Four Chinese miners who had been trapped underground for 36 days have been rescued, Chinese state media say.The men were trapped by a cave-in at a gypsum mine in eastern Shandong province in December.China’s CCTV showed dramatic footage of one…
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‘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.…
Global Doomsday clock hasn’t clicked any closer to midnight
By Reuters News Agency The Iran nuclear deal and movement on climate change prompted the scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, to keep it unchanged on Tuesday at three minutes to midnight. The Doomsday…
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…
We have Powerball winners!
The $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot — the largest lottery prize in history — will be split at least three ways.The winning tickets were sold in Chino Hills, California; Munford, Tennessee; and in Melbourne Beach, Florida, according to state lottery officials.…
I didn’t mean to scare Angela Merkel with my dog: Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told a German newspaper he did not mean to scare Chancellor Angela Merkel when he brought his pet Labrador in to meet her during an infamous press conference nine years ago. Merkel, reportedly fearful of…
Golden retriever returns home to Vermont family after 18 months on lam
On a late June day in 2014, a golden retriever traveling in a car that was involved in a minor crash in northern Vermont bolted, setting off a frenzied search that captivated the surrounding community. On Saturday, after 18 months…
Deformed mountain lion mystery
By Leada Gore A strange mountain lion killed last week in Idaho has hunters and state conservation officials buzzing. The young male mountain lion was killed by a hunter after it was involved in an attack on a dog. The…
The state that loves bullfighting except Spain
Villagers in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu hope to celebrate the New Year harvest festival later this month with traditional “bull-taming” contests once more. “Jallikattu” is a sport that has been practised in southern India for thousands of…
Man claiming to be Jesus tried to kidnap Obama’s dog
CNN – A North Dakota man claiming to be Jesus Christ was arrested Wednesday in Washington, where he had traveled with a plan to kidnap one of the First Family’s pet dogs, law enforcement officials said Friday. Scott Stockert was…
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…
JMB leader killed in grenade explosion
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) leader Mohammed Javed died in a ‘grenade explosion’ on Tuesday, a day after his arrest in Chittagong.Babul Akter, additional deputy commissioner of Chittagong police’s Detective Branch, told bdnews24.com that JMB military wing chief Md Javed was accompanying…
Al Qaeda Indian Subcontinent claims liabilty for Avijit murder
Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has claimed responsibility for the murder of an American atheist blogger inBangladesh over two months ago, according to SITE Intelligence Group. Avijit Roy was hacked to death by two assailants with machetes on…