A dozen beasts are disqualified from this year’s Saudi “camel beauty contest” because their handlers used Botox to make them more handsome.

Emotional Intelligence for Success

As the rickshaw, painted bright with a distorted Bengal tiger and even more distorted images of Dhallywood stars, breaks through the sea of other rickshaws, the kites appear almost suddenly through the narrow old Dhaka skyline.

Animals mean more to the big city slicker. They fulfill the completely ordinary, wholly elusive need for attachment the nine-to-fiver so often experiences in the lonely metropolis. Living in close proximity to these creatures enables the human to learn humility, honesty, sensitivity. To respect and be respected. Because you can fool a man, but you can never fool an animal.

A museum is meant to be a gateway—a magical door into another world at a different time and place. For those (like this writer) who are not avid readers and are more visual learners, there are not many places better than museums to learn, experience and marvel at the wonders of the world.

Finally, the hunger strike of non-MPO teachers has come to an end following the assurances of the Prime Minister.

Finally, the hunger strike of non-MPO teachers has come to an end following the assurances of the Prime Minister.

Authorities say a Virginia man whose cat was killed by two Labrador retrievers pursue their owner and fatally shoots the dogs.

The 20-year-old Florida man who claimed the $451 million Mega Millions jackpot chooses to get $282 million at once instead of more in annual instalments.

First it was monkeys and rabbits. Now a cow has forced flights to be diverted from Ahmedabad airport and Indian authorities said Friday human negligence may have had a role.

I used to fly fanushes when I was growing up. It began innocently enough. Me. My friends. We would sneak up to the rooftop in the dead of the night and slowly light one up.

The neighbourhood around Dhanmondi Lake is a quiet residential area. On each side of the narrow roads, there are only residential buildings, a few grocery stores and the tranquil greenery of Dhanmondi Park.

The editor's note of the Star Weekend issue of January 5 was a wonderful piece of writing to wrap up the news that has gone by last year. The past year has left many indelible impressions for us to ponder and we all have to do a little soul-searching in order to face the year ahead.

Question paper leaks were a regular trend in the past and it has become of great concern at present in our country. Earlier, the leaks were mainly of SSC, HSC and BCS exam questions.

Time travel, this fascinating concept of - moving between different points in time- has always been a popular topic for science fiction enthusiasts for decades.

Back in school, my friends and I had no access to the internet. This was due to our parents' steadfast belief that the internet was the root of all evil in this world.

He was grinning from ear to ear as I headed towards him, his deep-set eyes beaming with joy. All of a sudden, that look of love vanished. He had spotted the man walking beside me, my “bestie”, laughing deliriously over some awful joke I'd just cracked.

Propping up a hood against a mild December chill, a lone figure strides forward along the train platform.

We live in parallel worlds—one in which everything seems to happen in a single moment and another in which nothing seems to happen at any moment.

A Japanese researcher develops -- by accident-- a new type of glass that can be repaired simply by pressing it back together after it cracks.