KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 (AFP): Malaysians were set to get a new first lady Saturday when widowed Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi gets remarried after finding a second love with his former sister-in-law. Only close family members were expected to...
WASHINGTON, Jun 9 (Xinhua): Thousands of flights were delayed and some were canceled Friday across the United States, particularly on the east coast, due to a computer failure at the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). FAA spokeswoman Diane Spitaliere said...
GAZA, Jun 9 (Reuters): Palestinian militants attacked a border crossing between central Gaza and Israel Saturday, sparking a fierce gun battle, local residents and militants said. Several militants tried to enter the crossing at Kissufim after approaching in their vehicle.Israeli...
NAIROBI, Jun 9 (AFP): Somali founding president Aden Abdulle Osman Friday died in a Kenyan hospital after a long illness, marking the end of a man who quietly retired after he was ousted, officials said. He was 99. Osman, who...
PARIS, Jun 9 (AFP): French voters overseas cast the first ballots Saturday in a parliamentary election predicted to hand a resounding majority to President Nicolas Sarkozy and his ambitious reform programme. Just a month after the right-winger's victory over the...
ISLAMABAD, Jun 9 (AFP): Three people were killed and five wounded when a roadside bomb blasted a passing bus in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, officials said Saturday. Police said the bomb was detonated by remote control late Friday in the...
Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.In San...
New charges for online extras are sharply raising the price serious video gamers pay for Xbox 360 games, a profitable move by Microsoft Corp., but one that could alienate some fans.With more than 6 million users, Microsoft's Xbox Live online...
In a small abandoned warehouse in an industrial area north of Denver, local bands Bad Weather California, Born in the Flood and Meese are playing a very unusual gig.At first glance it seems pretty straightforward. The warehouse contains the headquarters...
Bill Gates attended to a bit of unfinished business last Thursday. Gates, who dropped out of Harvard and co-founded Microsoft Corp to become the world's richest person, stopped off at his former stomping grounds to collect an honorary law degree."We...
A Web site that enables its users to store photos and video for inclusion in MySpace profiles will become a part of the popular online hangout.MySpace's parent, News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media, agreed to acquire Photobucket Inc. just weeks after...
Marc SaltzmanOne of Agatha Christie's most beloved mysteries is now an interactive adventure with "Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile," a new casual PC game that combines the thrill of a murder mystery with the challenge of a "Where's Waldo"-like...
FE SpecialREMEMBER how much excited (probably) you were during examinations when you were in primary school ? How much you enjoyed for doing good in those days? How much enthusiasm you had to learn anything new? When you are grown...
M A IslamWHEN I was in the university, my teacher observed I was not quick enough in writing the answers in the examination hall. One day he called me after the test and suggested to practise two-minute writing theory. That...
H.M.Sajibur RahmanTHE vivid and colourful curriculum opening ceremony of Jatiyo Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Trishal, Mymensing, was held in June 3, 2007 at the campus of the newly established university. It was very colorful and attractive. Many female students...
William McKenzieFIVEapplications and not one interview. This was the result of my attempt to land a summer internship at a top investment bank. Yet my experiences are not unique. In the search for summer employment, the overwhelming majority of my...
Nahid Kaiser TomaDR. Maleka Begum chats with a few female writers about her seminal work 'Nirbachito Begum: Ordho-shotabdir Shomajchitra (1947-2000)' (Selected Begum: The Social Picture of Half of the Century, 1947-2000). This gigantic work is divided into three volumes. Ornamented...
FE ReportA term loan agreement for Tk 500 million (50 crore) was signed between Pubali Bank Limited (PBL) and Delta BRAC Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DBHFCL) at PBL head office in the city recently.PBL Managing Director Helal Ahmed Chowdhury and...
HEILIGENDAMM, Jun 8 (AFP): Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a joint Russian-US base to detect missile attacks in a startling proposal to overcome a crisis between the two countries. Putin offered President George W Bush the joint use of...
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon, Jun 8 (AFP): Lebanese tanks and artillery continued Friday to pound the strongholds of Islamists holed up inside a refugee camp, as the authorities claimed the militants wanted to target UN peacekeeping forces in the country. The...
COLOMBO, Jun 8 (AFP): Sri Lanka's Supreme Court Friday ordered a halt to the eviction of minority ethnic Tamils from the capital, as rights activists attacked the use of "collective punishment" to fight Tamil rebels. The Supreme Court intervention followed...
SEOUL, Jun 8 (AP): North Korea fired two short-range missiles into its coastal waters Thursday, apparently as part of regular military drills, South Korean military officials said amid a stalemate in international talks on the communist country's nuclear weapons. The...
WASHINGTON, Jun 8 (AFP): A sweeping immigration reform drive collapsed in the US Senate Thursday, leaving 12 million illegal immigrants in limbo and dealing a stinging blow to President George W Bush. On a night of high political drama, Democratic...
BAGHDAD, Jun 8 (AFP): At least 49 people have died in a two-day surge of violence in Iraq, including 16 in two car bombs Friday, as an American general admitted the US military surge would likely only have temporary impact....
KATHMANDU, Jun 8 (AFP): Nearly six out of 10 Nepalese want the monarchy to be abolished in the Himalayan nation, but the same number are unclear about the relevance of upcoming elections, a survey showed Friday. The opinion poll, carried...
HAVANA, Jun 8 (AFP): Ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro met Thursday with leftist Bolivian President Evo Morales, who went home immediately after a lightning "working visit," Cuban television said. As Morales was seen off at Jose Marti international airport by...
BANGKOK, Jun 8 (AFP): Thailand's army-backed government announced Friday that it had lifted a ban on deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra's website, saying it no longer posed a security threat. The junta blocked the Hi-Thaksin website a few days before the...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Jun 8 (AFP): A policeman and four Taliban militants were killed in a gunfight after rebels attacked a police post in southern Afghanistan, police said Friday. The incident happened late Thursday in troubled Zabul province, a hotbed of...
England extended their total to a healthy 370 on the second morning at Old Trafford with Ian Bell falling three runs short of a seventh Test century, but his 97 was central to turning the innings around from a precarious...
Rahmatganj MFS caused a big upset beating title contender Sheikh Russell KC by a solitary goal in the day's lone return match of the B League at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city Friday, reports UNB. With the result,...
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