Florida fisherman rescued after treading water for 20 hours
Maybe it was his Navy training or his prayers, but a Florida fisherman is lucky to be alive after treading water in the Gulf of Mexico for 20 hours.
World's busiest airport couldn't give world's biggest airliner a gate
More than 500 passengers aboard the first Qatar Airways flight to Atlanta flew 7,400 miles from Doha, Qatar, without incident, but during the final few hundred yards of their journey they got caught up in an international dustup between airline heavyweights.
Proposed budget for FY17: Trade bodies slate money whitening
Different trade bodies on Friday expressed their concerns over the scope for whitening of black money by paying tax maintained in the proposed national budget for the next fiscal year saying that the scope would frustrate the honest taxpayers.
Proposed budget frustrates FBCCI
Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry president Abdul Matlub Ahmad on Friday termed the proposed budget for the fiscal 2016-17 a complex one which did not address any of the demands of the apex chamber.
BNP asks OSs to prepare organisational reports
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday asked its new organising secretaries to prepare reports on the latest organisational position underlining the role of grassroots leaders in the first-ever partisan elections to union parishads.
Sadeq Khan worked for the cause of countrymen’
Language movement hero, freedom fighter and journalist Sadeq Khan worked throughout his life for the cause of people, discussants at a citizens’ commemorative meeting in memory of the journalist said on Friday.
Drive for revenue before new fiscal: Muhith
The finance minister, AMA Muhith, at a post-budget press conference on Friday said that frantic drives to reach the huge revenue target would be undertaken before the beginning of the next financial year.
Does this doctor hold the secret to ending malaria?
From his extensive laboratory on the leafy campuses of the University of Oxford, Professor Adrian Hill is conjuring up a formula to protect us from disease.
UCLA shooting: 2 killed in murder-suicide
Two people were killed in a murder-suicide at UCLA on Wednesday, prompting a campuswide lockdown and forcing hundreds of terrified students to hide in buildings.
Pakistani woman dies after being set on fire for rejecting marriage proposal
An 18-year-old Pakistani schoolteacher died Wednesday from injuries after her body was set on fire for refusing a marriage proposal, police said.
