-- 2018-06-19 14:02:59
The world's oldest known Sumatran orangutan has died in an Australian zoo aged 62, leaving behind 54 descendants. Puan, described as the "grand old lady" of Perth Zoo, was euthanised on Monday due to...
FE Online Desk 2018-06-18 13:24:50
A three-day conference titled ‘Capacity Building in Green Infrastructure and Housing for Poverty Reduction in the Pacific Region’ begins on June 25 in Fiji, said a stat...
-- 2018-06-16 16:52:50
An Indonesian woman has been found in the belly of a giant python after the swollen snake was captured near where she vanished while tending her vegetable garden, police said on Saturday. The body of...
FE Online Desk 2018-06-16 12:12:29
The World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD) will be observed worldwide on June 17 with the focus on sustainable land management as a way to regenerate economies, create jobs and revitalise commun...
FE Online Desk 2018-06-14 14:17:15
The Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA), a Hong Kong-based not-for-profit organisation, named Reuters as the winner of the SOPA Award for Public Service Journalism for its reporting on the Rohingya c...
-- 2018-06-13 12:40:14
A Nigerian man has buried his father in a brand new BMW instead of a coffin in order to see him off in style in the local graveyard of Ihiala city, according to global media reports. The wealthy son,...
-- 2018-06-13 12:18:09
A second-hand Hermes Birkin bag has sold for £162,500 ($217,144) in London, a new European record for the most expensive handbag sold at auction. The 2008 Himalaya Birkin, with an 18-carat whit...
-- 2018-06-12 20:03:54
In Morocco's capital, the beach is a favourite place during the holy month of Ramadan. Waves lap in a steady rhythm, marking time, as hundreds of Moroccans wait for sunset to break their day-long fas...
-- 2018-06-12 11:11:40
A tree regarded as the icon of the African savannah is dying in mysterious circumstances. International scientists have discovered that most of the oldest and largest African baobab trees have died o...
-- 2018-06-09 11:40:20
Shoppers in the Afghan capital are going online for everything from fashion to furniture to avoid bomb attacks and sexual harassment, with dozens of start-ups doing a brisk trade where there were few...
-- 2018-06-08 17:57:15
David and Victoria Beckham are donating their royal wedding outfits to raise money for victims of the Manchester bombing. Twenty-two people died in last year's attack. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex...
-- 2018-06-05 16:38:26
An early landscape painting by Vincent Van Gogh has sold for €7 million (£6.2 million; $8.3 million) at an auction in Paris. Painted in 1882, Fishing Net Menders in the Dunes depicts peasa...
FE Online Desk 2018-06-03 13:44:39
An international seminar titled “Accountability: The International Criminal Court and the Rohingya Crisis” will be held on June 4 at Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban, University of Dhaka....
-- 2018-06-03 11:41:47
An anonymous bidder has agreed to pay $3,300,100 at auction to have a private lunch with Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. The winning bid came near the end of a fiv...
-- 2018-06-01 17:08:23
Imagine being trapped in a spaceship with the world's smelliest fruit. Thailand's space research agency has just announced plans to send durian to space by July, as part of a project to produce Thai...
-- 2018-05-31 16:00:57
Over the last two weeks, every household in Sweden received a booklet of instructions on how to prepare for war. Issued by the government and including instructions for every Swedish resident to resis...
-- 2018-05-29 13:01:31
French entrepreneur and politician Serge Dassault has died at the age of 93, his family has said. Mr Dassault led the Dassault group after his father, Marcel's, death in 1986. The group has numerous...
-- 2018-05-28 13:45:49
New Zealand plans to slaughter about 0.15 million cows aiming to eradicate a strain of disease-causing bacteria from the national herd. Politicians and industry leaders announced the ambitious pla...
-- 2018-05-27 13:27:02
Former US astronaut Alan Bean, who was the fourth man to walk on the Moon, has died in Texas aged 86, his family has said. In later life he became an accomplished artist, producing paintings that wer...
-- 2018-05-24 11:42:42
A mother who tricked her teenage daughter into travelling to Pakistan to marry an older man was jailed for four and a half years on Wednesday after becoming the first person in England to be convicted...
-- 2018-05-23 13:09:14
One of the great American authors, Philip Roth, has died aged 85. The Pulitzer, National Book Award and Man Booker International Prize-winning novelist's work drew its inspiration from Jewish family...
-- 2018-05-23 11:50:32
Ten workers at McDonald's fast food franchises in the US have filed complaints of sexual harassment against the firm. The female workers, one of whom is 15 years old, allege groping, propositions, in...
-- 2018-05-22 17:45:30
On the first day in her new cell, Tatiane Correia de Lima did not recognise herself. "It was weird to see myself in a mirror again," says the 26-year-old mother-of-two who is serving a 12-year senten...
-- 2018-05-20 22:42:53
Pope Francis said on Sunday he would elevate 14 churchmen from five continents to the rank of cardinal, picking candidates that work with the poor or where Catholics are in a minority and putting his...
-- 2018-05-20 16:57:45
In a corner of his sprawling farm, Milouda Mohammed proudly unveiled his latest venture - a pond full of catfish that could herald a new future for farmers like him on the Sahara desert. He is hoping...
-- 2018-05-20 11:25:04
US wildlife officers in Washington state have shot dead a mountain lion that killed a cyclist and mauled another. The two cyclists were in North Bend, about 30 miles (50km) from Seattle, when the att...
FE Online Desk 2018-05-18 17:19:38
American Franchise Pizza Chain Sbarro Bangladesh Thursday announced unlimited pizza as exciting Iftar menu for the month of Ramadan. Like previous years, pizza lovers can enjoy unlimited New York and...
-- 2018-05-18 15:52:54
Antor, a 10-year-old boy shares his dreams and struggle to study just like any other children. Not long ago, it was just around two years back when Antor Ahmed felt jealous if anyone walked past him...
FE Report 2018-05-17 20:21:03
Kochipata, a magazine for children and juveniles, celebrated its first founding anniversary by awarding its junior writers and renowned personalities. The publication also organised painting competit...
-- 2018-05-17 10:25:41
A US man died when a vape pen blew up and launched projectiles into his skull, found a post-mortem examination. Tallmadge D’Elia also suffered burns over 80% of his body in a fire on 5 May caus...
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