The Guardian, UK: A new search for the missing Cardiff striker Emiliano Sala has been launched after more than £250,000 was raised to fund the operation. An official search and rescue operation for the Piper PA-46 Malibu carrying the Argentinian striker and the pilot David Ibbotson was called off on Thursday. Pleas for the search…
BBC: The Duke of Edinburgh has written to a woman injured in a car crash he was involved in near Sandringham in Norfolk to say that he is “deeply sorry”.Prince Philip wished Emma Fairweather a “speedy recovery”, adding that he was “somewhat shaken after the accident”. The 97-year-old suggested he did not see the car…
AP: No retreat, no surrender is how President Donald Trump frames his decision to temporarily reopen the government while still pursuing a border wall deal. Some of his conservative backers have a different take: “pathetic” and “wimp.” Other Trump supporters seem willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, yet they insist that any…
Russia Today: Canada’s ambassador to China was fired after saying that Huawei’s CFO has a “strong case” against being extradited to the US, and that Ottawa would be better off releasing the Chinese national. “Last night I asked for and accepted John McCallum’s resignation as Canada’s Ambassador to China,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Saturday,…
Afsan Chowdhury writes for DOT : BNP has refused to go to polls at the Upazilla and the municipal corporation level because it thinks that any polls under the current regime will be unfair. The absolutely overwhelming nature of AL’s national elections victory is now causing pressure on the political system itself as AL faces…
Arab News: The chief of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement has warned Israel against continuing strikes in Syria targeting mainly Iranian positions, saying it could fuel war in the region. Israel’s army has since 2013 claimed hundreds of attacks on what it says are Iranian military targets and arms deliveries to Tehran-backed Hezbollah, with the goal of…
The Tech Explorist: A recent collaboration involving a team from the University of Nottingham and The Institute of Photonic Sciences (Barcelona, Spain) have created a new theory that sends temperatures to new lows with the largest precision allowed by the laws of Nature. The study shows the possibility of measuring temperatures below a billionth of…
DOT Desk: Farmers on the border belt of Jhenidah, especially those from Moheshpur upazila, have shown keen interest in peanut farming as the cultivation has paid dividends, reports The Independent. A number of groundnut farmers said they had started cultivating groundnut as a hobby a few years ago, but now a huge number of farmers…
DOT Desk: The High Court yesterday extended its earlier order that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a case filed for torching a covered van in Cumilla’s Chauddagram upazila in February, 2015, reports The Daily Star. The extension of bail will continue till disposal of the case at the trial court concerned. The…
UNB: ‘Silver Discoverer’, a cruise ship operated by Silver Sea Cruise, arrived at Mongla port here on Sunday with 61 tourists from five different countries to visit the Sundarbans, a Unesco world heritage site. Durul Huda, a harbour master commander of Mongla Port, said ‘Silver Discoverer’ anchored at the port in the afternoon with 61…