Roof workers mending the roof and spire of Notre-Dame before it went up in flames last week have admitted flouting a smoking ban, amid claims of a string of safety lapses at Paris’ famed Gothic cathedral. Police also now believe […]
The world’s second largest colony of Emperor penguins has lost almost every chick for three years in a "catastrophic" breeding failure linked to melting sea ice. Antactica’s Halley Bay usually attracts 14,000 – 25,000 breeding pairs, or up to nine […]
Islamic State has released video of the Sri Lankan Easter Sunday suicide bombers swearing allegiance to militant group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Bombers had struck churches and hotels with foreign guests from “crusader” countries fighting against the militants, a statement […]
Antimicrobial resistant superbugs could be responsible for up to 80 per cent of deaths in Bangladesh’s biggest intensive care unit (ICU), a senior doctor has warned. Prfofessor Sayedur Rahman, chairman of the department of pharmacology at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medial University (BSMMU), […]
Intelligence agencies are now scrambling to understand why Sri Lanka, which had been relatively unscathed by Islamic State’s radicalism, was targeted in Sunday’s attacks. But for those who understand how the group works, it is perfectly obvious. After the […]
Former French prime minister Francois Fillon, whose 2017 bid for the presidency was torpedoed by a fake job scandal involving his wife, is to face trial over the allegations, a judicial source said on Tuesday. Investigating judges have recommended the rightwinger […]
An “air bear” helicopter flight has returned a polar bear to the Russian Arctic after he drifted more than 400 miles south on an ice floe. Fishermen ran into the two-year-old male bear last week near Tilichiki, an isolated village […]
Egypt’s constitution will be amended to allow President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to remain in office until 2030 after the government claimed to have won 89 per cent support in a much-criticised referendum. The Egyptian electoral commission said 11 per cent […]
Flight attendants for Hong Kong’s largest airline will be randomly inspected after staff were reported to be making off with in-flight goodies Ice cream cups, bottles of champagne, cutlery, wine glasses and bread are some of the items Cathay Pacific […]
A previously obscure Islamist extremist group known only for vandalising Buddhist statues has emerged as the prime suspect behind suicide bomb attacks that killed close to 300 in Sri Lanka. All seven bombers were Sri Lankan but the the scale […]