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Harry and Meghan’s wedding no tick-box exercise
14Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Harry and Meghan’s wedding no tick-box exercise

    Justin Welby has said Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding is no tick-box exercise and their love provides a model for the rest of the nation. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the Archbishop of Canterbury said: I am very, very sure after conversations that this is no tick-box exercise, we ought to get married in a church. They are due to marry at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in May. What Harry and Meghan Can Learn from the Queen’s Marriage There is a profound sense of commitment, of seriousness, both about faith and their lives together, which is quite inspirational. It’s important because people look at it and see a model of how two people commit their lives to one another before God in the presence of millions of people. It’s always a beautiful momen...
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Police hunt for homeless man who found €300,000 at Charles de Gaulle airport northeast of Paris
14Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Police hunt for homeless man who found €300,000 at Charles de Gaulle airport northeast of Paris

    Christmas came early for a French homeless man at Paris's main airport when he found an unlocked door at the offices of a cash handling company ... and walked away €300,000 ($350,000) richer. The man was rummaging through bins at Charles de Gaulle airport northeast of Paris last Friday when he checked a door at the Loomis cash management company and found it had been left open. Authorities have pored over surveillance footage that captured the incident, according to Le Parisien newspaper, which was the first to report the story on Wednesday. He pushes on the door … and appears surprised when it opens, the French daily recounted. Then the homeless man sets his suitcase down and enters the company’s offices. A picture taken on June 21, 2012 at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaull...
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London holds memorial for Grenfell fire victims
14Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

London holds memorial for Grenfell fire victims

    Survivors of a fire that killed 71 people six months ago in the Grenfell Tower social housing block in west London will join firefighters and members of the royal family at a national memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral on Thursday. The blaze broke out in the middle of the night on June 14 and quickly gutted the 24-storey building, which was home to a close-knit, multi-ethnic community living in a poor area within one of London's richest boroughs, Kensington and Chelsea. The disaster profoundly shocked Britain, highlighting extreme disparities in living conditions between rich and poor and fuelling a debate over whether disdain for social housing residents had played a part. "Hosting this service at St Paul's Cathedral, an iconic venue in London, recognizes the...
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Full list of Tory rebel MPs who defeated Theresa May’s key Brexit vote in Commons
14Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Full list of Tory rebel MPs who defeated Theresa May’s key Brexit vote in Commons

    The full list of the 11 Tory MPs who dealt Theresa May her humiliating first Commons defeat over Brexit has been revealed. The Prime Minister gas lost a crunch vote by 309 to 305, a majority of just four, to give MPs a meaningful vote on her final deal with Brussels. It is a blow to May as she jets to Brussels to meet 27 EU leaders as they are set to sign off the first-round deal she struck with the EU Commission on citizens’ rights, Northern Ireland and the divorce bill on Friday. The MPs included veteran Europhile Ken Clarke and ex-ministers Nicky Morgan and Anna Soubry alongside usually loyal MPs such as Antoinette Sandbach. Labour Brexiteers Dennis Skinner and Ronnie Campbell then pushed the vote over the line by backing the pro-Europeans’ amendment. The furious row ex...
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Theresa May to meet with EU27 hours after Commons blow
14Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Theresa May to meet with EU27 hours after Commons blow

    Theresa May is heading to Brussels for the third time in 10 days just hours after the embarrassment of her first Commons defeat on Brexit. After last week's Brussels deal, the Prime Minister will urge leaders of the other 27 EU countries to move on as quickly as possible to talks on post-Brexit trade deals. But the latest talks with EU leaders come at the end of a week of setbacks since the success of her early morning dash to Brussels and Brexit breakthrough last Friday. First the Government was hit by a backlash against David Davis's claims on Sunday that the deal was a "statement of intent" and a trade deal could be signed immediately after the UK leaves the EU. And now a Commons defeat which forces the Government to amend its EU (Withdrawal) Bill - a move which ministe...
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The unexpected benefit that retirement has on your sleep quality
13Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

The unexpected benefit that retirement has on your sleep quality

    You sleep better after you've retired, says new study We'd always assumed that sleep quality diminished as you got older, but it looks like that might not be the case after all... In fact, a new study has revealed that people sleep better and for longer after they reach retirement age. It seems as if giving up work leads to a reduction in sleep difficulties, researchers from the University of Turku in Finland have said. The team concluded this after analysing data from over 5,000 Finnish pensioners, who retired between the years 2000 and 2011. The volunteers answered a questionnaire about their sleep quality both before and after retirement, with surveys taking place every four years. And it seems that sleep quality improves after we give up work, and continues t...
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David Davis scrambles to salvage EU relations after damaging trust
13Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

David Davis scrambles to salvage EU relations after damaging trust

    David Davis on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show at the weekend when he made the comments about the UK’s agreement with the EU which will allow Brexit talks to progress to the next stage. David Davis has scrambled to salvage relations with Brussels after he was accused of damaging trust in the Brexit talks by making inflammatory comments. EU leaders have warned the British government against backtracking on promises made in Brussels after Davis suggested a Brexit breakthrough reached last week had no legal status. Senior EU figures voiced irritation on Tuesday with Davis’s claim over the weekend that the UK’s concessions in an agreement struck last week to move talks on were merely a statement of intent without legal backing. Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, warned that...
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Never make tea at work
13Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

Never make tea at work

    Office teabags can carry as many as 17 times more germs than a toilet seat, scientists have discovered. A study carried out by the Initial Washroom Hygiene came across these staggering results by analysing the bacterial readings of kitchen utensils and appliances. The average bacterial reading of an office teabag was 3,785, in comparison to only 220 for a toilet seat. Other pieces of kitchen equipment also stacked up highly in their findings, with the bacterial readings averaging at 2,483 on kettle handles, 1,746 on the rim of a used mug and 1,592 on a fridge door handle. Many of us wouldn’t think to wash our hands after simply opening the fridge door or before making a brew… but perhaps we should. A poll of 1,000 workers revealed that 80 per cent of people worki...
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Trump caught to lying: footage shows some accusers after trump claimed never met women
13Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

Trump caught to lying: footage shows some accusers after trump claimed never met women

    The Hill Footage shows Trump with some accusers after he claimed he ‘never met’ women Videos and photos showing President Trump with some of the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct are resurfacing after Trump in a tweet Tuesday said his accusers are "women who I don't know and/or have never met." "Despite thousands of hours wasted and many millions of dollars spent, the Democrats have been unable to show any collusion with Russia - so now they are moving on to the false accusations and fabricated stories of women who I don't know and/or have never met. FAKE NEWS!" Trump tweeted Tuesday. People magazine published a photo later in the day showing Trump standing alongside Natasha Stoynoff, a former foreign correspondent for the magazine, while at Trump's Mar-a-Lag...
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Gala Award Ceremony of Bangladesh StartUp Cup 2017 hosted in Dhaka: 57 businesses from all over Bangladesh receive awards
13Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Gala Award Ceremony of Bangladesh StartUp Cup 2017 hosted in Dhaka: 57 businesses from all over Bangladesh receive awards

Bangladesh StartUp Cup 2017 is a country wide StartUp competition and ecosystem building tool launched by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, India based impact investment firm Aaavishkar and BetterStories Limited. StartUp Cup business model is an innovative community based approach designed to increase the quality and quantity of entrepreneurs in any community. The aim of the competition is two-fold. On the one hand to identify and coach promising entrepreneurs from rural areas in Bangladesh who are addressing social challenges. By offering targeted training to these starting companies they are better able to present themselves to potential investors and are as such better positioned to launch successful companies. On the other hand to create an entrepreneurial (startup) ecos...
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