Adho mukha. Chaturanga. Uttanasana. These words are becoming part of the prison lingo in Argentina, thanks to a group of young yoga instructors who created the “Moksha – yoga in jail” project.

When Bill Gates famously suggested that “banking is necessary, banks are not” in the 1990s, it was seen as a deliberately provocative statement from one of the world's wealthiest men.

In remote parts of Nepal, young girls dread growing up. During their periods each month, girls and women are banished into menstrual huts, often located at the fringe of villages. Isolated in the name of tradition, they brave extreme weather and predators, including snakes, rapists and even death. Those who manage to remain in their communities are often too embarrassed to dry out their menstrual rag cloths after washing, thereby risking infection.

It all started when Edouard Claude Oussou witnessed an unsettling incident in Libreville, the capital of Gabon. A child was dropped off at school, waited a few minutes until his parent was far enough away, then took off in the opposite direction from his class. This fairly common scene illustrates a wider problem faced by Gabon's educational system, which has the

As communication technology develops, people have access to more information than ever before, literally at their fingertips. But how many of us can say that we are truly well informed?

As communication technology develops, people have access to more information than ever before, literally at their fingertips. But how many of us can say that we are truly well informed?

An Australian performance artist who was buried in a steel container under a busy road for 72 hours as part of a so-called dark arts festival is released from his self-imposed prison.

A scientist hopes the marvels of modern science can finally unravel the over 1,500-year old mystery of Loch Ness as he travels from the University of Otago in New Zealand to collect water samples in the Scottish lake, in the hope of finding out more about the creatures that inhabit its depths.

Practically every day you open your morning newspaper, go through your social media account or catch up on a news portal, chances are that you will read about an attack on a minority group by extremists. These minorities tend to be religious ones with Hindu families being the primary target. Attacks at Nasirnagar in Brahmanbaria in October 2016 and Thakurbari in Rangpur in November 2017 are recent examples. These incidents keep on repeating themselves because of the lack of punishment for the people involved.

Fake promotional gold bars apparently appeares so much like the real thing that someone broke into a western Michigan flooring shop to take them.

An anonymous bidder agrees to pay $3,300,100 at auction to have a private lunch with Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Police are investigating an off-duty FBI agent's apparently accidental shooting of a man when the agent did a backflip at a Colorado night club, local media reports on Sunday.

Once, we loved Nilkhet because we believed that we could find a rare book there even though it wasn't to be found in famous libraries

“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”

As global concerns continue to rise with 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags being produced every year around the globe, a number of eco-friendly companies come up with a seemingly wonderful idea: biodegradable bags.

For Mirpur residents, hardship while commuting has become an everyday affair; by now, even the media is probably tired of repeatedly covering the same news about the area.

Since the emergence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in mid-2014, the brutal ideology of the militant outfit has ensnared hundreds of young Bangladeshis, like it has brainwashed youth from across the globe.

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This is the story of my life. But before I get there I want to tell you another story—the story of a mali who lived all by himself in a far-off land.

A monkey snatched a bag containing Rs 1,40,000, from a man and his daughter as they were about to enter a bank in Agra of India.