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-- 2018-05-16 10:46:06
A rare blue diamond that has spent the past 300 years in Europe's royal houses has been sold at auction in Geneva for $6.7 million. The Farnese Blue was given as a wedding present to Elizabeth Farn...
-- 2018-05-15 12:32:40
A Chinese climber who was crippled by frostbite on Everest more than 40 years ago has scaled the summit at the start of this year's climbing season. In 1975, Xia Boyu lost his feet after giving his s...
-- 2018-05-12 16:09:17
The Kilauea volcano erupted on May 3, leaving the future of hundreds of people in Hawaii's Big Island uncertain. More destructive lava flows could soon hit Hawaii’s Big Island as the Kilauea vo...
-- 2018-05-11 18:38:31
A man has been fined a record-breaking $120m (£88m) for making more than 90 million automated marketing telephone calls in the US. Miami salesman Adrian Abramovich was accused of trying to sell...
-- 2018-05-10 11:25:15
A record-breaking sale of late billionaire David Rockefeller's private art collection has brought in over $646 million on its opening night. A portrait by Pablo Picasso sold for $115 million and a Mo...
-- 2018-05-09 14:42:18
A 13-year-old boy in the US state of Alabama regained consciousness just after his parents signed the paperwork to donate his organs. Trenton McKinley suffered severe brain trauma when he fell from a...
-- 2018-05-08 12:13:09
Fighting great odds and overcoming seemingly insufferable obstacles, an SSC examinee secured a GPA of 3.61 in his exams writing with his feet as he has been without his arms since birth. Md Omar Faru...
-- 2018-05-05 16:59:12
A woman has been allowed to enter a Japanese traditional bullfighting ring for the first time after a ban was lifted in a bid to modernise the sport. Yuki Araki accompanied her animal on the opening...
-- 2018-05-04 20:18:00
Doctors at a Connecticut hospital say they removed a 132-pound tumour from a woman’s abdomen, and she is expected to recover fully. The ovarian tumour was diagnosed after the 38-year-old woman...
-- 2018-05-04 13:44:25
Faisal Mohammed Al Shimmari farms in some of the most extreme conditions in the world, at Al Ain, an oasis in the United Arab Emirates desert, where temperatures can reach 50C. "It's expensive as we...
-- 2018-05-01 16:01:26
A French museum dedicated to painter Étienne Terrus has discovered paintings it thought were by him are fakes. The Terrus museum in Elne in the south of France discovered 82 works originally a...
-- 2018-04-30 13:28:59
Nearly 1,500 new words and expressions have been added to the Tibetan vocabulary. A national committee on standardisation of the Tibetan language released the words and expressions, which have largel...
-- 2018-04-28 11:30:41
Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the largest single mass child sacrifice event in human history. More than 140 children were sacrificed at about the same time in Peru’s northern coasta...
-- 2018-04-27 16:26:52
Shahriar Caesar Rahman, a Bangladeshi conservation biologist specialising in reptiles, is one of the six who won the prestigious Whitely Award for working in grassroots nature conservation in the worl...
-- 2018-04-25 14:50:00
The only polar bear ever born in the tropics has died in Singapore of age-related ailments. "We have jointly made the difficult but necessary decision to not revive Inuka from anaesthesia on humane g...
-- 2018-04-22 16:49:15
A menu of the first meal ever served aboard the Titanic has fetched £100,000 at auction. The lunch, including consommé mirrette, sweetbreads and spring lamb, was served to officers on th...
-- 2018-04-20 15:03:47
Princess Diana would approve of her son Prince Harry’s marriage to US actress Meghan Markle, according to author Andrew Morton whose famous biography of the late royal caused uproar in Britain s...
Mohiuddin Babar 2018-04-17 17:26:06
It was a pulsating sight at the centre point of Dhaka city on Friday last when thousands of residents participated in a token street cleaning drive. At the call of the Mayor of the southern segment of...
-- 2018-04-17 15:33:21
Reuters won Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for international reporting and photography while the New York Times and Washington Post shared honours for exposing sexual harassment in America and detailing th...
-- 2018-04-16 15:22:35
A surfer mauled by a shark Monday off southwest Australia managed to swim to shore despite serious injuries to both of his legs, an official and a witness said. The 30-year old man was surfing at Gra...
FE Online Desk 2018-04-16 13:31:49
ActionAid Bangladesh (AAB) arranged a multilogue titled ‘Advancing Decent Work Agenda: Departure from Rana Plaza’ on Tuesday at the BRAC Centre Inn to mark fifth year of the Rana Plaza tra...
-- 2018-04-15 16:22:23
How do you like your coffee in the morning? From an Italian espresso to the Vietnamese ca phe trung, made with egg yolks and condensed milk, a lot depends on where you wake up. More people are drinki...
-- 2018-04-14 16:14:10
A Marc Chagall painting stolen from a New York couple’s home in 1988 will be returned to the family’s estate after nearly 30 years, the FBI says. The 1911 painting, Othello and Desdemona,...
-- 2018-04-14 12:11:06
Mentioning that celebration of Pahela Baishakh has increased over the years, Prominent Journalist Abdul Momen on Saturday said the use of Bangla and Bengali culture is gradually decreasing in the soci...
-- 2018-04-13 20:01:22
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Rangpur, Mymensingh, Dhaka, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and at one or two pla...
-- 2018-04-12 15:06:26
A minaret and dome at the royal gate of Taj Mahal were blown away in a strong storm at Agra, India on Wednesday evening. The 12-feet pillar at the entry gate of the Taj Mahal referred to as Darwaza-e...
FE Online Report 2018-04-12 12:30:03
A book titled ‘Socio-Economics of Bangladesh through the Decades’, written by Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) Chairman and also an eminent economist Dr Kazi Khaliquzzaman, is set to...
-- 2018-04-11 12:59:57
An Australian woman who faked having terminal cancer before scamming money from friends of her family has been jailed for three months. Hanna Dickenson, 24, accepted A$42,000 (£22,000; $31,000)...
-- 2018-04-07 13:55:21
Some British historians believe the UK’s Queen Elizabeth II is a descendant of Prophet Muhammad (SM), the founder of Islam. The historians claim the connection was found after tracing the fami...
-- 2018-04-05 15:57:39
What are the most common myths and stereotypes about what Indians eat? The biggest myth, of course, is that India is a largely vegetarian country. But that's not the case at all. Past "non-serious"...
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