Twi-hards have been chomping at the bit for this week to finally come, and tonight (November 14) the cast of “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1” descended on Los Angeles. Fans squealed as Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner made their way to the Nokia Theatre LA Live for the big Los Angeles [...]
If you think interplanetary space is a dangerous place now, with asteroids screaming by at close range and comets crashing into planets with the force of multiple H-bombs, be grateful you weren’t here 4 billion years ago or so. Back then, our solar system was still getting itself organized. Planets caromed around like so many [...]
The crisis in the eurozone gives Britain the chance to refashion the EU as a looser union, David Cameron said on Monday, after Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said that she wanted substantial treaty change to strengthen it and give the European commission the chance to impose fiscal discipline on excessively indebted states in the [...]
Capital market investors on Monday staged demonstrations on the streets in Motijheel and in front of the Dilkusha office of the Securities and Exchange Commission as the stock prices on the Dhaka bourse went on a free fall and its general index fell to below the 5,000-point-mark for the first time in the past [...]
The last remaining places for European football’s showpiece tournament will be decided on Tuesday when eight nations compete in the second leg of the Euro 2012 playoffs. Ten countries have already qualified, along with co-hosts Poland and Ukraine, for the four-yearly tournament taking place in June and July. The most evenly-poised tie is in [...]
Police in New York have launched a pre-dawn operation to clear the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park. The city mayor’s office said on Twitter that the protesters should “temporarily leave and remove tents and tarps” but could return once the park was clear. Occupy Wall Street was set up in September to protests [...]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has written to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reaffirm friendship despite what he refers to as their “differing views on the Middle East,” Israeli officials said on Monday. Sarkozy’s comments, in a condolence message to Netanyahu for the death of his father-in-law, seemed an effort to try to clear the [...]
The BNP chief has handed the United Nations secretary-general a letter comprising the ‘inconsistencies’ of the war crimes trial. Khaleda Zia at her meeting with Ban Ki-moon on Monday also urged the United Nations to play a role for fair national elections in Bangladesh, BNP vice-president Shamsher Mubin Chowdhury informed the media on Monday evening. [...]
Bangladesh will urge the Indian government to complete the transfer of enclaves and demarcation of 6.5 km land boundary as soon as possible, in keeping with the land boundary protocol signed during the Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh’s visit to Dhaka on September 6 and 7. The issue will be raised at a meeting [...]