Probashbangla24 online Desk : A French photographer at the heart of a rape scandal that saw this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature postponed has been handed a two-year prison sentence. On Monday a Swedish court found Jean-Claude Arnault, 72, guilty of raping a woman in an apartment in Stockholm in 2011. Arnault, who is well known…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : The announcement for the Medicine Prize risks being eclipsed by a Stockholm court verdict against Jean-Claude Arnault, a man with close ties to the Academy who has been charged with rape. The announcement on Monday of the Nobel Medicine Prize opens this year’s amputated awards season, with no Literature Prize for the…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : A stressful long-haul flight from Glasgow to Australia with a 10-week-old baby was the inspiration for the BBC’s latest big-hitting Sunday night drama. Filling the gap left by the smash-hit series Bodyguard, The Cry is a four-part psychological thriller starring Doctor Who’s former assistant Jenna Coleman. The “excruciating” scene on the plane…
Probashbangla24 online Desk :A woman in the far east of Russia has told the BBC she recognises one of the key suspects in the Salisbury attack as a military intelligence officer. The woman identified him immediately from photographs as Anatoliy Chepiga, a decorated “Hero of Russia”. Her assertion supports research by the Bellingcat online investigations…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : A powerful typhoon pummelled Japan’s southern island of Okinawa Saturday, injuring at least 17, as weather officials warned the storm would rip through the Japanese archipelago over the weekend. Typhoon Trami, packing maximum gusts of 216 kilometres (134 miles) per hour near its centre, was forecast to hit the mainland early Sunday…
Probashbangla24 online Desk :US President Donald Trump took his enthusiasm for his detente with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to new heights on Saturday, declaring at a rally with supporters that “we fell in love” after exchanging letters. Trump and Kim have said they want to work toward denuclearizing the Korean peninsula, holding an…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : After lengthy delays, an $8.2 billion revamp of a colonial-era rail line snaking from the Arabian Sea to the foothills of the Hindu Kush has become a test of Pakistan’s ability to rethink signature Chinese “Silk Road” projects due to debt concerns. The rail megaproject linking the coastal metropolis of Karachi to…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said Malaysia will no longer support the leadership of Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi because of her handling of the Rohingya crisis in her country. In an interview with Turkish international news channel TRT World, Dr Mahathir said Suu Kyi seemed to be a…