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Bird hits passenger jet landing at Heathrow leaving a large bloody dent on its nose
14Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Bird hits passenger jet landing at Heathrow leaving a large bloody dent on its nose

    A bird has struck a passenger jet leaving a large dent in its nose as it was coming in to land at Heathrow. The EgyptAir flight from Cairo was grounded for 21 hours after the incident before a replacement nose could be located. Pictures of the damage show a large exposed dent in the Boeing 737-800 complete with blood and feathers. The aircraft, which had 71 passengers on board, managed to safely land at the airport on Friday, reports the Aviation Herald. Amir Hashim, a Senior Procurement Specialist for Egyptair, posted these images on to Facebook. Mr Hashim wrote alongside the photographs:"SU-GDZ operating yesterday evening's MS779 arrival suffered a bird strike on approach. "The damage caused is clearly evident and SU-GDZ will be grounded until a new radome is fitted. Now...
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Turkey carries out airstrikes after deadly bombing
14Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Turkey carries out airstrikes after deadly bombing

    Turkey's air force hit Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq Monday, hours after a suicide car bombing in the capital killed 37 people and heightened tensions with the Kurdish rebels. Nine F-16s and two F-4 jets raided 18 positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK in the northern Iraq, including the Qandil mountains where the group's leadership is based, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Targets hits consisted of ammunition depots, bunkers and shelters. Police meanwhile carried out raids in the southern city of Adana, detaining suspected PKK rebels the agency reported. The private Dogan news agency said at least 36 suspects were taken under custody. Fifteen suspected Kurdish militants were also detained in Istanbul, Anadolu said. Health Minister Mehmet Muezzin...
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North Korea claims it could wipe out Manhattan with a hydrogen bomb
14Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

North Korea claims it could wipe out Manhattan with a hydrogen bomb

    North Korea claimed Sunday that it could wipe out Manhattan by sending a hydrogen bomb on a ballistic missile to the heart of New York, the latest in a string of brazen threats. Although there are many reasons to believe that Kim Jong Un’s regime is exaggerating its technical capabilities, the near-daily drumbeat of boasts and warnings from Pyongyang underlines the regime’s anger at efforts to thwart its ambitions. Our hydrogen bomb is much bigger than the one developed by the Soviet Union, DPRK Today, a state-run outlet that uses the official acronym for North Korea, reported Sunday. If this H-bomb were to be mounted on an inter-continental ballistic missile and fall on Manhattan in New York City, all the people there would be killed immediately and the city would burn do...
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Humans living on moon by 2026
13Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Technology

Humans living on moon by 2026

    "You are here to help humanity become a spacefaring species." So said the opening line of a brochure for a workshop that took place in August 2014. It was a meeting of some of the greatest scientists and professionals in the space business and beyond, including gene editing maverick George Church and Peter Diamandis from the XPrize Foundation. The workshop's goal: to explore and develop low-cost options for building a human settlement on the moon. "You are here to make this moonshot a reality," said the brochure. The history-making Apollo missions would have cost $150 billion by today's standards. With new ways of thinking, it might be possible to set up a lunar station for $10 billion (£7bn). NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay helped organize the meeting, and then he edited ...
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How doing nothing can make you more successful
13Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

How doing nothing can make you more successful

    In today's work-obsessed society, we have this belief that we have to constantly be doing something in order to be successful. But what if the opposite were true? As Stanford psychologist Emma Seppala argues in her new book, "The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success," we can be more effective if we take time to do more of nothing. It's a radical idea, but one that's actually backed up by research. We're most creative when we're less focused. For a 2011 study, researchers gave 428 students questionnaires to classify them as either a morning or an evening person, and then gave them logic problems in either the morning or late afternoon. To the researchers' surprise, the morning people performed better in the late afternoon, whereas...
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Osborne Signals More Spending Cuts In Budget
13Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Osborne Signals More Spending Cuts In Budget

    The Chancellor is warning of more austerity in this week's budget as he claims the country is facing a "dangerous cocktails of risks". George Osborne has written an opinion piece in the Sun on Sunday newspaper in which he credits the Government's long-term economic plan for shaving the deficit, shoring up the banking sector and achieving record employment. But he says the world is "facing its most uncertain period since the Great Recession ... so in the Budget next week we need to take more bold decisions". The Chancellor says his hand has been forced by economic headwinds out of his control: the slowdown in China, the drop in oil prices, instability in the Middle East and interest rates falling around the globe. He suggests they have stunted growth in developing nations a...
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Crash Pilots had psychotic depressive symptoms
13Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Crash Pilots had psychotic depressive symptoms

The report into the Germanwings crash which was deliberately caused by a co-pilot has recommended more medical checks for crew. One hundred and fifty people died when co-pilot Andreas Lubitz flew flight 9525 into a mountain-side in the French Alps after locking the pilot out of the cockpit. French investigators have been holding a news conference in France this morning as the report into the crash's cause is published. It comes after some of the families of the victims of the crash, who had advance sight of the report, voiced concerns. Investigators told the news conference a doctor recommended that Lubitz should be treated in a psychiatric hospital two weeks before the disaster. Lubitz had begun to show symptoms that could be consistent with a psychotic depressive episode in December 2...
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Action against Bangladesh Bank says Finance Minister
13Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Action against Bangladesh Bank says Finance Minister

    The finance ministry will take action against Bangladesh Bank for not formally informing the government about the bank’s $101 million cyber heist, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said today. The central bank has showed audacity by not informing this to the government, Muhith told reporters at his ministry office this afternoon. The minister came up with the remark after hackers stole $101 million last month from a Bangladesh Bank account at New York Federal Reserve Bank. I will talk with the prime minister within one or two days in this regard, he said. Meanwhile, Banking Division Secretary M Aslam Alam said that they will hold an emergency meeting with the central bank’s board members on Tuesday (March 15) on this issue. He informed this to the reporters after holding a meetin...
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Seven easy tricks to get rid of belly bloat
12Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

Seven easy tricks to get rid of belly bloat

    7 Easy Tricks to Get Rid of Belly Bloat Bloating, when excess gas builds up in the digestive tract, is an uncomfortable state that sometimes goes away when you wake up the next morning and your belly is flat again. Stomach gas is more than an inconvenience when you can’t zip your jeans; it is often painful. If you don’t want to wait a few hours to feel like a normal human being again, it’s important to keep a few tips in mind. 1) Don’t drink too much water before you work out You have to stay hydrated while you exercise, but drinking too much water will certainly make your belly big. The recommended amount of H2O is between 16 and 24 ounces an hour before you hit the gym. Sixty minutes is enough time for the body to absorb the fluid and get rid of what it doesn’t need. Dri...
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EU referendum: What will Brexit mean for 2m Britons who are tax residents abroad
12Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

EU referendum: What will Brexit mean for 2m Britons who are tax residents abroad

    Should Britain choose to leave the European Union (EU), British citizens owning houses in France could end up paying an extra 10% in tax should they decide to sell their properties. EU citizens wishing to buy or sell a property in France face a 39.5% tax. Aspiring buyers have to first pay the tax in France, which can then be offset when it comes to paying taxes in their native countries, as long as it is part of the 28-country bloc. The tax comprises capital gains tax of 19%, a surcharge of up to 6% and social charges of up to 15.5%, equating to a maximum of 36.5%. The French capital gains tax and surcharge paid can then be offset against the tax due in the UK at up to 28%, while French social charges cannot be offset, meaning up to an extra 3% worth of tax is payable in t...
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