Newly crowned champions of Bangladesh Premier League Abahani defeated Dhaka Bank XI 5-3 in an entertaining exhibition match titled âDhaka Bank Football Festâ at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday. Abahani took a 13th minute lead through their midfield marshal Awudu Ibrahim as the Ghanaian headed in a cross from Zahid Hossain. Awudu would make it [...]
Holloman Air Force Base, at the eastern edge of New Mexicoâs White Sands Missile Range, 200 miles south of Albuquerque, was once famous for the daredevil maneuvers of those who trained there. In 1954, Col. John Paul Stapp rode a rocket-propelled sled across the desert, reaching 632 miles per hour, in an attempt to figure [...]
Angered by the death of a fellow student in a road accident, Dhaka Commerce College students set ablaze two buses and vandalised around 40 vehicles, halting traffic in Mirpur and its adjacent areas. The protestors took to the streets after Shaon Ahmed Monu, 17, a first year student of the college, was run over by [...]
Angelina Jolie has become an honorary citizen of Sarajevo at the city’s film festival, in recognition of her film about Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war. Her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, tells the story of a Bosnian Muslim woman’s love for a Bosnian Serb man during the war. “This means so much to [...]
The graves of 40 German soldiers who died during World War I have been vandalised at a military cemetery in northern France, officials say. Wooden crosses were pulled up from the Saint-Etienne-a-Arnes cemetery and some were later used for a camp fire. French President Francois Hollande condemned the act, saying nothing would change French friendship [...]
Egypt’s President Mohammed Mursi has ordered parliament to reconvene, a month after it was dissolved. Mr Mursi, whose Muslim Brotherhood won most seats, said the chamber should reconvene until a new election is held. The military had enforced a court order last month dissolving parliament because party members had contested seats reserved for independents. The [...]
The United Nations chief warned international donors Sunday not to put complex reform demands on Afghanistan as it seeks billions in aid, saying the country was at a critical stage in its development. Concerns over widespread corruption in Afghanistan have overshadowed recent efforts to raise reconstruction and development aid to help Afghans maintain fragile economic [...]
A shot rings out, but the burqa-clad woman sitting on the rocky ground does not respond. The man pointing a rifle at her from a few feet away lets loose another round, but still there is no reaction. He fires a third shot, and finally the woman slumps backwards. But the man fires another shot. [...]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday that “the days are numbered” for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad‘s regime. “There is no doubt that the opposition is getting more effective in their defense of themselves and in going on the offense against the Syrian military and the Syrian government’s militias,” Clinton said during a press conference [...]
The government has successfully implemented 427 decisions out of 523 taken at the last conference of the country’s Deputy Commissioners, the chief executives of the district administrations. At a media briefing organised ahead of the ‘DC Conference 2012′, Cabinet Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan on Sunday said the decision implementation rate was around 81 percent. Several [...]