Brazilian consultancy agency Pluri has published a list ranking the most valuable footballers in the world, with the detailed study putting Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in first and second place. Messi is considered the most valuable at an estimated €100m with his Portuguese counterpart just behind on €90m. Spanish football is particularly represented with [...]
Researchers at the University of Rhode Island have found that eating faster increases the amount of food consumption. Results of their two new studies revealed that men eat significantly faster than women, heavier people eat faster than slimmer people, and refined grains are consumed faster than whole grains, among other findings. In one laboratory [...]
EU finance ministers are meeting in Brussels after a top official said the region had just days to take decisive action to resolve the crisis. EU Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said: “We are now entering the critical period of 10 days to complete and conclude the crisis response”. The meeting comes a day [...]
The UK is expected to experience the worst disruption to services in decades as more than 2 million public sector workers stage a nationwide strike, closing schools and bringing councils and hospitals to a virtual standstill. The strike by more than 30 unions over cuts to public sector pensions started at midnight, leading to the [...]
Turkey will suspend all financial dealings with Syria and freeze Syrian government assets as part of sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad’s government, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday. Davutoglu also told a news conference that Turkey, once a close friend of Damascus, would block the delivery of all weapons and military equipment to [...]
Hillary Clinton was due to arrive in Myanmar on Wednesday looking for signs of real change following government reforms undertaken by the one-time reclusive military state. “I will obviously be looking to determine for myself what the intention is of the current government with respect to continued reforms,” Clinton said from Busan in South Korea [...]
BNP chief Khaleda Zia has called an emergency meeting of the party’s highest policymaking forum, the national standing committee, to decide on protest plans against the bifurcation of the Dhaka City Corporation. “The meeting will begin around 8pm on Wednesday. The country’s political scenario, DCC bifurcation, the answer of the Indian prime minister on the [...]
Parliament on Tuesday passed the Local Government (City Corporation) (Amendment) Bill 2011 dividing Dhaka City Corporation into two entities. The passage of the bill empowered the government to remove the mayor and councillors and appoint two administrators from civil servants or people it deems competent for the two corporations and they would run the [...]