiled the world’s tallest statue, which cost 29.9bn rupees (£330m; $430m) to build. The 182m (600ft) high structure in the western state of Gujarat is a bronze-clad tribute t...

China eases 25-year ban on rhino horn, tiger bones use

China eases 25-year ban on rhino horn, tiger bones use

-- 2018-10-30 13:26:20

Animal conservationists are alarmed over China's decision to partially reverse a ban on the trade of tiger bones and rhino horn. Rhinos and tigers are both endangered in the wild and China prohibited...

Morocco abruptly drops clock change

Morocco abruptly drops clock change

-- 2018-10-27 14:24:55

Morocco has decided to scrap winter time and will instead keep its clocks at summer time, GMT+1, all year around. The announcement comes less than two days before the clocks would have gone back by o...

SA students invent human urine bricks

SA students invent human urine bricks

-- 2018-10-26 15:41:24

Human urine has been used to create environmentally friendly bricks by university students in South Africa. They combined urine with sand and bacteria in a process that allows the bricks to solidify...