When you think about a martial arts hero of Hollywood, you think of Bruce Lee. Likewise, when you think of a martial arts hero of Dhallywood—the name of Rubel pops up. We have all seen him in fantastic action with the baddies in the Bangladeshi films. Masum Parvez Rubel is not only a martial artist but also an actor, a ...

Cricketer Shahadat Hossain on Tuesday was freed on bail in a child torturing case. A Dhaka court granted the bail for the suspended national team pacer, days after his wife Jesmin Jahan alias Nitya was freed on bail. Deputy attorney general Sheikh AKM Moniruzzaman told Prothom Alo that a bench, comprising Justice M Enyetur Rahim and Justice Md Amir Hossain, ...

Schools in Beijing are closed and outdoor construction halted as the Chinese capital’s first ever pollution “red alert” came into effect. The alert, the highest possible warning level, was issued late Monday and will last until midday on Thursday. Limits have been placed on car use and some factories have been ordered to stop operations. It comes as China, the ...

The United States has deployed a P-8 Poseidon spy plane to Singapore for the first time. It is the latest in a series of US military actions seen as a response to China’s increasingly assertive claims over territory in the South China Sea. The US says it will also base a military reconnaissance plane at Singapore’s Paya Lebar air base. ...

Shares in mining firm Anglo American have fallen by more than 10% as the company said it would sell huge chunks of its business and shrink its workforce by nearly two-thirds. The changes will see the workforce drop by 85,000, from 135,000 to 50,000. The group has been forced to restructure after the collapse of commodity prices slashed profits. Anglo ...

The Spanish government says it has rights to a sunken Spanish galleon discovered in Colombian waters. The foreign minister says he is asking for more information about the galleon, the San Jose, found after decades of searching. The galleon, which was sunk in 1708, belonged to Philip V of Spain. Its discovery was announced on Saturday. The ship was attacked ...

Six children, including a baby, died when a dinghy carrying Afghan migrants capsized off Turkey, reports say. The Turkish coastguard rescued eight others from the Aegean Sea near the western city of Izmir. The latest tragedy came a day after the body of a young girl was found washed up on a nearby beach. More than 3,500 people have died ...

Syria’s disparate political and armed opposition factions are coming together in Saudi Arabia for a conference aimed at pursuing peace talks. Representatives will attempt to agree a common position from which to negotiate with the government of Bashar al-Assad. It is the first time most of the main rebel groups have been involved in peace moves since the conflict began. ...

Is your boss quick to blame you when something goes wrong but slow in giving credit for a job well done? New research from Duke University helps explain why people are biased towards treating negative actions as intentional but positive actions as unintentional. The researchers found that people use two different mechanisms to judge how intentional an action was. If ...

Teenagers do understand the dangers of using cellphones while driving-but they still use them, new research has found. Car crashes kill more teens each year than anything else, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Teenagers think about what they do behind the wheel in very different ways than we think about teenagers behind the wheel,” said ...