Yangon – Myanmar’s former president Thein Sein has shed his formal attire and his hair to join the Buddhist monkhood. Thein Sein’s ordination as a monk took place Monday, officials said, four days after he presided over a historic transition…
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US Navy ship missing for 95 years found near San Francisco
A US Navy ship that went missing 95 years ago with 56 aboard has been found off San Francisco, ending one of the biggest mysteries in US naval history, authorities said Wednesday. The USS Conestoga tug boat, which disappeared on…
Trapped in an airport for a year
Fadi Mansour, a Syrian, has been detained in a Turkish airport for over a year after he attempted to emigrate to Europe and escape from the danger in his home country.
Donald Trump just referenced his organ size in a Republican debate
By Olivia Becker and Sarah Mimms Less than 10 minutes into Thursday night’s Republican debate in Detroit, Michigan, Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner for President of the United States, made a joke about the size of his penis. Trump was…
Life sentence to a 3-yr old boy
A life sentence apparently handed down by mistake to a 3-year-old boy on February 16, 2016, exemplifies the arbitrariness of Egyptian courts that are used to punish political opponents of the government.
Nine gold bars concealed in abdomen recovered at airport
Dhaka – Nine gold bars were recovered by Customs Intelligence after the carrier of the consignment released those through his stool passage at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on early Wednesday. The nine gold bars were concealed inside stomach of the…
BD born European Sultana in search of her family
After 37 years of her departure, Sultana Van Der List, a Bangladeshi origin Dutch national, has returned home to reconnect with lost relatives.
Tk 10b defamation against AL MP: Tempering Bangabandhu picture
Chittagong – A Tk 1,000 crore defamation case was filed on Thursday against ruling party MP MA Latif here on charge of tampering with Bangabandhu’s picture on billboards and festoons set up in Patenga and Bandar areas of the port…
Putin’s ex-wife marries man 21 years her junior, report says
Moscow – Russia is abuzz with rumors about the love life of its former first lady, Lydmilla Putina, amid reports the 58-year-old ex-wife of the Russian President may have secretly remarried. According to an investigation by an independent Russian-language news…
‘Business tycoon Moosa agrees to disclose Swiss Bank details’
Dhaka – Controversial business tycoon and DATCO Group chairman Moosa Bin Shamsher on Thursday agreed to provide detailed information of his bank account with the Swiss Bank to the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) within a few days, an official said.…
Flower in space
Remember how in the Hollywood film The Martian, Matt Damon’s character Mark Watney grows potatoes on Mars to survive on the Red Planet? While that’s still a sci-fi achievement, here’s a bit of real life news that’ll leave you quite…
Giant Mao statue ‘removed’ from Henan village
A 37m-high (120ft) gold-painted statue of Chairman Mao in China’s countryside has been removed, just days after it was erected, state media report. A village official told the People’s Daily that construction of the Mao Zedong statue had not been…
Six-year-old Canadian flagged a flight security risk
By Rachel Browne Before Adam Ahmed could even walk or talk, he was flagged as a security risk in Canada. His parents, Sulemaan Ahmed and Khadija Cajee, suspected there was something wrong shortly after he was born when they were…
How one camel kiss destroyed happy marriage
Who would have thought that a camel can destroy a family? But this is exactly what happened to one married couple in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia!
Did Hitler really only have one testicle?
Sung to the tune of The Colonel Bogey March, the old wartime song had it that Hitler was not quite a ‘complete’ male. Now, an extraordinary claim based on an account from a long-dead German army medic asserts that the…