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Indy Mellink, a Dutch card fan, was explaining a game to her cousins last summer when she asked herself: why...
Among the young sumo wrestlers lifting weights in the ring, 10-year-old Kyuta Kumagai stands out. At 85 kilograms (187 lb),...
Egypt has unveiled a significant new archaeological discovery at the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, including 54 wooden coffins, many...
Ice cream has been found to have been contaminated with COVID-19 in China after three samples tested positive for the...
A team of climbers from Nepal on Saturday become the first mountaineers to successfully complete a winter attempt on the...
He came, he sawed, he conquered. One hundred years ago on Sunday, illusionist P.T. Selbit put a woman in a...
A painting of comic book hero Tintin that for years was kept folded in a drawer is to go on...
A South Korean startup has developed an AI-powered dog collar that can detect five emotions in canines by monitoring their...
In a small village in eastern Hungary, more than 20,000 teddy bears are “hibernating” in a warehouse, waiting for the...
Economic, climate and healthcare upheavals point to the need to move toward developing cleaner energy sources, environmentally friendly jobs and...
Companies must listen to scientists and align their plans to reach net zero targets with a global pact to fight...
Austria’s Labour Minister Christine Aschbacher has resigned after allegations that she plagiarised some of her university work, but denied any...
A shawarma shop in Moscow was forced to close a day after it opened following an outcry over its provocative...
Being tall is the giraffe’s competitive advantage, giving it the pick of leaves from the tallest trees, so scientists were...
The Louvre museum in Paris - home to the Mona Lisa and other world-famous works of art - suffered a...
Namibia saw a continued downward trend in rhino and elephant poaching last year after stepping up patrols and sharply increasing...
Tesla chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk surpassed Amazon.com’s top boss Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest man, Bloomberg...
Khanqueh-e-shaheed (RA) Mia Saheb's maidan Khanqueh Sarif , situated at luxmibazar , the old city will hold religious discussion, Fateha...
A group of rare incubating dinosaur fossils has been unearthed in east China's Jiangxi Province, shedding light on reproductive research...
A bluefin tuna sold for 20.8 million yen ($202,197) in the first auction of the new year at Tokyo’s Toyosu...
Sweden’s Greta Thunberg, who pioneered a global climate change campaign as a 15-year-old, turned 18 on Sunday and promised to...
Russian scientists are poring over the well-preserved remains of a woolly rhinoceros that likely roamed the Siberian hinterland more than...
Arnob is neither a fitness guru nor a health nut. He is simply someone who wants to lose weight and...
Thailand’s Mana Srivate has performed dozens of resuscitation attempts in his 26 years as a rescue worker, but never before...
Inspiration for high fashion can come from strange places. For one Taiwanese designer, it’s upcycling old wires and bolts from...
It can be called old-fashioned but he still thinks that there’s nothing as beautiful and romantic as a love letter....
Five years ago, many investors and executives would have politely told Jill Atkins to buzz off. Now they listen keenly...
Khanqueh-e-shaheed (RA) Mia Saheb's maidan Khanqueh Sarif , located at luxmibazar, will hold religious discussion, Fateha khwani, zikir asker ,milad...
The avuncular man in the TV ad has an urgent-sounding message from his employer, the oil giant Chevron Corp. “I...
Orchids are not often called ugly, but that is how the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London, described a new...
Kangaroos can learn to communicate with humans similar to how domesticated dogs do, by using their gaze to “point” and...
Kangaroos can learn to communicate with humans similar to how domesticated dogs do, by using their gaze to "point" and...
British espionage writer John le Carré has died aged 89, following a short illness, his literary agent has said. The...
A locked-down pandemic-struck world cut its carbon dioxide emissions this year by 7 per cent, the biggest drop ever, new...
More than 60 years after Mal Osborn earned a varsity letter jacket from the University of Maine as a track...
Under a new regulation issued Wednesday by the US Department of Transportation, airlines will no longer consider emotional support animals...
Forest officials have built a unique bridge for reptiles and other small animals to cross a busy highway in India's...
If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be? Ding, ding,...
The shirt worn by Diego Maradona when he scored his famous 'Hand Of God' goal against England at the 1986...
The annual Urs marking the Holy 881th Fateha-e-Yazdaham (death anniversary) of Bara Pir Hazrat Gawsul Azam Shaikh Syed Abdul Kader...
About 100 pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins have died in a mass stranding on the remote Chatham Islands, about 800...
Cambridge University Library has announced that two notebooks written by Charles Darwin, worth many millions of pounds, have been missing...
Staying stuck at home for months amid the countrywide lockdown, many people, including those having a nine-to-five job schedule, have...
Today (November 10) is the fifth death anniversary of Md Abul Kasem, a former high official of Defence Finance (Army)....
Ten youth changemakers at a webinar marking the Bangabandhu National Youth Day on Sunday shared their personal experiences, struggles, and...
When Um Feras realised there were no leisure spaces for women in her city in Yemen, she founded her own...
The waxwork museum Madame Tussauds in Berlin loaded its effigy of TV star-turned Republican President Donald Trump into a dumpster...
Pandemics will emerge more often, spread faster, cost more and kill more people than Covid-19 without bold action to halt...
Khanqueh-e-Shaheed (QuddsesaSirrahul Aziz ) Mia Saheb'sMaidan Khanqueh Sharif in old Dhaka will hold religious discussions, Hamd and Nat-e-Rasul (sm), milad...
Whatever the festival is, Bangalee taste bud just needs some excuses to be pampered and at this phase we all...
Puja is here and everyone seems to be busy making it more special. The tasks we set for ourselves include...
More than seven decades ago, their families were divided by war and hatred - Koenraad Tinel, the son of a...
This year has taught us a lot of things, but here is one major 2020 lesson: Tech skills are a...
‘Fortify Rights’ on Wednesday said donor governments seeking to raise one billion dollars in aid for Rohingya should acknowledge the...
On the eve of this week’s donor conference for the Rohingyas, UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, today (Tuesday) stressed the...
The US Embassy in Dhaka is now accepting Concept Notes for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) of fiscal...
You can’t miss the green 1969 Volkswagen Beetle parked at the corner, orchids and ferns crowding its open bonnet, sunflowers...
Almost 2 million babies are stillborn every year or 1 every 16 seconds, according to a new joint report. A...
Hundreds of thousands of people with mental health conditions are shackled around the world, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in...
Online abuse is driving girls to quit social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, with nearly 60 percent experiencing...
Egypt on Saturday put on show dozens of coffins belonging to priests and clerks from the 26th dynasty nearly 2,500...
When Swedish fashion brand Acne Studios last hosted a catwalk show in Paris in January, it ordered dozens of vegan-friendly...
Winners of the prestigious Nobel prizes this year will receive an extra 1 million crowns ($110,000), the head of the...
At least a third of 270 whales stranded off Tasmania have died and more are feared to be dying, rescuers...
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 27 coffins at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, a burial ground that is also home...
Universal Amity, a voluntary organisation, has been providing food for homeless and poor people under its ‘Food for Good’ project...
The annual holy Urs marking the 12th death anniversary of Alhaj Hazrat Shah Sufi Syed Hamidullah (RA) The programme will...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for massive investment in cheaper and profitable renewable energy, saying that it is...
Scientists have created gene-edited pigs, goats and cattle to produce sperm with traits such as disease resistance and higher meat...
Clampdown on the media increased sharply in 2020, the UN’s cultural agency said on Monday, highlighting 21 protests around the...
About 99 per cent of the vultures have become extinct across the globe while only 260 vultures remain in the...
A global study recently conducted by Educo revealed that about 40 per cent of Bangladeshi children believe life after the...
A three-year-old girl entangled in the tail of a giant kite survived a terrifying ride after being swept more than...
Israeli researchers shed light on the survival mechanism activated in the brain in conditions of uncertainty, stressful conflict with a...
At least 40 dolphins have mysteriously died in an area of Mauritius affected by an oil spill from a Japanese...
Holy Ashura and the death anniversary of Hazrat Imam Hussain (R) will be observed tomorrow (Saturday) at the Mia Shaheb's...
Ice sheets covering three-quarters of Greenland, the world's largest island, are melting at such a pace that by the end...
Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 1,200-year-old olive oil-soap making workshop in southern Israel, the oldest one found in the country,...
Sharks have more complex social lives than previously known, as shown by a study finding that gray reef sharks in...
An Israeli jewelry company is making what it says the world's most expensive coronavirus mask, a gold, diamond-encrusted face covering...
British radio host Sideman has quit the BBC over the corporation’s decision to include a racial slur in a news...
An investor group managing more than $16 trillion on Wednesday launched the world’s first step-by-step plan to help pension funds...
Britain is considering minting a coin to commemorate India’s independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, amid growing interest in recognising the contributions...
The Eid-ul-Azha prayer at Miya Saheber Maidan Khanka Sharif will be held at 7:00 am at Luxmibazar of Old Dhaka,...
The new National Education Policy (NEP) announced by the Indian government Wednesday brings in multiple reforms, including doing away with...
India is going to allow foreign universities to open campuses in the country as part of efforts to boost education...
Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, filed a lawsuit in California on Thursday against unnamed paparazzi photographers for allegedly...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued a directive to ban the Southeast Asian country’s wildlife trade with immediate...
Saima Wazed Hossain, Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Autism, has been chosen as a “Thematic...
The US embassy in Dhaka has issued a fresh travel alert for its citizens amid the outbreak of coronavirus Covid-19....
Different kinds of colourful facemasks have become a part of fashion across the globe amid the coronavirus pandemic. But a...
There is ‘very little risk’ that pets can infect their owners with Covid-19, the chief scientist of the World Health...
The authorities of Rajshahi University suspended Kazi Jahidur Rahman, an assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department, after...
With no sign of the global coronavirus threat easing anytime soon, protective masks are fast becoming fashion accessories for Indonesians...
Delwar Hossain, who registered for this year’s hajj trip, believes he will not be able to make the pilgrimage to...
When everyone across the globe is terrified of the coronavirus, Khabirunnesa, a one hundred and one-year-old woman from Gopalganj, has...
Oceanic birds of four species are now on an unusual surprise visit to Padma River in this northwestern city, miles...
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