Dhaka, 18 Jan – GCM Resources plc and POWERCHINA (a People’s Republic of China Central Government State Owned Enterprise) signed a Joint Venture Agreement and EPC Contract for the development of 2,000MW of mine-mouth coal-fired power plants with an approximate…
Hi Mostafa Kamal, Today marks what would have been Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 90th birthday. And although he’s not with us today, Dr King’s steadfast commitment to the causes of equality and justice continue to transform the world. I…
Rajshahi, Oct 29 – As recognition of best reporting in Campus Journalism, Four Journalists of Rajshahi University have been awarded as best reporters.
Lionel Messi broke his right forearm on Saturday and will be sidelined for about three weeks, a major setback for him and Barcelona right before some important games.
An Indian bus driver has been suspended – for letting a monkey “drive” his bus. This is despite not one of the 30-or-so passengers on board the vehicle in southern Karnataka state complaining about their furry chauffeur. However, when a…
The jacket worn by loveable Star Wars scoundrel Han Solo in “The Empire Strikes Back” as well as Indiana Jones’s signature fedora are among rare movie memorabilia going under the hammer in London on Thursday.
Pyongyang saw the fall of its longstanding backer with understandable trepidation Fyodor Tertitskiy In December 1991, the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. This was an event the whole world was waiting for, yet while Moscow…
An Indian woman will soon become the first in Asia to give birth to a baby after undergoing a successful uterus transplant recently, said doctors with a private hospital in Pune, a city in southwestern state of Maharashtra.
• The White House has released the full text of the joint statement signed by US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Here’s the full text: “President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and…
A pregnant cow has been sentenced to death after it wandered over the EU border. Penka, due to give birth in about three weeks, walked away from her herd near the Bulgarian village of Kopilovtsi and crossed the border into…
Deng Qiong has no time for marriage or romance, because she’s busy being a “mother” of 12 orphans. Deng, 45, is the mother of No. 9 family in the SOS Children’s Village in Urumqi, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.…
A 117-year-old Japanese woman, thought to be the world’s oldest person, has died, a local official told AFP Sunday. Nabi Tajima, who was born August 4, 1900, died around 8:00 pm (1100 GMT) Saturday at a hospital on her native…
Searching the shoreline sediment of British Columbia’s Calvert Island, researchers uncovered 29 footprints that are 13,000 years old. The footprints belonged to two adults and a child, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS-ONE.
Rokiah Hashim from Malaysia writes using the name of Siti Ruqaiyah Hashim . Starting from 1987 her poems and short stories were published by mainstream literature magazines and newspapers. She is also prolific in film and theatre critics and wrote…
By James Landale The Commonwealth has secretly begun considering who might succeed the Queen as its head, the BBC has learned. The issue is hugely sensitive because the role is not hereditary and will not pass automatically to the Prince…
Principled Politicians and Popular Protest Weaken Authoritarian Populist Agenda Paris – Political leaders willing to fight for human rights principles showed that they could limit authoritarian populist agendas, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2018, reviewing events…
Hello Mostafa Kamal, Over the past year, Michelle and I have been working with an extraordinary team to dream up a campus for active citizenship on the South Side of Chicago. And while this Presidential Center may have our name…
The latest European Quality of Life Survey shows – overall, there has been progress in quality of life in the EU from 2011 to 2016, with some dimensions having recovered to the pre-crisis levels of 2007. A decrease in material…
A huge so-called “peace diamond” sold by the government of Sierra Leone to discourage crime-tainted “blood diamonds” fetched $6.5 million on Monday. The 709-carat stone, which was unearthed in March, is the largest discovered in Sierra Leone in almost a…
By Johannes Friedrich and Andrew Pickens Washington DC, Nov 3 (IPS) – Negotiators and stakeholders headed to Bonn, Germany, for next week’s UN climate summit continue to confront a range of questions surrounding one essential query: How do we meet…
Setsuko Thurlow was 13 years old and standing only a mile away from ground zero when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. More than 62 years after that horrific day, she…
Sierra Leone said Tuesday it plans to auction off a massive 709-carat diamond at a December sale in New York, aiming to make a clean break with the “blood diamonds” of its past. The stone, which was unearthed in March,…
Swiss researchers have revealed that nearly 75 percent of honey produced all over the world has been contaminated by pesticides, which, if consumed daily, may pose a long-term problem for human health, local media Swissinfo reported on Friday. The study,…
Two decades on from the death of princess Diana, her sons Princes William and Harry are working to keep her legacy alive with unusually emotional tributes after years of silence. In the build-up to the 20th anniversary of her death…
Sensational and previously unseen tapes have revealed Princess Diana feared her close friend and protection officer was “bumped off”. The shocking TV documentary, never seen on British TV, lays bare Diana’s disastrous marriage to Prince Charles . In it she…
Manama: Saudi King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has called for the suspension of a columnist after he published a piece that praised him with God-like attributes.
President Donald Trump on Sunday calls for united efforts to face Terror at an Arab-Islamic-American summit in Riyadh to leaders of 55 Muslim-majority countries. Excerpts: I want to thank King Salman for his extraordinary words, and the magnificent Kingdom of…
By Baher Kamal Rome, Apr 13 (IPS) – Perhaps you are not aware enough of the fact the oceans have it all! What is “all”? Well, oceans have from microscopic life to the largest animal that has ever lived on…
Sotheby’s is displaying the startling “pink star” diamond in London before it’s being auctioned in Hong Kong next month. The company says the gem should fetch more than $60 million when put on the block on April 4, which would…
Tourists fled their hotels in panic on Bali Wednesday after the popular Indonesian holiday island was rattled by an early morning earthquake. The 5.5-magnitude quake struck inland about 10 kilometres (six miles) northeast of the Balinese capital, Denpasar, and not…