February2025

Japan’s economic growth slowed sharply in 2024, cabinet office data showed on Monday, although the rate for the fourth quarter beat market expectations thanks to strong exports. Annual GDP growth in the world’s fourth largest economy...

YouTube has evolved from a dinner party lark 20 years ago into a modern lifestyle staple poised to overtake US cable television in paid viewership. PayPal colleagues Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim conceived YouTube...

The first half of the current fiscal year 2024–25 has seen a sharp decline in foreign direct investment (FDI) in Bangladesh from July to December. Comparing the time to the same period of the previous fiscal...

The CPJ said that 85 journalists lost their lives in the Israeli-Hamas conflict, “all at the hands of the Israeli military,” with 82 of them being Palestinians. With six each, Sudan and Pakistan had the second-highest...

Hollywood producers and directors voted “Anora” the greatest movie of the year on Saturday, solidifying its position as the movie to beat at the next Oscars. Just one day after winning the top US critics’ prize,...

On Thursday, US President Donald Trump stated that he would love to see Russia rejoin the Group of Seven countries, claiming that Moscow’s expulsion was an error. Prior to its exclusion in 2014 after annexing Ukraine’s...

In the sixth exchange of a truce that nearly broke down this week, Gaza militants are scheduled to free three Israeli hostages on Saturday in return for 369 Palestinians held by Israel. Israel and Hamas have...

With a diverse cast, a unifying message, and support for international diplomacy, the most recent installment in the Captain America film series, which debuted in Hollywood on Tuesday, offers an image of the United States that...

On the opening day of the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday, British actress Tilda Swinton criticized the “state-operated” crimes of “greed-addicted governments” while accepting a special prize. After winning an honorary Golden Bear award on the...

After 13 days in the hospital, renowned Lalon Sangeet singer Farida Parveen has fully healed and returned home. At home, she will be supervised by her doctor. Ashish Kumar Chakraborty, the managing director of Universal Medical...