AP, Manila A massive leak from a database containing personal details of more than 55 million registered voters in the Philippines will not compromise the May 9 national elections, officials said Friday, in the latest hacking scandal to hit the Southeast Asian nation. Government agents late Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old suspect, a new graduate of…
AP, Brussels German Chancellor Angela Merkel and top European Union officials plan to travel close to Turkey’s border with Syria in hopes of promoting a troubled month-old agreement to manage a refugee crisis that has left hundreds of thousands stranded on the migrant trail to Europe. Saturday’s trip to the Turkish border city of Gaziantep,…
UNB, Dhaka Following the fall of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, at the hands of the ISIS, the militants started forcing women to a accept temporary marriage or sexual jihad (jihad al-nikah), under the pretext of implementing the Sharia, and the women face severe punishments if they refuse to submit, reports London-based Kurdish…
Nusrat Jahan The Internet is wonderful, and Facebook is like the icing on the cake. Then there are the various groups on Facebook that make our day-to-day lives easier, which are like the cherry on top. We the Bangladeshis loves to be a part of a community, regardless of it being real or virtual. So…
Eshan Maitra * Victor Lustig, Sold the Eifel Tower! This guy is my favorite!He traveled from his home country Czechoslovakia to France after WWI in 1925 and sold the Eifel Tower to scrap metal buyers! Twice! He forged governmental credentials and fake paper. Then finally, got away with $70,000 of that time. After WWI France…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Remember the time when there was no language, when we spoke in grunts and signs. No? DUH! you weren’t even born back then. But seriously doesn’t it feel weird to travel to some country and then not be able to speak their language when you really need to? It’s scary trust me. This…
Md. Taqi Yasir If there’s an example of a company about to disruptively innovate an entire industry, it’s Tesla. Partly, this is because of raw technology, and Tesla’s is clearly superior to that of its competitors. Partly, it’s because Tesla has a more efficient business model. As Slate recently pointed out, Tesla bypasses value-subtracting dealer…
Froggie Green If an invention does not have a bizarre back-story of how it was actually invented then I guess it is safe to say that it was a pretty useless. I mean, did you even know that condoms were invented as a replacement for animal skin. I know, right? Imagine having something itchy and…
Steven Kotler, the author of the book Tomorrowland: Our Journey From Science Fiction to Science Fact has talked about some interesting matters. He talks about how in the face of immortality, morality will evidently change. We have evolved to die. If we study the entire history of life on this planet, all lives had an…
Mrs. Idonthaveaphd We hear enough from Television shows, magazines, and blogs about how having a child in our 30s is bad for us and the baby; as if the chapter from our Biology book telling us that our children will turn out downs syndrome if we pop them out in our late 30s was not…