This week’s Mad Genius is General Aladeen himself. Sasha Baron Cohen is the English actor, comedian and screenwriter widely known for creating and portraying four fictional characters: Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno Gehard and Admiral General Aladeen.

"Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth."

Hillary Clinton is leading by 45 percent in the recent polls. The Upshot's elections model suggests that Hillary Clinton is favoured to win the presidency, based on the latest state and national polls.

“Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.”— Erol Ozan, writer and scientist

"No garlic or garlic-scented items allowed, including perfume," read the house rules of Count Dracula's castle to ensure that Halloween night guests cannot avoid the vampire.

A Tokyo burger joint gets its customers in on the US election action by asking them to choose the better burger from two representing US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton.

Tucked away on a coastal Hong Kong hillside is a different type of recycling point -- here, thousands of unwanted statues of deities look out to sea, gathered and repaired after their owners discard them.

It was the end of the Second World War. Bennito Mussolini's government collapsed in 1943 and with it fell down the glorious Italian film industry.

Women in Bangladesh have always been warned not to go out late at night, because it is unsafe.

I liked the photo feature by Joya Korem titled 'Caring for Special Children' published in the Star Weekend on September 23, 2016.

“Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths.” — Muhammad Ali, boxer

The 15 million residents of Dhaka have access to only about seventy public toilets. Most of us are lucky enough to use clean toilets at home, but for more than 5.5 million floating people in Dhaka, these 70 toilets are their only refuge.

For at least a billion years of the distant past, planet Earth should have been frozen over but wasn't. Scientists thought they knew why, but a new modeling study from the Alternative Earths team of the NASA Astrobiology Institute has fired the lead actor in that long-accepted scenario.

The world has become smaller with new discoveries. Human beings no longer live in an insular world. It is a boon for modern civilisation.

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”

For a very long time, most of us thought Bangladesh was better known for its folk art forms. At least when it came to the art of dancing, the classical ones we would recognise and associate with would all be from India- Bharatanatyam from South India, Odissi from Odissa, Manipuri from Manipur, Kathak from North India and so on.

Asadul, a bus driver of the Dhaka-Comilla route, just reached Sayedabad after a five-hour drive from Comilla.

Passing through a crowd in our national stadium seems to be an aggressive kind of movement- it's like getting into a war as people push and shove their way through.

“Everyday is a brand new day,” believes this week’s mad genius. Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE known professionally by his stage name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor. Before starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for the new wave rock band The Police from 1977 to 1984.

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