Family, celebrities, drama at funeral for Bobbi Kristina Brown
Family and friends said goodbye Saturday to Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of the late Whitney Houston and singer Bobby Brown, at a private funeral just north of Atlanta.
UK plane crash kills members of bin Laden family, police say
Three members of Osama bin Laden's family were among four people killed in a small plane crash in southern England, British police said.
Italian police seize money from Snoop Dogg at airport
Snoop Dogg left Italy $205,000 lighter on Saturday after police seized money from him at an airport in Calabria.
Poorly-coordinated policies, political instability affecting investment
Experts and businesses at a discussion on Saturday said lack of political stability and poorly-coordinated government policies were the major problems for boosting the country’s investment. They said persistent uncertainty on the political front, increasing corruption and outdated policies were hurting the investment scenario and an immediate government attention to the issues was needed to achieve 8 per cent growth.
No change in BNP’s stand on election-time neutral govt: Khaleda
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Saturday said that her party had not changed its stand on holding of election under a neutral government. ‘We want to contest election, but that election has to be held under a neutral government,’ she said at an opinion exchange meeting with newly elected BNP-backed office bearers of Rajshahi Bar Association at her Gulshan office.
AUG 15 KILLINGS : Objective was to take revenge for defeat of Pakistan: Hasina
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday said that the main objective of August 15, 1975 killings was to take revenge for the defeat of the Pakistani occupation forces in the War of Independence and for the establishment of a new country, Bangladesh.
LAND SWAP : National flag hoisted in 111 enclaves
Local administrations in Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Panchagarh and Nilphamari on Saturday morning hoisted the national flag and played the national anthem in 111 enclaves, which became the integral part of Bangladesh from midnight past Friday, to mark the land swap with India.
MtGox bitcoin chief Mark Karpeles arrested in Japan
Japanese police have arrested the CEO of the failed company MtGox, which was once the world's biggest exchange of the virtual currency, bitcoin.
Enclaves swapped in landmark India-Bangladesh border deal
India and Bangladesh have swapped control of some 160 small pockets of land on each other's territory.
MH370 search: Plane debris arrives in Paris
A piece of debris that experts believe could be from missing flight MH370 has arrived in Paris from the French island where it was found on Wednesday.
