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There are many legitimate complaints about work in the "gig economy." But, in time, many of the gigs will be...
Indian doctors have removed a kidney weighing 7.4kg (16.3lbs) - as much as two newborn babies - from a patient....
A couple got married on a plane 37,000 feet in the air— eight years after meeting while playing an online...
Oxford Dictionaries, part of Oxford University Press, has declared "climate emergency" the word of the year for 2019. According to...
The birthplace of Adolf Hitler in Austria will be used by the police, Austria's interior ministry said on Tuesday, putting...
A total of 60 captive panda cubs were born, 57 of which survived this year, leading to a captive panda...
A book titled ‘Rasulullah Sallallhu Aalihi Wassllam-er Shikkha O Adhunik Biggan’ (Teaching of Rasulullah Sallallhu Aalihi Wassllam and Modern Science)...
South Africans have been offering to help a couple have the wedding of their dreams after a video of the...
A South Korean service is offering free funerals - but only to the living. More than 25,000 people have participated...
An Indian man took a call in the middle of the night and that angered his wife so much that...
A 45-year-old man, who claimed to have married 60 women using fake names and identities, was finally arrested from his...
A 310-year-old violin worth £250,000 that was left on a train in south London has been returned to its owner....
Four men have been arrested after Australian police found 400kg (882lb) of crystal methamphetamine hidden inside imported hot sauce bottles....
In a bizarre incident, a woman ran away from an 'eggless' marriage, after she was allegedly being denied eggs by...
Japanese police are investigating a 200 million yen ($1.84 million) diamond allegedly stolen from an international jewelry trade show near...
Animal cafes have been springing up all over the world for the last two decades as a place for animal...
Chris the sheep, a merino famed for once being discovered with the world's heaviest fleece, has died in Australia. The...
Egypt on Saturday unveiled the details of 30 ancient wooden coffins with mummies inside discovered in the southern city of...
California unveiled the first statewide quake warning system in the United States on Thursday (local time), the state governor's office...
Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments” and Bernardine Evaristo’s “Girl, Woman, Other” jointly won the Booker Prize on Monday in a surprise...
The 12th death anniversary of veteran journalist Obaidul Huq was observed on Sunday. Obaidul Huq, a doyen of journalism, breathed...
California has become the first US state to ban the manufacture and sale of animal fur. Residents will no longer...
Paleontologists announced Tuesday in Beijing they had discovered a group of 100-million-year-old fossils of dinosaur footprints in east China's Zhejiang...
An Iranian Instagram star famed for posts which appeared to show she had gone to extreme lengths to look like...
Six elephants have fallen to their deaths in Thailand while trying to save each other from a notorious waterfall. Officials...
Thieves stole some of Mahatma Gandhi's remains on what would have been his 150th birthday, police said on Thursday. The...
A research institute for giant pandas was established in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Sunday. The institute...
The annual holy Urs making the 11th death anniversary of Alhaj Hazrat Shah Sufi Syed Hamidullah (RA) The programme will...
While global sea levels rose by about 15 centimetres during the 20th century, the IPCC report said sea levels are...
An American man has drowned while proposing to his girlfriend underwater on holiday in Tanzania. Steven Weber and his girlfriend,...
Protracted conflicts, the worsening climate crisis, a rising level of mental illness among young people, and online misinformation are some...
A young man who found a wallet containing €2,000 (£1770; $2200) in cash on the street in Rome refused a...
Thieves have stolen a unique solid gold toilet worth up to 1.0 million pounds ($1.25 million) from the birthplace of...
A US mother says her newborn daughter is a "little miracle" after she was born on the anniversary of the...
Two weeks ago, a tweet praising the fried chicken sandwiches at Roaming Rooster in the District of Columbia in the...
Modhumoti Bank Limited donated Tk. 10.00 (Ten) Lac to “Baitul Aman Jame Masjid”, Tk. 5.00 (Five) Lac to “Dinwali Madrasah...
A 73-year-old woman in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has given birth to twin girls. Doctors delivered the...
Air Canada has been ordered to pay a French-speaking couple 21,000 Canadian dollars ($15,700; £12,900) and write them a letter...
The West Bengal government is planning to introduce a Bill in the Assembly to check incidents of mob assault and...
Bangladesh's ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan met Friday Brunch quiz winners and dined with them at the Le Méridien Dhaka...
Indonesian Islamic scholar has claimed that China's religion policy is more democratic than other Muslim countries. "China's religion policy is...
Nepalese authorities have banned single-use plastics in the Everest region in a bid to cut down on waste left by...
Pingyao, an ancient town in north China's Shanxi Province, will enter the 5G technology era before October, local authorities said....
Modhumoti Bank Limited observed National Mourning Day by paying tributes to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman...
A waiter near Paris has been shot dead by a customer who was reportedly angry because his sandwich was not...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited organized a discussion and doa program observing the National Mourning Day and the 44th martyrdom anniversary...
South Bangla Agriculture and Commerce (SBAC) Bank Limited arranged a discussion meeting and Doa mahfil to mark the National Mourning...
A man who became wedged between rocks while collecting bat droppings in the Cambodian jungle was rescued after being trapped...
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) has distributed 1250 pieces of mosquito nets among the slum dwellers in Kalyanpur area of Dhaka...
French inventor Franky Zapata on Sunday succeeded in crossing the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard he designed, after a...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has shared new data from the World Meteorological Organization and Copernicus Climate Change Programme, including...
San Francisco International Airport is banning the sale of single-use plastic water bottles. The unprecedented move at one of the...
With the US Congress poised to pass a bill allowing annuities to be offered in mainstream 401(k) plans, Americans soon...
Saudi Arabia has issued new laws that grant women greater freedoms by allowing any citizen to apply for a passport...
Bangladesh Brand Forum is holding its flagship initiative ‘Communication Summit 2019’ at Le Méridien Dhaka on Saturday. The summit will...
A calligraphy artist in North China, who says he never took a day off for eight years, has finally completed...
A tyrannosaurid footprint was found by paleontologists in East China's Jiangxi Province, marking the first of its kind to be...
A Belarusian woman who was trying to hike to an abandoned bus at the edge of Denali National Park in...
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller attended a daylong series of programes at the American Center on Tuesday to mark...
A 75-year-old Florida man says he kicked an alligator in the snout after it attacked his dog. Buddy Ackerman says...
Residents of a city in Siberia don’t need to fly off to tropical locales for picturesque selfies taken by pristine...
A month-long photo exhibition titled ‘People, Nature, Technology’ has begun at the Nuclear Energy Information Centre of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur...
Nine deer have died in Japan's Nara Park over the last four months after swallowing plastic bags, a wildlife group...
Countless cats beckon visitors at a temple in a quiet Tokyo neighbourhood. Legend provided by the Gotokuji Buddhist temple says...
The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Iraq had been lobbying since 1983...
A Northern California man posed as a woman on dating apps to lure men to a meeting place and then...
Mirazur in France has been crowned the world's best restaurant at an awards ceremony in Singapore. The eatery on the...
A woman has said she was left alone on an Air Canada plane after falling asleep during a flight. Tiffani...
Nandonik Enterprise, an online cosmetics store in Bangladesh, has started a rebranding campaign to promote its platform. As a part...
Himalayan glaciers have been melting twice as fast since the start of this century, underscoring the threat the climate crisis...
The largest single donation to a UK university has been given to Oxford for a new institute that will study...
An Indian magician who was lowered into a river while shackled in a bid to recreate Harry Houdini's world-famous trick...
A jersey worn by legendary baseball player Babe Ruth has become the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold....
A man whose parents were abducted by Argentinean secret service agents in 1977 has been reunited with his biological family....
A Nepal government expedition to Mount Everest has removed 11,000 kilograms of rubbish and four dead bodies from the world's...
Kathmandu: Under pressure after a deadly season on traffic-clogged Mount Everest, Nepal is considering tightening access to the world's highest...
The future of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino has been struck a blow, with the death of Malaysia's last male....
A Canadian amateur photographer says he is "overwhelmed" by the worldwide response to a photograph he took of a bald...
An opera based on Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus's life and his journey to bring financial services to the poor...
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has apologised after a teacher alleged her group of pupils suffered racist language and...
A Nepalese Sherpa has set a new Mount Everest record, making it to the top for the 24th time -...
A dog in northern Thailand has rescued a newborn baby after it was buried alive, allegedly by its teenage mother....
Fashion company Kering has announced that it will no longer use models who are under the age of 18. The...
The annual Urs marking the 282th death anniversary of Alhaj HazratMaulana Shah Sufi Sayed Abdur Rahim Shaheed (RA), founder of...
Dozens of spotted seal pups have been released into the wild, months after they were rescued by police from poachers...
At least 300 yaks have starved to death near India's border with China after getting trapped by heavy snowfall. Government...
The historic former Nara Prison, the oldest in Japan and declared a cultural asset, is set to reopen in 2021...
Australia’s latest A$50 note comes with a big blunder hidden in the small print - a somewhat embarrassing typo. The...
Wildlife authorities have shared photos of a three-eyed snake that was found on a highway in northern Australia. The Northern...
Next to a marble pulpit inside a Catholic church, a young Muslim girl chases around with other children. The church...
Society for Promotion of Bangladesh Art, SPBA, in collaboration with Bank Sohar International, Oman, recently hosted a week long exhibition...
Two gorillas have been photographed posing for a relaxed selfie with the rangers who rescued them as babies. The image...
A Cumilla court has sent a day labourer to jail for failing to clear his dues against an electricity connection...
A loving teenager couple sustained serious injuries allegedly after jumping off a five-storey building in Thana Rastar Matha area in...
One of the world's rarest turtles, a Yangtze giant soft-shell, has died in China, leaving just three known survivors of...
Most Indian families still prefer marriages arranged within their religion and caste. Marriages outside these rigid boundaries have often led...
Veteran British stand-up comedian Ian Cognito died on stage minutes after joking with the audience about his death. The 60-year-old...
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