BBC: Félix Nadar is a legend in his native France. A tall, exuberant red-haired dynamo with a fascination for fame, he came to know everyone who was anyone in his career as a journalist and caricaturist. Instinctively understanding the emerging interest in celebrity – and the role photography could play in it – he created…
CNN: The world’s largest aircraft has been retired after six test flights, as its developers prepare to build a new, commercial model to take to the skies in the early 2020s. The prototype Airlander 10, a hybrid helium airship built by Hybrid Air Vehicles, based in Bedfordshire in central England, measures 300 feet in length…
BBC: Some four million people have taken to the waters at the confluence of the sacred Ganges and Yamuna rivers at the Kumbh Mela festival – humanity’s largest gathering. At least 15m people are expected on the first day alone. Officials project about 120m visitors over 49 days. Hindus believe bathing at the rivers will…
Science Alert: Almost half of all Canadians regularly take at least one nutritional supplement such as vitamins, minerals, fibre supplements, antacids and fish oils. Many of these individuals are healthy and hoping to improve general well-being or prevent chronic disease. Scientific evidence, however, suggests that some high-dose nutritional supplements – such as beta carotene, vitamin…
Anadolu Agency: As many as a million fish are believed to have died along the banks of a major river system in drought-battered eastern Australia, and the authorities warned Monday (Jan 14) of more deaths to come. The banks of the Murray-Darling Rivers are thick with rotten fish, with officials putting the number of dead…
UNB: A bridge over Amsara canal in Pirganj upazila remains useless for around 32 years as there was no approach road on both sides of it. Locals said the approach road was washed away during floods in 1987, but no repair work has been done since then. Farmer Abdul Khalek, a residence of Kharipara village,…
Reuters: Thailand’s long-delayed general election to end military rule will have to be postponed from its Feb. 24 date and will likely be held in March, two officials in the Election Commission said on Tuesday. The Election Commission of Thailand has not announced the postponement, but two senior election officials told Reuters it was impossible…
Bangkok Post: A top North Korean diplomat was travelling to Sweden Tuesday, she told reporters, as speculation mounts over the next summit between the isolated state’s leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump. Choe Son Hui, a North Korean vice-minister of foreign affairs, landed in Beijing on a flight from the North Korean…
DOT Desk: The government has no facilities in place to provide any service to increasing number of HIV infected returnee migrants, reports The New Age. Absence of intervention programmes exposes spouses and children of infected returnees to the risk of getting infected, migrant right campaigners told New Age. An unknown number of infected returnees die…
CNN: The past few years have been huge for South Korean pop music. Although the nation’s music industry has been going strong since the 1990s, more recently K-pop has managed to make serious inroads in other parts of the world. The year 2017 in particular saw history made via the seven-member group BTS. They became…