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BBC 2017-10-19 11:08:44
The new instalment of Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, has been released in Johannesburg. Dare Not Linger tackles his five years as South Africa's president after the collapse of...
-- 2017-10-19 10:52:47
China’s economy grew at 6.8 per cent in the third quarter year-on-year, down marginally from the previous quarter's 6.9 per cent, government data showed Thursday. The second largest econom...
-- 2017-10-19 10:31:36
Asian shares were mixed on Thursday after Wall Street closed at record highs. Data showed that China’s quarterly growth slowed slightly but was in line with expectations. Japan’s Nikkei 2...
Monira Munni 2017-10-19 10:12:37
Five global-rights groups made a fresh plea to the European Commission (EC) to recheck Bangladesh's GSP status as they alleged continuous denial of core labour rights in the country's apparel industry...
-- 2017-10-19 09:16:36
LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters): Oil prices slipped on Thursday but held onto most recent gains, supported by OPEC-led supply cuts, tension in the Middle East and lower US production. Brent crude LCOc1 was...
Reuters 2017-10-18 12:00:00
Asian shares consolidated recent gains and currencies kept to tight ranges on Wednesday as investors waited to see what policies might emerge from China’s Communist Party conference. The twice-...
Xinhua 2017-10-18 12:00:00
At least six policemen were killed and 22 others injured when a suicide blast hit a security forces truck in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday morning, local Urdu TV channel AJJ repo...
Reuters 2017-10-18 12:00:00
Two men were injured in a drive-by shooting at South Africa’s Cape Town International Airport, police said on Wednesday. Operations at the airport, which is the second busiest in the country an...
-- 2017-10-18 12:00:00
President Xi Jinping said China has maintained its position as the world’s second largest economy and contributed more than 30 per cent of global economic growth. China’s GDP rose from 54...
BBC 2017-10-18 11:28:32
A drug-based therapy appears to restore breathing in rats paralysed from the neck down by a spinal injury, according to scientists. They hope their "exciting but early" findings could ultimately help...
Xinhua 2017-10-18 11:06:58
Six members from a family, mostly children, were killed Tuesday night in an airstrike carried out by Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s northeastern province of Jawf, a local security official told...
AP 2017-10-18 10:22:25
A Kenyan electoral commissioner has announced her resignation and says the presidential vote just eight days away cannot credibly proceed as planned. Roselyne Akombe spoke Wednesday from New York but...
FE Report 2017-10-18 10:13:20
Required facilities including roads and warehouses are still inadequate at the Benapole-Petrapole land-ports to handle growing volume of export cargo between Bangladesh and India. Keeping this in vie...
BBC 2017-10-18 02:30:01
US President Donald Trump's latest bid to impose travel restrictions on citizens from eight countries entering the US has suffered a court defeat. A federal judge slapped a temporary restraining orde...
-- 2017-10-18 02:25:34
A six-member Bangladeshi delegation, led by State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam, reached Istanbul on Wednesday to attend the 9th Summit of the D-8, an organisation for economic coopera...
Reuters 2017-10-18 02:24:46
China will deepen economic and financial reforms and further open its markets to foreign investors as it looks to move from high-speed to high-quality growth, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday....
Reuters 2017-10-18 02:08:15
An explosion overnight in the southern Swedish town of Helsingborg caused extensive damage to the entrance of a police station, authorities said on Wednesday. Nobody was injured in the explosion, whi...
-- 2017-10-18 01:08:55
SEOUL, Oct 17 (Reuters): The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has a compliance rate with their output cut pledges of about 86 per cent, Fatih Birol, the executive director of the I...
-- 2017-10-18 01:03:21
NEW DELHI, Oct 17 (Reuters): India is likely to stick to its fiscal deficit target of 3.2 per cent of GDP, and may accelerate sales of government stakes in lenders and other companies as part of an ef...
-- 2017-10-17 12:00:00
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested an Indian citizen along with 18 gold bars from Ghiba border area of Benapole in early Tuesday. The arrestee was identified as Srabon Biswas (50), son...
BBC 2017-10-17 12:00:00
Irish stand-up star and BBC quiz show panellist Sean Hughes has died aged 51. Richard Bucknall, his former agent and promoter, said the "formidable" comic died in hospital on Monday and would be reme...
-- 2017-10-17 07:42:32
The UK's key inflation rate hit its highest for more than five years in September, driven up by increases in transport and food prices. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) climbed to 3 per cent, a level...
BBC 2017-10-17 03:31:06
Sri Lanka have decided to play in Pakistan for the first time since their team bus was attacked in Lahore in 2009 after being left "fully satisfied" with "stringent security measures". The two teams...
Reuters 2017-10-17 02:42:12
An experimental cancer drug discovered by Hutchison China MediTech has demonstrated promising activity in shrinking tumors in lung cancer patients whose disease had worsened following treatment with a...
-- 2017-10-17 02:01:24
Asian stocks rose Tuesday after Wall Street’s major indexes hit new highs as China prepared to open a key political meeting. The Shanghai Composite Index was unchanged at 3,380.38 and Tokyo&rsq...
Reuters 2017-10-17 01:48:46
Singapore’s exports unexpectedly fell from a year earlier in September, data showed on Tuesday, their first on-year contraction in five months as electronics shipments posted their first decline...
AP 2017-10-16 12:42:57
An oil rig exploded Sunday night in Lake Pontchartrain in St. Charles Parish, a Louisiana police department said. Kenner Police Department spokesman Sgt. Brian McGregor said Sunday evening that rescu...
FE Report 2017-10-16 12:00:00
The government has been urged to ensure easy-term housing loans for the low-income group of people to achieve the SDG 11. According to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), adequate, safe and affor...
-- 2017-10-16 12:00:00
The World Food Day (WFD) is being observed in the country as elsewhere in the globe today (Monday). This year’s theme is “Change the future of migration, invest in food security and rural...
BBC 2017-10-16 12:00:00
The Met Office has warned of "potential danger to life" as the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia head for the British Isles with 80mph (130km/h) winds. An amber warning for Northern Ireland, where all sc...
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