-- 2018-08-23 11:10:24
Kuldip Nayar, renowned journalist, author and human rights activist passed away on Thursday in Delhi. He was 95. Nayar, a former editor of The Indian Express, was also the author of 15 books including...
-- 2018-08-19 18:24:03
The onset of monsoon rains in Bangladesh has brought further misery to Rohingya refugees living in makeshift shelters of bamboo and plastic sheeting across the Cox's Bazar peninsula, says Medecins San...
-- 2018-08-19 12:47:44
Pregnancy might just be catching at a hospital in Mesa, Arizona in the US where 16 nurses are expecting at once. That's 10% of the nursing staff in the intensive care unit, and patients have started...
-- 2018-08-18 16:08:30
A French court has ruled that a person cannot change his or her last will and testament by text message, individual's will must be written by hand. It was ruling in a dispute over a text by a man goi...
-- 2018-08-17 10:58:42
An 18th century gold coin featuring the likeness of first US President George Washington sold for $1.7 million at auction on Thursday, with the net proceeds going to charity, the auction house said....
-- 2018-08-16 17:38:21
Examination of a mummy has revealed the original ancient Egyptian embalming recipe - first used to preserve bodies. A battery of forensic chemical tests carried out on a mummy that dated from 3,700-3...
-- 2018-08-16 16:25:21
Nearly one in ten UK shoppers (9 per cent) admit to buying clothing only to take a photo on social media according to a survey commissioned by the credit card company Barclaycard. The shoppers have a...
-- 2018-08-15 14:42:12
A postal worker in India has been suspended after he was found to not have delivered thousands of letters for more than 10 years. Ever wondered why you never heard back from that job offer, that ATM...
-- 2018-08-14 16:26:07
A woman in southern China’s Guangzhou City crashed a BMW during a test drive. The crash happened at the car showroom over the weekend, reports hindustantimes.com citing agencies. Video from th...
-- 2018-08-13 12:25:34
A painting bought for £165,000 has been deemed to be nearly worthless by the leading authority on the artist. 'The still life of a glass jug and pears' was thought to be the work of British art...
-- 2018-08-10 13:33:52
In the last 18 years, fifty tigers were beaten to death in the areas adjacent to the Sundarbans while over 332 people killed by the big cats during the same period as they entered localities in search...
-- 2018-08-07 21:24:26
Hordes of headbangers amassed in Germany for the world's largest heavy metal festival - among them, two elderly men who apparently left their retirement home to rock out, police said. Authorities sai...
-- 2018-08-07 15:43:31
A woman who sold her son to paedophiles on the dark net for sex has been jailed for 12 years and six months by a court in southern Germany. The Freiburg court also jailed her partner, the boy's stepf...
-- 2018-08-07 13:04:27
Japan on Monday marked the 73rd anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima during the Second World War, with the city's Mayor making a fresh call for a world without nuclear weapons through dia...
-- 2018-08-03 14:50:33
Parts of New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, ground to a halt on Friday after a substation fault cut off power to the nation’s parliament, shut down traffic signals and plunged busines...
-- 2018-08-01 17:20:59
A woman, who fulfilled her air hostess mother's "dream" by piloting her final flight before retirement, says she feels "happy and overwhelmed". Ashrrita Chinchankar was first officer on the Air India...
-- 2018-08-01 17:01:11
The Hope Diamond, a rare blue diamond that is one of the world's most famous jewels, has had a complicated history, passing through the hands of monarchs and bankers and heiresses and thieves...
-- 2018-08-01 16:52:25
A distressed kangaroo leapt over a 2.2 metre (7.2 feet) wall at a shelter on Tuesday and escaped into a forest after having been rescued from a home he had crashed into in the southern Australian city...
FE Desk 2018-07-31 14:24:32
Vivid memories and emotions about things affect people’s perceptions of when they took place, a Chinese university study finds. In the research, the researchers considered another determinant -...
-- 2018-07-31 13:24:38
A couple who tricked their teenage daughter into travelling to Bangladesh in an attempt to force her to marry her first cousin have been jailed. The husband and wife, who cannot be named for legal re...
-- 2018-07-30 15:28:59
The body of a French skier who went missing in the Alps, near the Swiss border, more than 60 years ago has been identified his story was shared on social media, police said. The human remains, ski eq...
-- 2018-07-29 13:04:53
The International Tiger Day also known as Global Tiger Day is being celebrated in the country, as elsewhere across the globe, to raise awareness for conservation of the majestic big cat from extinctio...
-- 2018-07-28 15:57:04
A killer whale whose calf died on Tuesday shortly after birth has been spotted pushing its body in waters off the west coast of the US and Canada. The mother was last seen with the deceased calf at 7...
-- 2018-07-27 15:28:11
An Indian woman has been detained after a dead infant was found on board a domestic flight from Guwahati in north-east India to the capital Delhi. The cabin crew of the Air Asia flight found the baby...
-- 2018-07-26 12:39:10
A large white-and-blue truck pulls up outside a stadium in central Japan and slowly expands into a place of worship. Welcome to the Mobile Mosque. As Japan prepares to host visitors from around the...
-- 2018-07-24 11:41:03
Three children in Australia are suspected to have fallen ill from using eyeliner contaminated with lead, authorities say. The New South Wales state government issued a public health alert over the Pa...
-- 2018-07-20 16:41:41
The youngest Spitfire pilot to fly in the Battle of Britain during World War Two has died, it has been announced. Sqn Ldr Geoffrey Wellum, who was just 18 when he joined the RAF in August 1939, died...
-- 2018-07-19 15:01:18
Upmarket British fashion label Burberry destroyed more than £28 million in unwanted products this year to stop them falling into the 'grey market' and being bought by the 'wrong' people, it emer...
-- 2018-07-18 14:52:48
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has apologised to a British cave diver he called a "pedo guy" in a row over the cave rescue in Thailand. He said he had "spoken in anger" after Vern Unsworth ridiculed a m...
-- 2018-07-17 13:59:06
A Moscow court has handed down 15-day jail sentences to four members of the Pussy Riot protest group who interrupted Sunday’s World Cup final between France and Croatia when they ran onto the pi...
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