British farmers take cows into supermarket for milk prices protest (video)

A group of farmers bring two of their cows to their local Asda supermarket in Stafford in the West Midlands yesterday protesting the price paid for their milk.
10 August 2015, 14:50 PM

Construction worker dies

A construction worker died when a large portion of a boundary wall collapsed on him in Kalinath Rayer Bazar area of Bhola municipality
9 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Move over hover board, here comes WalkCar

While Lexus teases us with hard to obtain hoverboards, a more practical kind of futuristic skateboard has been unveiled by an inventor in Japan: the WalkCar.
9 August 2015, 08:22 AM

Chechnya opens its first beach for women (video)

Authorities in Chechnya have opened the first women-only beach in the mostly Muslim region, outside the provincial capital Grozny.
8 August 2015, 10:40 AM

The Art of Foraging

When U.S. Air Force pilot Scott O' Grady was shot down over Serbia in 1995, he survived several days in the mountainous wilderness
7 August 2015, 18:00 PM

SNAPSHOT

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much
6 August 2015, 18:00 PM

QUIRKY SCIENCE

Organic molecules never previously observed in comets, a relatively varied structure on the surface but fairly homogeneous interior, organic compounds forming agglomerates rather than being dispersed in the ice: these are just some of first results provided by Philae on the surface of comet Churi.
6 August 2015, 18:00 PM

PEARLS OF WISDOM

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
6 August 2015, 18:00 PM

1 Minute Please

My passport (I want to always have the option to fly off), my phone (for very practical and not so practical (facebook) purposes) and my car.
6 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Wonders of The Rain

Under the blue velvet clouds
6 August 2015, 18:00 PM

5 Fun Indoor activities for A Rainy Day

It is very frustrating to wake up on a weekend and realise that all your plans with your friends have gone down the drain with heavy showers of rain.
6 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Enticed by Words

Claire Chambers is a Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of York, where she teaches twentieth and twenty-first century writing in English from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas. Claire has also published her works in journals such as Postcolonial Text and Contemporary Women's Writing, and is Co-Editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
6 August 2015, 18:00 PM

The Start Up Guru

After completing university education, most of the Bangladeshi youth rush to get jobs while very few of them take the risk of starting their own business.
6 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Changing Lives of One Another

Almeer Ahsan Asif, a graduate in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from American International University, Bangladesh (AIUB), always wanted to do something for those in need.
6 August 2015, 18:00 PM

A lift of shame?

Monir Hossain, 35, works as a senior executive in a firm. He used to travel to and from office in private cars.
6 August 2015, 18:00 PM

A Story of Woes and Wounds

Torrential rain-triggered landslides and deaths are nothing new to us. Every year, at the beginning of the rainy season, the port city is forced to face the same catastrophe.
6 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Dwelling in a Death Trap

Just a day after Eid-ul-Fitr, the country's biggest religious celebration, we woke up to the news of the unfortunate deaths of a woman and five children, in three separate incidents of landslides and wall collapse at Bayazid and Lalkhan areas of Chittagong due to heavy rainfall. Following the incident, the voice of concerned government officials could be heard over loudspeakers, as they requested people to move to safer places.
6 August 2015, 18:00 PM

MAILBOX

I am really grateful to the Star Weekend and the writer for writing about condition of the animals in the Bangladesh National Zoo (Published in July 31, 2015).
6 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Chinese jaywalkers made to wear green 'hats of shame'

Police in one Chinese city comes up with a novel way of tackling jaywalkers - making them wear green hats while helping to direct traffic.
6 August 2015, 15:38 PM

IS executes 19 girls for refusing to have sex with fighters

IS executes 19 women for refusing to have sex with its fighters, reports the dailymail online.
6 August 2015, 13:47 PM