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Google to buy Motorola Mobility for £7.6bn
Google Inc will buy phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion (7.6 billion pounds) to bolster adoption of its Android mobile software and compete with smartphone rival Apple Inc. In its biggest deal to date, Google said it would pay $40 per share in cash, a 63 percent premium to Motorola Mobility’s [...]
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Rocket glitch dooms Russian cargo spaceship
An unmanned Russian cargo ship carrying food and fuel to the International Space Station failed to reach orbit and burned up in the atmosphere shortly after launch on Wednesday, potentially affecting staffing of the orbital outpost. The accident occurred about five minutes after a Russian Progress rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan [...]
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WikiLeaks publishes more cables
The WikiLeaks organisation said on Thursday it was releasing tens of thousands of previously unpublished US diplomatic cables, some of which are still classified. “We will have released over 100,000 US embassy cables from around the world by the end of today,” said a message on WikiLeaks’ Twitter feed. The Twitter page is believed to [...]
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Rebels’ special forces are hunting for Gaddafi
Libyan rebels said they were sending in special forces units in their hunt for fugitive strongman Muammar Gaddafi, whose supporters are now pinned down in pockets of resistance in the capital, Tripoli. The rebel leadership announced it was planning to move from the eastern city of Benghazi, where the revolution to topple Gaddafi began six [...]
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53 died with Casino attack in Mexico
Armed men killed at least 51 people in an attack on a casino in northern Mexico that left the building ablaze with gamblers trapped inside, officials said on Thursday. People remained stuck inside the Casino Royale building in Monterrey, a prosperous city 140 miles from the Texas border that has suffered from increasing violence in [...]
International
Gaddafi calls on Libyans to march on Tripoli
Posted on 26 August 2011
Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi called on his supporters to march on Tripoli and ‘purify’ the capital of rebels, who he denounced as ‘”rats, crusaders and unbelievers’ in a defiant, angry speech that betrayed no hint of despondency. In a short audio broadcast on loyalist satellite TV channels Thursday, the fugitive leader called on all of Libya’s [...] Continue Reading
Bangladesh
Execute Bangabandhu killers
Posted on 26 August 2011
Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote leader and noted film actor Faruk Ahmed has said they will stage a ‘fasting protest’ to press for bringing six fugitives Bangabandhu killers back home for their execution. Faruk, a senior vice-president of the jote, said on Friday they would fast in front of the foreign diplomatic missions of the countries where [...] Continue Reading
Fine-Arts
A long trilogy in short space
Posted on 26 August 2011
A man prepares for prayers. In parallel scenes of Veils , a girl dresses up with eyeshades and lipstick. The first film of Monday evening starts with the Quran verses with calls to the predawn payers. After a short introduction by Taimoor N Sobhan, the short film began at the capital’s Radius Centre on Gulshan [...] Continue Reading
Technology
Free games boost gaming industry revenue
Posted on 26 August 2011
An increase in the number of people playing free games is providing the gaming industry with an additional source of revenue as gamers shell out millions for virtual goods and add-ons. Free games, once the bane of the gaming industry, are now proving lucrative for game developers who entice people to pay for virtual costumes [...] Continue Reading
Sports
Messi voted Uefa best player in Europe
Posted on 26 August 2011
Lionel Messi has been voted the inaugural winner of the Uefa Best Player in Europe Award in Monaco. The FC Barcelona forward finished ahead of club-mate Xavi Hernández and Real Madrid CF’s Cristiano Ronaldo in a poll of sports journalists representing each of the Uefa member associations. Messi, the overwhelming winner, collected his prize at [...] Continue Reading
Lifestyle
Americans have less respect for smokers than for obese
Posted on 26 August 2011
Americans are biased against smokers and the obese, but the United States saves its highest disrespect for those who light up, according to a Gallup poll published on Friday. One in four Americans report having less respect for a person who smokes, compared to 12 percent of Americans who say they have less respect for [...] Continue Reading
Health
Fake doctor jailed in city
Posted on 26 August 2011
A magistrate has sentenced a fake doctor to two years in jail and fined him Tk 300,000 in the capital. Magistrate A H M Anwar Pasha of a Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-run mobile court handed down the punishment hours after his arrest on Saturday. Golam Kibria, 45, was arrested at 11 am from his chamber [...] Continue Reading
Show-biz
Reality star Kim Kardashian weds Kris Humphries
Posted on 26 August 2011
Reality star Kim Kardashian married basketball player Kris Humphries on Saturday in a lavish made-for-TV wedding following a whirlwind courtship. Kardashian, 30, one of the highest-earning reality TV stars, and New Jersey Nets player Humphries, 26, exchanged vows in a ceremony on a private estate in the Southern California hill town of Montecito, her spokeswoman [...] Continue Reading
Politics
JCD president Tuku released
Posted on 26 August 2011
Sultan Salahuddin Tuku, president of pro-BNP student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), has been freed from Dhaka Central Jail after he secured bail from the High Court. The jail superintendent Partha Gopal Banik told that Tuku was released on Thursday afternoon. JCD’s Dhaka University unit senior joint convenor Obaidul Haque Nasir was also released the [...] Continue Reading
Business
Apple shares fall after Jobs quits
Posted on 26 August 2011
Shares of Apple Inc fell more than 4 percent in pre-market trading on Thursday, a day after its iconic CEO Steve Jobs resigned, leaving right-hand man Tim Cook to take on the mantle. The resignation sparked worries that his health has deteriorated further. Jobs has survived a rare form of pancreatic cancer. “While the news [...] Continue Reading
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Google to buy Motorola Mobility for £7.6bn
Posted on 26 August 2011
Google Inc will buy phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion (7.6 billion pounds) to bolster adoption of its Android mobile software and compete with smartphone rival Apple Inc. In its biggest deal to date, Google said it would pay $40 per share in cash, a 63 percent premium to Motorola Mobility’s [...] Continue Reading
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Rocket glitch dooms Russian cargo spaceship
Posted on 26 August 2011
An unmanned Russian cargo ship carrying food and fuel to the International Space Station failed to reach orbit and burned up in the atmosphere shortly after launch on Wednesday, potentially affecting staffing of the orbital outpost. The accident occurred about five minutes after a Russian Progress rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan [...] Continue Reading
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WikiLeaks publishes more cables
Posted on 26 August 2011
The WikiLeaks organisation said on Thursday it was releasing tens of thousands of previously unpublished US diplomatic cables, some of which are still classified. “We will have released over 100,000 US embassy cables from around the world by the end of today,” said a message on WikiLeaks’ Twitter feed. The Twitter page is believed to [...] Continue Reading
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Rebels’ special forces are hunting for Gaddafi
Posted on 26 August 2011
Libyan rebels said they were sending in special forces units in their hunt for fugitive strongman Muammar Gaddafi, whose supporters are now pinned down in pockets of resistance in the capital, Tripoli. The rebel leadership announced it was planning to move from the eastern city of Benghazi, where the revolution to topple Gaddafi began six [...] Continue Reading
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53 died with Casino attack in Mexico
Posted on 26 August 2011
Armed men killed at least 51 people in an attack on a casino in northern Mexico that left the building ablaze with gamblers trapped inside, officials said on Thursday. People remained stuck inside the Casino Royale building in Monterrey, a prosperous city 140 miles from the Texas border that has suffered from increasing violence in [...] Continue Reading
