Channelnewsasia : In a remote corner of northwestern Spain, a small town has set itself the ultimate weight loss challenge: by early 2020, its residents must shed 100,000kg (220,500 pounds). Gone are bacon and fried calamari from the diets of thousands of residents in Naron who are taking to sport again as part of a…
Mirror, UK A 25-year-old woman has been buried underneath a massive iPhone headstone – leaving mourners stunned. The unusual 5ft tombstone was put up over Rita Shameeva’s burial plot in a Russian cemetery earlier this year. The gravestone features a picture of Rita leaning against railings and surrounded by trees in a park. It even…
Desk Report The incident happened in front of a school on Tuesday in Dhaka’s Mirpur, reports Asian Age. A video post by traffic police sergeant Jhoton Shikder shows argument with a woman sitting at a parked black car. The police man says: “Why are you making people suffer parking illegally? Answer this.” “Do you know…
Desk Report: A two-day-long international conference on climate change and environmental issue titled ‘China, South and Southeast Asian Conference on Envi-ronment and Ecological Risk Management’ will begin at Dhaka University today, reports Asian Age. Faculty of Earth and Environment of Dhaka University and Hunan University of China are jointly organizing the program to extend the…
BDnews24 The pilot of the US-Bangla Airlines plane that made a forced landing in Chattogram after its nose gear failed while flying to Cox’s Bazar has earned plaudits for saving the lives of 171 on board. The Boeing 737 aircraft was carrying 164 passengers and seven crewmembers from Dhaka on Wednesday. Its pilot Captain Mohammad…
Desk Report The chairman of Bishwambharpur upazila parishad in Sunamganj district allegedly raped a mother of four children inside his office promising to provide her a sewing machine, reports Prothom Alo. The alleged perpetrator is Harun-or-Rashid, chairman of the upazila and former president of Biswambharpur upazila unit of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). On information,…
Arafat Hasan: China executed a man yesterday for killing nine students and injuring 11 others in a knife attack at a middle school in central China’s Shaanxi province in April, according to a post on a Chinese court’s official social media account. Zhao Zewei was sentenced to death in July after being charged with homicide…
Al Jazeera Dozens of Iraqi men and boys have been forcibly disappeared by Iraqi security forces since 2014, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). In a report published on Thursday, the rights group said 74 mostly Sunni Arab men and four boys had been disappeared between April 2014 and October 2017, often in the context…
Arafat Hasan: US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he wanted a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a turnaround from the administration’s statement in the past where it had suggested it would support a two-state solution only if both sides agreed. In a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines…
Daily Mail, UK: The world’s first flying car is set to go on the market with pre-sales scheduled to begin next month. The first of the two-seat hybrid-electric vehicles, which can switch between driving and flying modes in less than a minute, will be delivered to customers next year. According to manufacturer Terrafugia, which belongs…