Facebook has acquired LiveRail - a tech start-up that helps companies place more relevant ads in the videos that appear on their websites and apps. LiveRail also provides a real-time bidding platform for marketers looking to place ads on online...
Goldman Sachs group Inc said a contractor emailed confidential client data to a stranger's Gmail account by mistake, and the bank has asked a US judge to order Google Inc to delete the email to avert a ‘needless and massive’...
Iran and six world powers resumed talks on Thursday aimed at clinching a long-term deal later this month on the scope of Tehran's contested nuclear program, seeking to bridge still wide gaps in negotiating positions. The cost of failure could...
World shares were hovering around record highs on Thursday as markets prepared for a European Central Bank and US jobs data double-header. Investors were subdued before the two events, both usually big market movers. Stocks, benchmark bonds and the euro...
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Russia's Vladimir Putin on Thursday to encourage separatists in eastern Ukraine to reach an agreement with the Ukrainian authorities, the French president's office said. Hollande and Merkel stressed in a...
French actor Xavier Gallais, playing the Prince of Homburg, performs on stage during the rehearsal of the play ‘The Prince Of Homburg’ by German writer Heinrich Von Kleist, directed by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti from Itlay, during the Avignon Theatre Festival...
Monetary policy faces ‘significant limitations’ as a tool to counter financial stability risks, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Wednesday, adding that heading off the US housing bubble with higher interest rates would have caused major economic damage. Weighing...
US retail giant Target has asked customers not to bring guns into its stores, after Texas gun rights activists demonstrated in a Texas shop with rifles slung over their shoulders. CEO John Mulligan said guns were at odds with its...
Parliament on Thursday plunged into a pandemonium for a while over a heated debate on Bangladesh Liberation Force (BLF) and the role of JSD during 1972-1975. The House suddenly turned overheated when JSD MP Mainuddin Khan Badal took the floor...
The budget session of the 10th Parliament was prorogued on Thursday after 24 sittings that passed 37 bills, including two private members’ bills. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury read out the prorogation order of the President at 3:33 pm. This...
Euro zone firms expanded at their slowest rate in six months in June while cutting the prices they charge, surveys showed, signalling business conditions remain tricky as monetary authorities prepare to give a policy update. Business activity in France, the...
Passengers on a new Japanese railway service will be able to relax in specially-designed foot baths, it's been reported. The East Japan Railway Company is to run a new Shinkansen (bullet train) service between Shinjo and Fukushima in the north...
US stock index futures ticked up in light volume on Thursday after the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials closed at a record, ahead of a short session on Wall Street that is packed with economic data. *The key government...
US employment growth is expected to have continued at a solid clip in June, which would further dispel fears about the economy's health and underscore its momentum heading into the second half of 2014. Nonfarm payrolls probably increased by 212,000...
UK airports have said they are running as usual, amid tightening security following US warnings over a ‘credible threat’ of terrorism. Heathrow and Gatwick both said they were operating ‘as normal’. Staff at Manchester are swabbing hand luggage. Number 10...
The High Court has ordered the removal of all battery-run and motorized rickshaws from the streets of Dhaka and Chittagong. Five petitions had been filed with the HC, seeking permission to run such vehicles in the two City Corporation areas....
India's Supreme Court has said that women are increasingly misusing the tough anti-dowry law to harass their husbands and in-laws. The judges said the law was enacted to help women, but it was being used as ‘a weapon by disgruntled...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the nation will never forget BNP-Jamaat nexus for their violent acts in the name of resisting the January 5 elections. ‘The BNP-Jamaat alliance always unleashed such kinds of spiteful acts whether it was...
Argentina are playing far below their best, are over-reliant on Lionel Messi and must improve if they are to beat Belgium in their World Cup quarter-finals, according to Diego Maradona. ‘We still haven't got started,’ Maradona, who won the 1986...
Special Envoy to the Prime Minister and Chairman of Jatiya Party Hussein Mohammad Ershad on Thursday urged all to forget the past and establish real democracy by involving all. Addressing the closing sitting of the current budget session in parliament,...
Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab says it has shot dead a prominent MP in the capital, Mogadishu. Ahmed Mohamud Hayd was killed in a drive-by shooting after he left his hotel in a heavily policed area, witnesses said. His bodyguard...
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose marginally last week, but continued to suggest the labor market was steadily improving. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 315,000 for the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said that her government would not allow any further destructive politics in the country in the name of movement. “The movement of BNP-Jamaat is just killing people and arson, nothing else. We don’t want...
BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman on Thursday sent a legal notice to Awami League publicity and publication secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud giving him two weeks’ time to prove that he has deposited money in Swiss Bank. Barrister Kaiser Kamal sent...
Samsung Mobile Bangladesh has launched an exclusive ‘DelightEid Offer’ for its customers. With every purchase of a new Galaxy S5, customers can get an instant cashback and save at least Tk 7,000 to as much as Tk 15,000 during this...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Information and Communication Technology adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Thursday said he will use ICT to make Awami League (AL) stronger and more dynamic. "I want to make Awami League family stronger organisationally apart from the...
The Electoral Commission in the UK has found that the mayoral, local and European elections in May in Tower Hamlets in London were poorly resourced. The east London borough’s election count took more than five days to complete and is...
Prices of most of the shares in Australia’s capital markets rose on Wednesday. Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 jumped 1.1%, recovering from losses earlier in the week. On Monday, the market fell 0.9% on the final trading day of the financial year...
A top US military official says a key role of the American troops in Iraq is assessing whether the country’s security forces can hold together and whether its leaders are confident they can do their jobs. General Martin Dempsey, chairman...
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was detained and questioned by police on Tuesday as part of an influence-peddling investigation, prosecutors said, an unprecedented measure for any probe involving a former French president. Sarkozy appeared before a judge late on Tuesday,...
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