The blockbuster drug Avastin should no longer be used in advanced breast cancer patients because there’s no proof that it extends their lives and it presents dangerous side effects, the government declared Friday. The ruling by the Food and Drug Administration was long expected, but it was certain to disappoint women who say they’ve run [...]
The box office is lifeless no more: “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1″ opened to $139.5 million domestically this weekend, according to studio data. The fourth of Summit’s vampire-and-werewolf movies had the franchise’s second best three-day opening ever, behind 2009′s “ New Moon” ($142.8 million in November 2009). For a box office [...]
News of the incoming capital market prop-up package spurred on the Dhaka Stock Exchange with shares worth Tk Tk 2.34 billion changing hands in the first two hours of trading on the second day of the week. The Securities and Exchange Commission declared on Sunday night following a meeting of capital market stakeholders and the [...]
A stylish Barcelona sent a message to Real Madrid that they are ready to fight to keep their La Liga title after cruising to a 4-0 win over Zaragoza – even if Real responded with a hard-fought 3-2 success over Valencia to preserve their three-point cushion. The pressure was on Real, who had Barcelona breathing [...]
The attorney for a man accused of plotting to detonate pipe bombs in and around New York says his client doesn’t match the profile of someone who would commit terrorism. Jose Pimentel, 27, is in custody after authorities say he intended to target U.S. military personnel who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Police [...]
Protesters against Egypt’s military rulers remain camped in Cairo’s Tahrir Square for a third day, after the deaths of at least 13 people in violence over the weekend. Security forces launched a major assault to clear the square on Sunday, but protesters returned within an hour. The unrest casts a shadow over elections due to [...]
Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi intends to run for parliament in upcoming byelections, a decision that was expected after her party decided last week to rejoin mainstream politics in long-isolated Burma. Nyan Win, the spokesman for Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, said on Monday she had not yet decided which district she would [...]
Though Bangladesh and India agreed to finalise the extradition treaty at the earliest, New Delhi has told Dhaka that it could not locate the two absconding killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and asked for additional information about them. “We could not locate them yet, but we have sought additional information from Bangladesh government about [...]