February2018
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Former Australian paralympics World Champion visits BRAC ADP girls
Feb 1, 2018Ms. Priya Naree Cooper, a nine-time gold medalist disabled swimmer and recipient of the Order of Australia Medal, visited the capital’s Karail slum area at January 29 to engage with the youths of BRAC’s Adolescent Development... -
CAS overturns doping bans on 28 Russian athletes
Feb 1, 2018Twenty-eight Russian athletes have had their Olympic doping bans overturned and their results from the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi reinstated after their appeals were upheld by sport’s highest tribunal on Thursday. The Court of Arbitration... -
Nintendo to produce Super Mario animation film with Illumination
Feb 1, 2018Japanese video games maker Nintendo Co Ltd said on Thursday it would team with U.S. film studio Illumination Entertainment to produce an animation film using its Super Mario Bros characters. The film would be distributed by... -
Mahmudullah joins 2000 runs club in Test
Feb 1, 2018Stand-in captain Mahmudulllah Riyad joined the 2,000 runs club in Test during the second day of the first Test of the two match Test series against Sri Lanka at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium here on Thursday.... -
Director Michael Haneke to make dystopian TV series
Feb 1, 2018Michael Haneke, the Austrian director of such unsparing thrillers as “The Piano Teacher” and “Funny Games”, is to make his first television series. The producers of the hit German series “Deutschland 83” about a sleeper Stasi... -
No Federer, no Nadal, no Djokovic but plenty at stake in Davis Cup
Feb 1, 2018Just five days after the conclusion of the Australian Open, tennis shifts its attention to the Davis Cup this weekend. France are the defending champions and start their campaign at home to the Netherlands while the... -
U.S. says military option not believed to be close for solving North Korea crisis
Feb 1, 2018A U.S. special envoy said on Thursday all options remain on the table for solving the nuclear standoff with North Korea but that he did not think the military option was close. Joseph Yun, speaking to... -
Turkey orders detention of 120 army personnel over Gulen links
Feb 1, 2018A Turkish prosecutor issued detention warrants for 120 suspects from the military, the state-run Anadolu agency said on Thursday, the latest in a long-running government crackdown launched after a failed coup attempt in 2016. Police began... -
Cuba hands note of protest to U.S. over internet task force
Feb 1, 2018Cuba handed a note of protest to the top U.S. diplomat in Havana on Wednesday over the Trump administration’s creation of a Cuba Internet Task Force that it said was an attempt to violate its sovereignty... -
Philippine news site chief says complaint of cyber libel is ‘baseless’
Feb 1, 2018The head of a Philippine online news site battling revocation of its license for violation of ownership conditions on Thursday said law enforcers should drop a complaint of cyber libel against her, describing it as “baseless”....