Two people have been killed and more than 600 injured in fierce clashes between protesters and security forces in Cairo and Alexandria. The clashes came as police moved to prevent a long-term sit-in following a huge demonstration in Cairo against the military leadership on Friday. Some protesters lobbed rocks and a police vehicle was [...]
Judging by the run of successful natural disaster films in the past few years, people are fascinated by the idea of the end of the world. In Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later, a virus ravaged the UK and beyond; an asteroid was the world-ending threat in Deep Impact and Armageddon; and climate change got a [...]
American forward Heather O’Reilly is the only woman nominated for the Puskas Award for FIFA goal of the year, among 10 finalists along with Wayne Rooney and Lionel Messi. O’Reilly was nominated for her 25-yard goal against Colombia in the first round of the Women’s World Cup on July 2. Rooney was picked for his [...]
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) started the week’s trading with rise in price indices on Sunday. The DSE General Index rose by 27.05 points, or 0.52 percent at around 12:15pm. Of the issues traded by then, 163 advanced, 69 declined and five remained unchanged till filing of this report. The last trading day on Thursday, [...]
Libyans celebrated late into the evening Saturday the reported capture of Moammar Gadhafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, nabbed in a desert gunbattle after an 18-day stakeout. Senior Libyan military officials said they believe the potential Gadhafi successor was trying to make his way to neighboring Niger, where a brother, Saadi, was granted asylum. Revolutionary fighters caught [...]
Iran is less than a year away from being unstoppable in its goal of producing a nuclear weapon, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview with CNN released on Saturday. In an advance transcript of an interview to air on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” program on Sunday, Barak said Israel was focused on [...]
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has rebutted opposition claims that the economy is in a tailspin. “I want to tell you that the economic situation has not become critical. We have managed to keep it running. We are better placed given the world economic recession,” she said on Saturday. Speaking at function at Bangabandhu International Conference [...]