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Airline spells own name wrong on plane

Airline spells own name wrong on plane

-- 2018-09-20 14:33:57

An airline has had to send a plane back to the paint shop after the company's name was spelled incorrectly on it. Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific painted its name as "Cathay Paciic" on the side of the...

Heartbreaking photo raises $43,000 in a day

Heartbreaking photo raises $43,000 in a day

-- 2018-09-19 15:45:14

A photograph of a boy weeping next to his father's body moved Indian social media users to raise more than three million rupees ($43,829; £33,350) for his family in a day. The picture was share...

Aboriginal man fights to stay in Australia

Aboriginal man fights to stay in Australia

-- 2018-09-19 14:56:18

An Aboriginal man has launched legal action against Australia over what he argues is an attempt to deport him to Papua New Guinea (PNG). Daniel Love, 39, was born in PNG but has lived in Australia si...

Sbarro introduces new campaigns

Sbarro introduces new campaigns

FE Online Desk 2018-09-18 20:10:06

Sbarro, an American Pizza Chain in Bangladesh, has introduced a new campaign ‘Weekend Fiesta’ for the customers to celebrate the weekend at Sbarro aiming at making pizza and other fast foo...

Traditional ear cleaning fading away

Traditional ear cleaning fading away

-- 2018-09-18 14:05:58

Traditional ear cleaning, which was not uncommon for people to have their ears cleaned by experts working on the streets offering the service to the everyman, is fading away from Bangladesh. While th...

Archaeologists discover ancient sandstone sphinx in Egypt

Archaeologists discover ancient sandstone sphinx in Egypt

-- 2018-09-17 12:41:10

Egypt says archaeologists have discovered a statue of a lion's body and a human head in the southern city of Aswan. The Antiquities Ministry says the sphinx made of sandstone was found in the Temple...

Kenya islanders build recycled plastic boat

Kenya islanders build recycled plastic boat

-- 2018-09-16 12:30:02

Kenyan islanders have built a boat made entirely of recycled plastic collected during clean-ups of the ocean to highlight the growing menace of plastic waste that ends up in the sea. Last year, the K...

Deadly ‘shark attack’ at US beach leaves man dead

Deadly ‘shark attack’ at US beach leaves man dead

-- 2018-09-16 11:26:05

A man in his 20s has died after being injured in a suspected shark attack in the US state of Massachusetts. The incident happened at Newcomb Hollow Beach around lunchtime on Saturday. The man was pu...

Baatighar discussion on Hasan Azizul Huq on Sept 16

Baatighar discussion on Hasan Azizul Huq on Sept 16

FE Online Desk 2018-09-15 21:43:39

Baatighar, a leading publishing house of the country will hold a discussion meeting on the creative writings of Hasan Azizul Huq on September 16 at 6.00 pm at its Dhaka office. Writer Hasan Azizul Hu...

Devotee makes 580kg laddu to honour Hindu god

Devotee makes 580kg laddu to honour Hindu god

-- 2018-09-15 13:57:23

To make the occassion of Ganesh Chaturthi yet more special, a Tapeswaram-based sweet firm prepared a special laddu, weighing 580 kilograms. The laddu, popularly known as ' Maha Prasadam', was transpo...

Dead rat in soup costs restaurant $190m

Dead rat in soup costs restaurant $190m

-- 2018-09-13 15:51:59

A popular Chinese restaurant chain has lost around $190 million (£145 million) in market value after a pregnant woman found a dead rat in her soup. Hotpot restaurant Xiabu Xiabu's stock hit its...

Malaysia’s deputy speaker visits Radio Amber

Malaysia’s deputy speaker visits Radio Amber

-- 2018-09-12 17:51:40

Deputy Speaker of House Representatives, Malaysia, Dato’ Haji Mohd Rashid Bin Hasnon has recently visited office of Radio Amber, a classified FM Radio in Bangladesh. The Member of Parliament fo...

Vietnam urges people to stop eating dog meat

Vietnam urges people to stop eating dog meat

-- 2018-09-12 12:37:35

Officials in Vietnam's capital Hanoi are urging residents to stop eating dog meat as it could hurt the city's reputation and lead to diseases like rabies. The Hanoi People's Committee said the practi...

Watchdog exposes Thai animal trade on Facebook

Watchdog exposes Thai animal trade on Facebook

-- 2018-09-11 13:27:31

More than 1,500 listings of live animals for sale have been found on Facebook in Thailand by a wildlife trafficking watchdog. Traffic, which monitors such activity, said many of the species, despite...

Miners discover huge gold-encrusted rocks in Australia

Miners discover huge gold-encrusted rocks in Australia

-- 2018-09-10 14:46:51

Miners in Western Australia say they have discovered two huge gold-encrusted rocks that are each estimated to be worth millions of dollars. The largest specimen, weighing 95kg (210lb), was found to c...

World’s largest industrial machine abandoned under open sky

World’s largest industrial machine abandoned under open sky

-- 2018-09-09 20:31:38

This industrial giant was built in the 1960s in East Germany. Poetically nicknamed the Blue Miracle, the huge bucket wheel excavator is believed to be the largest piece of abandoned machinery in the w...

Teen ‘dies taking selfie’ at Yosemite park

Teen ‘dies taking selfie’ at Yosemite park

-- 2018-09-07 15:20:17

An Israeli teenager has fallen to his death in California's Yosemite National Park while trying to take a selfie, reports say. Tomer Frankfurter, 18, had been on a two-month trip to the US, Israeli m...

Paramedics fulfil dying man’s desire for an ice cream

Paramedics fulfil dying man’s desire for an ice cream

-- 2018-09-05 14:51:28

Australian paramedics have been thanked for fulfilling a terminally ill man's desire for an ice cream sundae on his final trip to hospital. The gesture happened last week but has been shared publicly...

Bali 3rd best Christmas destination for Indians

Bali 3rd best Christmas destination for Indians

FE Online Desk 2018-09-05 13:30:45

Christmas vacations among Indians is on the rise year over year, especially to short haul destinations and during long weekends. Skyscanner, world's leading travel metasearch company, analysed Indian...

World’s tallest statue taking shape

World’s tallest statue taking shape

-- 2018-09-04 12:58:55

The world's tallest statue is nearing completion in India. It is designed to be a 182m (600ft) high tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a hero in India's independence struggle, in Gujarat state. Th...

France bans use of phone in schools

France bans use of phone in schools

-- 2018-09-03 16:15:57

French children who are going back to school Monday after summer vacation will have to do so without their mobile phones. The government passed a law banning phone use in all primary and middle schoo...

Bangladeshi swimmer eyes Guinness World Record

Bangladeshi swimmer eyes Guinness World Record

-- 2018-09-03 12:46:52

Khitindra Chandra Boishya, a 64-year-old freedom fighter (FF), has started swimming to cross 186 kms of the Bhogai River, aiming to set a new Guinness World Record. Khitindra started the swimming j...

Gaibandha holds traditional boat race

Gaibandha holds traditional boat race

-- 2018-09-02 12:15:07

A traditional boat race locally known as ‘Nouka Baich’ was held at Kisamat Balua in the Ghagot river adjacent to Bheramara Railway bridge under sadar upazila of Gaibandha district on Satur...

‘Rent A Boyfriend’ app crashes after huge response

‘Rent A Boyfriend’ app crashes after huge response

-- 2018-08-31 19:25:09

The ‘Rent A Boyfriend’ app claimed that in the past 48 hours its servers crashed due to the “hardcore” response evinced by people and they have become the No. 1 trending app on...

The village that plans to ban all cats

The village that plans to ban all cats

BBC 2018-08-30 13:26:33

A small village on the southern coast of New Zealand is planning to implement a radical plan to protect its native wildlife: ban all domestic cats. Under the initiative, proposed by Environment Sou...

Street children show latent talents

Street children show latent talents

Md Zarif Tajwar Shihab 2018-08-30 10:22:46

On August 11, Jhilimili, a volunteer organisation, hosted 'Shoishob'- an art exhibition with works prepared by street children, in the EMK centre. This event was a manifestation of a project that star...

‘Rent A Boyfriend’ app to ‘cure depression’!

‘Rent A Boyfriend’ app to ‘cure depression’!

-- 2018-08-29 13:38:58

This may be one of the most bizarre things that you hear today. An app launched in India’s Mumbai -named Rent A Boyfriend - claims to ‘cure depression’ by ‘renting a boyfriend&...

Women's selfies linked to income inequality: Study

Women's selfies linked to income inequality: Study

-- 2018-08-27 19:11:50

Women tend to post attractive selfies online more in environments with greater economic inequality, rather than where they might be oppressed because of their gender. The findings, published in the j...

Scientists uncover genetic secrets of dinosaurs

Scientists uncover genetic secrets of dinosaurs

-- 2018-08-26 13:27:59

British scientists say they have pieced together what dinosaur DNA looks like. Researchers at the University of Kent say their work uncovers the genetic secret behind why dinosaurs came in such a var...

Attending my first Hajj

Attending my first Hajj

-- 2018-08-25 15:26:56

On the plain of Arafat, I stood among hundreds of thousands of people who were all trying to reach the top of Mount Mercy, whilst covering my first Hajj after 20 years as a photographer for Reuters....