Anadolu Agency “Hobbit homes” built in Turkey’s central Sivas province have attracted interest of many domestic and foreign tourists. Inspire by the famous fantasy novel and movie, The Lords of the Rings, the municipality in Sivas province has built underground homes. In The Lord of the Rings, hobbits are fictional and tiny humanoid race in…
Reuters Critics of Theresa May’s Brexit plans stepped up their efforts on Sunday to force the British prime minister to change tack on leaving the European Union, setting the tone for one of the worst-tempered conferences for her Conservative Party. Her former foreign secretary and former Brexit minister both came out to rubbish her so-called…
Russia Today A huge asteroid dubbed 2018 SP1 is hurtling towards Earth. The space rock is estimated to be about the size of the Statue of Liberty or larger. The giant space rock, discovered by NASA on September 19, is closing in on Earth at the speed of 37,600 mph, or 60,000 kph. SP1 measures…
Reuters Kurds voted in a parliamentary election in their semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq on Sunday, with the two dominant parties widely expected to extend their power sharing rule despite growing discontent. The poll comes a year after the region of six million made a failed bid to break away from the rest of Iraq…
BSS Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ICT affairs adviser and son Sajeeb Wazed has ruled out opposition claims about the state of democracy and fears over the upcoming polls, saying none of those were true. “They (opposition) are wrong. None of these claims are true,” he wrote in a signed article in US-based political news and…
Russia Today Oil is the real reason behind all conflicts in the Middle East while Syria is just the latest victim of this struggle, Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl told the UN General Assembly in a speech she started in Arabic. The very existence of the modern Middle Eastern states have been “shaped by oil…
Desk Report Bangladesh’s ace all-rounder Shakib al Hasan slipped to second place in the International Cricket Council (ICC) ODI all-rounder rankings. He lost the top spot to Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan, reports The Daily Sun. Rashid Khan has become the top-ranked one-day international (ODI) all-rounder after his performance in the recently concluded Asia Cup. Khan took…
Desk Report The board of directors of Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL) has recommended 5.0 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2018, said an official disclosure on Sunday. The final approval of dividend will come during the annual general meeting (AGM) scheduled to be held on November 08 at…
Reuters Portugal and Juventus FC footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has been accused of rape by 34-year old Kathryn Mayorga, according to German media outlet Der Speigel. The woman accused the renowned footballer omf raping her in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009 and then paying $375,000 for her silence. Cristiano’s lawyer – Schertz Bergmann Rechtsanwälte…
AP Ever since a fire gutted Brazil’s 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, the question has been: Could what was destroyed be restored? A flicker of hope emerged last week when an emergency mission from the U.N. cultural agency held out the possibility that some objects had survived the Sept. 2 blaze and outlined…