Two women and a child were trampled to death and 10 other people injured in a rush for receiving clothes distributed as Zakat by a private organisation in Barisal city on Friday. Of the deceased, two were identified as Firoza,...
At least two people were killed and 10 others injured when a bus rammed into a private car at Kashiganj at Tarakanda upazila in Mymensingh district on Friday. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Police said the...
Britain's state-rescued Royal Bank of Scotland posted a surge in profits on Friday, boosting its share price, but warned over future earnings. Net profit almost tripled to £1.425 billion ($2.42 billion, 1.8 billion euros) in the six months to the...
Shares in French luxury products giant LVMH fell sharply in early trading on Friday after the company reported disappointing results. The shares were down 5.66 per cent to 133.2 euros in an overall French stock market which was down 0.71...
Internet retail titan Amazon reported a money-losing quarter despite impressive growth in sales, sending shares plummeting by more than 10 per cent. The Seattle-based firm said that it had a net loss of $126 million in the quarter that ended...
Facebook stock jumped to record highs Thursday as strong earnings from the leading social network sparked fresh buying. The shares closed up 5.2 per cent at $74.98, well above the record of $72.03 hit on March 10. The rise lifted...
Asian markets mostly rose Friday following another record close on Wall Street, while the euro dug in against the dollar and yen after rebounding from multi-month lows. Investors were still upbeat after Thursday's strong manufacturing data from China as well...
Europe's main stock markets dropped at the start of trading on Friday, with London's benchmark FTSE 100 index down 0.32 per cent to 6,799.54 points. Frankfurt's DAX 30 lost 0.24 per cent to 9,770.24 points and in Paris the CAC...
Oil prices were mixed in Asia Friday as soft gasoline demand in the United States offset upbeat manufacturing data from China, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for September delivery dipped eight cents to $101.99 a barrel in...
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday left on a five-nation tour of Latin America and the Caribbean that will reportedly see a major Japanese bank extend a $500 million oil exploration loan to Brazil. The visit comes as Chinese...
Japanese inflation eased in June due to the slowing impact on prices from a sales tax hike and surging imports, official data showed Friday, figures that are likely to stoke renewed questions about Tokyo's war on deflation. The Bank of...
Russia's state-held oil giant Rosneft said on Friday it was working on a plans to reduce the effects of Western sanctions over Ukraine, and announced a five-fold jump in second-quarter earnings. ‘Together with our partners -- the world's leading oil...
The International Monetary Fund warned Thursday that geopolitical risks in Ukraine and the Middle East are looming over a global economy already hit by slowdowns in the US and China. After ‘negative surprises’ from the United States and China, the...
US airlines are flying high again, reporting surging profits and returning cash to shareholders as they reap the benefits of an industry-wide merger wave wrought by the financial crisis. The biggest US airline by revenue, American Airlines, Thursday notched its...
An Indian investment banker turned wildly successful novelist is taking a career turn in Bollywood, with a screenplay he says will tackle social issues in the same vein as the books that made him a youth icon. Chetan Bhagat shot...
World shares dipped on Friday having clawed their way back towards all-time highs after a week of largely reassuring economic signals but rising political tensions. European markets opened with the region's main bourses down 0.1 to 0.6 per cent as...
Veteran journalist and former MP AN Mahfuza Khatun Baby Maudud has passed away after a battle with cancer. She died at a Dhaka hospital on Friday. She was 66. Baby Maudud had been working as the bdnews24.com social affairs editor....
The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today. It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern...
In an effort to keep his poll promise of zero-tolerance policy on graft, Prime Minister of india Narendra Modihas directed the Home and Law Ministry to fast-track trial in criminal cases pending against Members of Parliament. According to Association for...
The news about deadly crashes linked to a faulty ignition switch, followed by wave upon wave of recalls, did not bode well for General Motors dealers earlier this year. It conjured visions of worried, frustrated drivers pouring onto lots like...
Britain's BSkyB (BSY.L) has agreed to pay $9 billion to buy Rupert Murdoch's pay-TV companies in Germany and Italy, taking its hunt for growth into Europe by creating a media powerhouse with 20 million customers. BSkyB, in which Murdoch's 21st...
John Malone's Liberty Media Corp started the process of spinning off its cable assets through a stock dividend to its shareholders to form a new listed company called Liberty Broadband. Liberty Broadband, in a regulatory filing, said the stock dividend...
McDonald’s Corp has suspended sales of chicken nuggets and other items in Hong Kong after it said it imported products from Shanghai Husi Food, the US-owned Chinese company at the center of a food safety scare in China. McDonald's said...
Royal Bank of Scotland posted a surprise 1 billion pound ($1.7 billion) pretax profit for the second quarter thanks to a turnaround in losses from bad loans, prompting it to release earnings a week early. The numbers far exceeded analysts'...
Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox said on Friday it would renew a share buyback program using the proceeds from its partial exit from European pay-TV, regardless of any acquisitions the media group undertakes. The company made the pledge in a...
Russia's central bank unexpectedly raised its main interest rate by a half point to 8.0 per cent on Friday, warning that geopolitical tensions were increasing inflationary risks. ‘At the same time, inflation risks have increased due to a combination of...
Loans to the private sector in the euro area, a gauge of economic health, fell year-on-year in June, but by less than in May, the European Central Bank said Friday. The volume of loans to private businesses and households declined...
China has approved the setting up of three private banks, including one by Internet giant Tencent, the industry regulator said Friday, in a long-awaited economic reform aimed at bringing competition to state banking giants. Previously, China had just two privately-owned...
Britain's Lloyds Banking Group said on Friday that it expects to be fined for its role in the Libor rate-rigging scandal. LBG said in statement that it had noted media coverage regarding potential settlements with a number of government agencies...
Britain's economy grew strongly in the second quarter, overtaking the size it achieved before the global financial crisis, data showed on Friday in the latest sign of robust recovery. The latest figures, along with a sharp fall in unemployment to...
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