April2019

A raging fire that tore through Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris was under control early Tuesday after the blaze brought its towering spire and roof crashing to the ground, wiping out centuries of priceless heritage central...

Some 17.4 million Americans watched the first episode of the final season of television’s “Game of Thrones” – a record audience for the medieval fantasy series, cable channel HBO said on Monday. HBO said Sunday’s live...

Avijatrik, a startup from Bangladesh, won the Social Innovation award at the 2nd Youth Co:Lab summit held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 2-5 April, 2019. Youth Co:Lab is the largest youth social entrepreneurship movement in Asia, supported...

Ace all-rounder Shakib al Hasan is set to skip Indian Premier League (IPL) to join the preparation camp of Bangladesh’s world cup preparation camp, scheduled to begin on April 22. BCB had sent a letter to...

A secluded mountain region thought to be free of plastic pollution is in fact blanketed by airborne microplastics on a scale comparable to a major city such as Paris, alarmed researchers reported Monday. Over a five-month...

A former refugee and the first black Muslim woman elected to Congress, Ilhan Omar embodied the American dream in her November victory but faces controversies fueled by her own words and President Donald Trump’s hostility toward...

Three hundred die-hard Game of Thrones fans laughed, howled and moaned their way through the premiere of the hugely popular fantasy saga’s last season in New York on Sunday. More than an hour before the episode...

The government has announced that it will expand a cooked school meal programme to reach 400,000 children of 2,000 schools at 16 upazilas. The programme was successfully piloted by the World Food Programme (WFP), said a...

Climate change protesters brought a bridge in London to a standstill on Monday and blocked major roads in the capital, kicking off days of planned civil disobedience events in cities around the world. More than a...

At least 147 people have been killed and 614 wounded in the offensive launched on April 4 by Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar to take the capital Tripoli, the World Health Organization said Monday. The clashes...