-- 2018-02-24 13:17:23
French customs officers have found an impressionist painting by Edgar Degas stowed on a bus, more than eight years after it was reportedly stolen. The French Culture Ministry said Friday that customs...
-- 2018-02-22 14:02:00
A US morning radio show presenter has given birth on air during her show. Cassiday Proctor, a weekday morning presenter on The Arch station in the US city of St Louis, broadcast her birth by Caesarea...
-- 2018-02-21 14:58:46
Sea levels will rise between 0.7 and 1.2 metres (27-47 inches) in the next two centuries even if governments end the fossil fuel era as promised under the Paris climate agreement, scientists said on T...
-- 2018-02-21 14:02:22
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth made a surprise appearance in the front row at a fashion catwalk on Tuesday where she watched a show by emerging designer Richard Quinn. The 91-year-old monarch, dress...
-- 2018-02-20 17:48:22
Saudi Arabia is going to host its first-ever fashion week in Riyadh next month, from March 26 to 31. Designers from all over the world are expected to join the event at Riyadh's eco-friendly Apex Cen...
-- 2018-02-20 13:39:05
A Bangkok court has awarded paternity rights to a Japanese man over 13 babies he fathered through Thai surrogate mothers. The ruling allows Mitsutoki Shigeta, 28, to pursue custody of the children....
-- 2018-02-20 10:59:01
A Japanese company is planning to build the world's tallest wooden skyscraper, to mark its 350th anniversary in 2041. Sumitomo Forestry said 10% of the 70-storey W350 tower would be steel, combined w...
-- 2018-02-19 15:29:43
Chinese authorities have demanded "severe punishment" for a man who allegedly stole the thumb of a terracotta warrior statue on display in the US, Chinese state media report. The 2,000-year-old statu...
-- 2018-02-19 14:03:01
Pakistan’s flamboyant cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has married Bushra Maneka, a respected Pir [faith healer] in Pakpattan, in "a simple ceremony" in Lahore. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (...
FE Online Desk 2018-02-19 12:14:40
United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) recently arranged a certification ceremony for the newly- joined Probationary Officers. A total of 52 officers graduated after 9 months comprehensive training o...
-- 2018-02-18 18:22:23
Cara Lucy O'Connor has a concern. Pluto used to be one of the nine planets in the solar system, and it isn't anymore. That's not right, said the little girl from Ireland. So Cara, with the help of he...
FE Online Desk 2018-02-18 15:30:24
The fourth edition of a graphic novel series on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was launched at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka city. The book focuses on the Father of the Nation’s journ...
-- 2018-02-18 13:55:06
Researchers in the US have used a new scanning technique to discover a painting underneath one of Pablo Picasso's great works of art, the Crouching Woman (La Misereuse Accroupie). Underneath the oil...
-- 2018-02-17 14:08:01
A man has driven a sports car across 21 countries, starting at the most northerly pub in the world and finishing at the most southerly. Ben Coombs, 38, from Plymouth in Devon, drove 20,000 miles acro...
-- 2018-02-15 18:06:34
At least twenty-one dolphins were killed and washed up on a beach in northern Mexico after attack by another species of the marine mammals. The federal environmental protection agency said that 54 do...
-- 2018-02-15 13:41:01
Indian fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee has apologised after facing backlash over his comment on Indian women who do not know how to wear 'saree', a traditional garment. At an event at Harvard U...
-- 2018-02-14 17:18:53
About two years ago, the heartwarming story of a remote train station in Japan keeping its doors open for a passenger to travel to and from school touched chords on the Internet. A similar story has e...
-- 2018-02-14 14:09:53
A mother has spoken of her relief after a private clinic in Gabon finally released her baby, who was held for months over an unpaid medical bill. The case shocked the country, and she gained much pub...
-- 2018-02-13 21:46:10
Thousands of people flocked to the Ekushey Book Fair on the first day of Spring, on Tuesday, to siege the opportunity to celebrate Pahela Falgun. A large number of visitors of all ages particularly y...
-- 2018-02-13 13:57:54
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said radio can unite and empower communities and give voice to the marginalised. "Radio reaches the widest audience in the world," the UN chief said in a mes...
-- 2018-02-13 13:30:17
An Ohio woman had given up hope of seeing her wedding dress again after a dry cleaner mix-up three decades ago until her daughter’s friend saw photos of the dress on Facebook. Michelle Havrilla...
-- 2018-02-12 21:45:58
It was 1960 when she left her motherland and travelled to Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) to pursue humanitarian work as a Catholic Sister. The then 30-year-old British woman Lucy Helen Frances Holt,...
-- 2018-02-12 13:14:50
One of the most elusive dating tactics since the beginning of time has to be 'playing hard to get'. Prior researches have yielded little support for the efficacy - or inefficacy - of this belief and t...
-- 2018-02-12 11:17:03
The sun might be unusually cool by 2050, according to a new study. Based on the cooling spiral of recent solar cycles, scientists from University of California, San Diego believe the next "grand-mini...
FE Report 2018-02-11 21:47:43
The High Commission of Pakistan, Dhaka Saturday organised a musical night at its chancery in the city in memory of poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Prime Minister’s Adviser Dr Gowher Rizvi, US Ambassador...
-- 2018-02-11 15:07:06
A public elementary school in Tokyo’s upscale shopping district of Ginza has raised parents’ eyebrows with a plan to adopt uniforms designed by Italian fashion brand Giorgio Armani for its...
-- 2018-02-11 13:15:06
A Maine man says he punched and kicked a 150-pound bear, scaring it away after it attacked his puppy in the woods. Twenty-nine-year-old Dustin Gray said the bear lunged at him and his 11-month-old pu...
-- 2018-02-10 13:29:59
Police say an extremely simple sketch helped investigators identify a suspect in a theft from a Pennsylvania farmers market. Lancaster police say the suspect pretended to be an employee before steali...
-- 2018-02-09 14:57:58
A woman has been killed while taking a selfie with a friend on a train track in Thailand. A friend said they had been drinking and decided "to take a photo with the train" but did not see an approach...
-- 2018-02-08 17:44:03
An asteroid, estimated to be between 15 and 30 metres in size, will safely pass by Earth on Friday, NASA has said. The celestial object, designated asteroid 2018 CB, will pass closely by Earth at aro...
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