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-- 2018-10-22 13:53:15
A lioness has killed the father of her three offspring, suffocating her mate by locking her jaws onto his neck at the Indianapolis Zoo in the US in an attack not fully understood by zoo staff. The li...
-- 2018-10-21 16:16:36
Think of the most commonly-spoken languages other than English in the United States - Telugu from southern India stood first, while Bengali is considered the second most rising language in the country...
-- 2018-10-20 16:07:17
A farmer in Munshiganj claims to have grown the world's biggest potato on his farm in Sirajdikhan. The claim is pending verification by the Guiness World Records organisation. Farmer Belayet Hossain...
-- 2018-10-20 15:27:46
An Arizona man has survived two days trapped alone in an abandoned mine shaft with rattlesnakes. He killed three of the snakes while waiting to be discovered, according to rescue crews. John Waddell...
-- 2018-10-18 16:50:54
Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg has issued an official government apology to Norwegian women who were mistreated over World War Two-era relationships with German soldiers. Norway, a neutral coun...
-- 2018-10-18 15:27:54
Some of Japan's famed cherry blossoms, also known as sakura, have bloomed unexpectedly this autumn. The famous pink and white flowers are typically visible for about two weeks in the spring - phenome...
-- 2018-10-17 14:09:55
A maintenance worker from Belgian air force accidentally fired a M61A1 20mm Vulcan cannon from an F-16 jet he was working on at Belgium's Florennes Air Force Base earlier this week, destroying another...
-- 2018-10-16 16:05:17
Sleeping rough in public areas is now against the law in Hungary. The law was brought in by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government, but the United Nations called it "cruel" insisting it goes agains...
-- 2018-10-15 15:45:47
New Zealand has voted for its bird of the year 2018 and it's one known for being "drunk, clumsy and a bit of a clown", organisers say. The kereru has a liking for fermented fruits, which contain alco...
-- 2018-10-14 19:43:27
Gulshan Club and Sylhet Club have signed an agreement with a view to share different issues. Gulshan Club President Mr Showkat Aziz Russell and Sylhet Club President Mr Haseen Ahmed signed the agreem...
-- 2018-10-14 14:37:57
An Australian wildlife carer has suffered a punctured lung as she and her family fought off a savage attack by a kangaroo at their property. Linda Smith, 64, and her husband Jim were feeding kangaroo...
-- 2018-10-12 13:59:42
A passenger plane travelling from the south Indian city of Trichy to Dubai sustained damage after hitting the airport wall during take off. Air India IX 611, which was carrying 130 passengers and six...
-- 2018-10-11 14:00:15
Drink companies Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestle were found to be the world’s biggest producers of plastic trash, a report by environmental group Greenpeace said. Working with the Break Free From...
-- 2018-10-06 15:19:59
An eight-year-old girl found a pre-Viking-era sword while swimming in a lake in Sweden during the summer. The girl, Saga Vanecek, found the relic in the Vidostern lake while at her family's holiday h...
-- 2018-10-05 16:55:02
A British man has died after being bitten by a sea snake on a fishing trawler in Australia, police have said. The man, 23, had just pulled up a net off the coast of the Northern Territory when he was...
-- 2018-10-04 15:58:12
Police have arrested the headmaster of a high school who allegedly shaved heads of five male students at Madhabpur village in Sadar upazila of Thakurgaon district. The arrestee is Abdul Jabbar, 52, t...
-- 2018-10-04 15:10:45
In the town of Puerto Palomas, Mexico, Melanie Figueroa wakes up around 07:00 to get ready for school, kisses her mum and sister goodbye, and heads out the door. Millions of other students in Mexico...
-- 2018-10-02 17:07:07
A 16-year-old boy in Turkey has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for kissing his 13-year-old girlfriend after teachers found his schoolmates sharing video of the event. A court in so...
-- 2018-10-02 13:39:52
The University of Central Florida (UCF) in the US has a unique product to sell - experimental Martian and asteroid soil. Interested buyers can get it for $20 a kg plus shipping. For creating the Mart...
-- 2018-09-29 13:52:49
The US military has suffered the first crash in its hugely expensive F-35 fighter jet programme. A F-35B jet came down in South Carolina, the Marine Corps said. The pilot managed to safely eject and...
-- 2018-09-28 15:48:23
A swarm of bees flew into the engine of a Mango Airlines plane, forcing a delay in flights at the main airport in South Africa's coastal city of Durban. Bee experts were called in and they safely rem...
-- 2018-09-27 15:10:54
A passenger has been pinned to the ground by police at Dublin Airport after running out of the terminal towards a plane and shouting at the pilot to wait. The incident happened shortly before 07:00 l...
-- 2018-09-26 16:13:29
Tokyo police have arrested a 49-year-old woman suspected of leaving her stillborn baby in a coin locker for several years. Emiri Suzaki turned herself in to the police and confessed that she had stor...
-- 2018-09-26 12:38:48
An Apple-I computer, the first product made by the computing giant, has sold at auction for $375,000. The machine was designed by Steve Wozniak, known as Woz, the co-founder of Apple. His business p...
-- 2018-09-25 11:56:29
Archaeologists have found a 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Portugal, in what one specialist called the ‘discovery of a decade’. Spices, ceramics and cannons engraved with Portuga...
-- 2018-09-23 19:30:19
A day-long conference of young feature writers was held recently at Dhanmondi area in Dhaka with the slogan ‘Lekhar Golpo, Golper Lekha’ (story of writing, writing for story). Around 60 f...
-- 2018-09-23 15:39:22
The Australian scare over needles found in strawberries has spread to New Zealand after needles were found in a punnet of the fruit in an Auckland supermarket. The Countdown supermarket chain said it...
-- 2018-09-22 14:59:13
Anjali Saraogi, a 45-year-old businesswoman from Kolkata, who began running only four years ago and was the only woman to make it to the Indian team for the world ultra-run championship in Croatia, ha...
-- 2018-09-22 14:21:22
Belgium's traditional potato "frites" could soon be 3cm (1.1in) smaller than normal, growers have warned. Pierre Lebrun, head of the Walloon Potato Growers' Association, said lower levels of rainfall...
-- 2018-09-21 19:17:03
The National Weather Service reported Thursday that the overwhelming amount of rain from Hurricane Florence over three days was a “1,000-year” event. But these once-rare events are poised...
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