December2017

Bitcoin continues to give its investors an exciting ride. This week, it has fallen by about one-third from a record high of just short of $20,000. So far, on Friday alone, it has lost 14% of...

Australia captain Steve Smith says his fast bowlers will continue to bombard England’s tailenders with short-pitched deliveries despite claims their beleaguered batsmen deserve more protection from the umpires. Smith’s uncompromising stance comes after former England captain...

Actor Sylvester Stallone on Thursday denied an accusation that he raped a woman in the 1990s and said the allegation was “completely fabricated.” Celebrity news site TMZ reported on Wednesday, citing law enforcement sources, that a...

Lipi Khandokar is one of them who are working to promote Bangladeshi crafts and arts industry in the local and international market. Bangladesh is historically well known for its textile industry from the past. At present,...

It is not easy to lead a good and virtuous life in Iran if the film-maker Mohammad Rasoulof’s latest film, “A Man of Integrity”, is anything to go by. Its downtrodden hero struggles to make an...

Emblazoned with a tiger and a bear — the mascots of the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics — a blue and white high- speed train rolled out of Seoul station Friday as a new line to...

BRAC and the German Development Bank (KfW) on behalf of the German Government signed two agreements to set up a fund on climate change adaptation and climate-induced migration. The project called ‘Climate bridge fund’ has been...

Abdullah Mahmud of Afghanistan is getting ready to go back to his country or ‘watan’ as he calls it, after surgery for colon cancer in India. He is weak but definitely on the path to recovery...