AP Online In a blow to President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s Supreme Court early Friday rejected a motion seeking to block an impeachment vote against her in Congress’ lower house. It was another defeat for the embattled leader, who has lost support of key allies this week and is now even closer to a first major…
Sky News: Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has bought a 2.3% stake in Snap – the company behind Snapchat – for $250m (£193m). The billionaire, who was held for two months in a high-profile corruption crackdown, said he made the investment on 25 May. He paid about $11 (£8.51) a share. His investment comes…
Reuters: The mother of one of the British Islamic State militants suspected of murdering western hostages, lost a legal challenge on Friday that it was wrong for Britain to assist a U.S. investigation which could lead to them facing the death penalty. Britons El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey – two of a notorious group…
Russia Today The US will provide $10 million extra in military aid to help Ukraine beef up its naval capabilities, the State Department has announced, days after a Senate resolution called for such aid in response to the Kerch Strait incident. Russia was ordered to “immediately return to Ukraine the seized vessels and detained Ukrainian…
Sky News It is a truth universally acknowledged that a beer cracked open outside must be in want of a couple of annoying flies. Of course, nobody really wants those flies – but still they come, following the opening of a beer like Monday follows the weekend. Now scientists have figured out how fruit flies…
Abrar Hussain of DOT Two people have been shot dead yesterday in Khagrachhari’s Panchhari after the office of a UPDF-backed independent candidate was reportedly attacked. The incident occurred in the Pujgang Nicher Bazar area around 12:15pm, BDNews reported quoting Panchhari OC Nurul Alam. The dead have been identified as 32-year-old tea vendor Chikya Chakma, a…
DOT Desk Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested three people in the capital on charge of spreading rumours through social media. The arrestees are Wahidunnabi, 47, Arafat Tarunno Tamadi, 37 and Abdullah Jabid, 45, reports The Daily Observer. They were held from Shyamoli on Thursday night. The move comes just few days…
UNB Ambassador of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Pak Song Yop has expressed his country`s keen interest to build up people to people relationship with Bangladesh. “We want a people to people relationship for a better understanding between the two nations”, he said while addressing a congratulatory meeting on the occasion of 73rd founding anniversary…
BBC Expectant mothers should be told that the risk of placenta complications rises after a caesarean or fertility treatment, according to top doctors. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) guidelines said early diagnosis of conditions placenta praevia and placenta accreta was vital.They added doctors should discuss with women the safest way to give birth.The…
Eurek Alert: It’s the archetypal child’s drawing – family, pet, maybe a house and garden, and the child themselves. Yet how do children represent themselves in their drawings, and does this representation alter according to who will look at the picture? A research team led by academics from the University of Chichester has examined this…