Scientists pursuing the biological roots of schizophrenia have identified a potential factor – a normal brain process that gets kicked into overdrive – that could lead to breakthroughs in the prevention or treatment of the condition.The result, accomplished by analysis…
Sweden intends to expel as many as 80,000 refugees and migrants who arrived in 2015 and whose applications for asylum have been rejected.”We are talking about 60,000 people, but the number could climb to 80,000,” Interior Minister Anders Ygeman was…
Imagine Jason Bourne — but with feathers, claws and two-meter wingspan.A vulture that flew into Lebanon from an Israeli nature reserve has been captured on suspicion of spying, according to local media reports.Gamla Nature Reserve tracked the bird to near…
In the dog-eat-dog world of competitive tennis, “sympathy” doesn’t feature in the dictionary. The shelf-life of players is limited and it’s all about doing as well as you can — results wise and financially — in that limited time, even…
A Google artificial intelligence program has beaten the European champion of the board game Go.The Chinese game is viewed as a much tougher challenge than chess for computers because there are many more ways a Go match can play out.The…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is set to leave here for Singapore tonight (Sunday night) for better treatment.He is scheduled to depart Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in a Singapore Airlines flight around 11:54pm, BNP chairperson’s media wing…
Eleven personalities have been declared recipients for Bangla Academy Shahitya Puroshkar for 2016. Director General of Bangla Academy Shamsuzzaman Khan unveiled the names at a press briefing on Thursday at the Bangla Academy auditorium.The recipients are Altaf Hossain (poetry), Shaheen…
President Obama may be big on education now, but that hasn’t always been the case.During an appearance on the talk show The Real, First Lady Michelle Obama didn’t mince words when asked who got better grades in high school, her…
While various Silk Roads are being laid down by China for a “Greater Eurasia” economic integration, it is time to look beyond infrastructure, trade and economics. A lasting foundation must be buttressed by the building blocks of tomorrow, especially in…
On Tuesday Pope Francis met with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani for the first time, an encounter that focused heavily on human rights, religious freedom, and an end to the spread of terrorism.Originally scheduled to take place in November, Rouhani’s visit…
On January 11, 2016 you could scour the internet to your heart’s content, but nowhere would you find a single reference to the start of ceasefire talks between the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the forces rebelling against…
Standing committee member of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Gayeshwar Chandra Roy asked to write down the names of three million liberation war martyrs.“History needs to be written correctly. It does not matter who puts whatever figure. Publish the names of…
A third of the world’s freshwater fish are at risk due to dams on three large rivers, researchers warn, calling for more rigorous construction planning to prevent biodiversity and socioeconomic losses.“The world’s most biodiverse river basins — the Amazon, Congo…
A public health emergency is causing 3.3 million premature deaths a year — more than malaria and HIV combined. But the culprit isn’t a disease pandemic: it’s the toxic air polluting the world’s major cities. In India’s capital Delhi, the…
An imposing equestrian statue of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius dominated the room where Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met on Monday.But Rouhani could not admire some of the other masterpieces at Rome’s world-famous Capitoline Museums,…
An FBI operation to arrest leaders of a militia has ended with one man dead and another wounded on a highway in the US state of Oregon. Seven people from the armed group are now in custody.Ammon Bundy, 40, the…
A power struggle between a political maverick and a conservative insider. A show of force by China and a dead mystic turtle.It’s not usually an occasion for drama but Vietnam’s leadership transition is serving up an unprecedented amount of political…
There has been no improvement as far as corruption in Bangladesh is concerned, according to Transparency International (TI).The Berlin-based anti-corruption watchdog published its Corruptions Perception Index (CPI) 2015, covering 168 countries and regions, on Wednesday.Bangladesh has been ranked 139 with…
Britain have two Grand Slam singles semi-finalists for the first time since 1977 after victories for Johanna Konta and Andy Murray at the Australian Open.Konta continued her remarkable run with a 6-4 6-1 win over China’s Zhang Shuai in the…
Researchers have raised the alarm about an overlooked bacterial disease that they say killed 89,000 people in 79 countries in 2015.In a paper published in Nature Microbiology last week (11 January), researchers say that melioidosis is likely to be present…
The US space agency NASA is considering making new humanoid robots that could offer astronauts a helping hand in risky and extremely hazardous future space expeditions.The agency is developing a six-feet tall, 131.5 kg heavy humanoid robot called R5, previously…
British pop sensation Joss Stone will perform in Dhaka on 20 February.LiveSquare Entertainment in an official statement said Ms. Stone will perform in their new venture Pop Republic as a part of her 2016 world tour.Winner of Grammy and Brit…
The mosquito-borne Zika virus, which has been linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Brazil, is likely to spread to all countries in the Americas except for Canada and Chile, the World Health Organization said on Monday.Zika transmission…
Childhood obesity has reached alarming rates globally and become an “exploding nightmare” in the developing world, including Africa where the number of obese and overweight children under five has nearly doubled since 1990, a WHO commission said Monday.The authors of…
Teenagers as young as 16 are experiencing chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), say researchers, adding that it shows that the condition is much more common in them than previously thought.The team from the University of Bristol in Britain found that almost…
India drew first blood in the three-match Twenty20 series when they beat Australia by 37 runs at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday.After Australian captain Aaron Finch won the toss and sent the visitors in to bat on both countries’ national…
Canadian top coffee maker Second Cup has begun its journey in Bangladesh’s “growing” coffee market.The global brand opened an outlet at Banani in the capital Dhaka on Monday, announcing they will open more such outlets in Uttara, Gulshan, and Dhanmondi.Canadian…
With a blizzard hammering the East Coast, Leonardo DiCaprio’s “The Revenant” topped a subdued US box office with $16 million at 3,711 locations this weekend, according to Sunday estimates.Winter Storm Jonas shut down theatres Saturday in New York City, Washington…
Suicide bombers targeting a town in northern Cameroon killed 32 people and wounded 66 on Monday, one of the worst attacks yet in the Central African nation as it struggles to contain violence blamed on Nigeria’s Boko Haram.State-owned radio and…
Despite significant market turbulence in the beginning of this year, there are reasons to remain cautiously optimistic about the trajectory of the global economy throughout 2016 and beyond. This was the consensus of panellists at the World Economic Forum Annual…