May2021

The UN Security Council will hold a virtual public meeting Sunday to address the soaring violence between Israel and the Palestinians, diplomats said Thursday. The United States, which had blocked an originally scheduled Friday session and...

Israel bombarded Gaza with artillery and airstrikes on Friday following a new barrage of rocket fire from the Hamas-run enclave, intensifying a conflict that has claimed more than 120 lives. The most intense fighting between Israel...

Madrid’s FITUR, one of the world’s biggest tourism fairs, is expecting to welcome 100,000 visitors from 60 countries when it opens in the Spanish capital next week, the organizers said Thursday. They said it would be...

Samsung Bangladesh and The Daily Star have launched a campaign through an interesting short video of a delivery man’s day-to-day life. The campaign name is ‘Shikhore Othar Prottoy – Stories of Life Maximizers.’ The campaign wants...

New York writer Raven Leilani has won this year’s £20,000 Dylan Thomas Prize. The prestigious Swansea University award is one of the world’s largest literary prizes for young writers. The 30-year-old was named the winner at...

US tech giant Amazon is to go on a hiring spree in the UK as online shopping continues to boom in the pandemic. Amazon is to hire 10,000 UK employees as it opens more warehouses in...

California was praised for acting swiftly to contain the coronavirus last spring. Now more than 31,000 people have died of the virus in the state. What went wrong? California was the first to issue a state-wide...

The much-anticipated reunion special of Friends has finally got a release date and trailer after a lengthy delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Friends: The Reunion will be available on the HBO Max streaming service from...

Users yet to accept new terms and conditions for the messaging platform WhatsApp will now receive “persistent” reminders ahead of the 15 May deadline. The changes relate primarily to the way businesses interact with customers, reports...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose personal finances are under scrutiny after several scandals, has failed to pay a small debt nearly seven months after a court order, documents showed Wednesday. An online database of civil...