Reuters: The Kremlin released several official photographs on Monday showing Russian President Vladimir Putin taking a hiking holiday in Siberia with his defense minister and the head of the Federal Security Service, the FSB. The photographs show the 65-year-old Putin in a khaki outfit and hat, carrying binoculars and trekking poles, hiking in forested mountains…
Halima Akter: A Rohingya dad Mohammed Selim is teaching his 8-years-old daughter taekwondo. Her name is Nasima and she learns how to defend herself. They live in largest refugee camp in the world, its name Kutupalong refugee camp and it is in Bangladesh. Mohammed used to be a taekwondo champion in his youth. He’s now…
NDTV: Donning a helmet inside a pearl silver sports sedan, Rana Almimoni skids and drifts around a Riyadh park, engine roaring, tyres screeching and clouds of dust billowing from the back. For Saudi women, such adrenaline rushes were unimaginable just weeks ago. Speed-crazed women drivers are bound to turn heads in the deeply conservative desert…
Reuters: Brazil’s Supreme Court will weigh in September an appeal by jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to be set free so he can join the presidential campaign already under way, a court spokesperson said on Monday. Lula was jailed in April to start serving a 12-year sentence on a corruption conviction that…
Banglanews24: Twelve more secondary schools of the country have been nationalized as part of government’s latest nationalization program. The Education Ministry’s government secondary branch-3 has issued an order to this effect on Tuesday (August 28). The nationalized schools are- Khetlal Pilot Model High School & College, Kalai MU Hugh School and Akkelpur FU Pilot Hugh…
Desk Report: As many as 274 pirates of 26 gangs have surrendered to the law enforcement in the last two years, choosing to make a return to normal life. Over hundred have been killed in [gunfights[ while around 500 have been put behind the bars. Yet, the situation has hardly improved, with new gangs joining…
Desk Report: A health centre at Ujaldanga in Fulchhari upazila has been completely eroded by the surging water of the Jamuna river, and 55 families have lost their homesteads and croplands, reports Daily Star. Ujaldanga health centre went into the river on August 17 as the rapacious river started devastation in the areas for the…
Desk Report: In Papua New Guinea, on the eastern half of the world’s second-biggest island, 80% of people live in rural villages – and many in the most remote and isolated regions have little contact with the outside world at all. Here, as Mark Stratton found, traditional rituals still survive.The dappled light, cast through the…
iTV News: A weight-loss pill has been hailed as a potential “holy grail” in the fight against obesity after a major study showed it did not increase the risk of serious heart problems. Researchers say lorcaserin is the first weight-loss drug to be deemed safe for heart health with long-term use, which could see regulators…
Abrar Hussain: Indonesia was once again been struck by a massive earthquake yesterday. According to the US Geological Survey, both tremors struck off the coast of West Timor, about 100km (62 miles) southeast of Kupang, in the East Nusa Tenggara province. The quake struck at a depth of 6.2 miles (10km) and as of writing…