Prince Harry’s “Spare” sold more than 3.2 million copies worldwide after just one week of publication and will likely rank among the bestselling memoirs of all time. Penguin Random House announced Thursday that Prince Harry’s headline-making memoir sold 1.6 million copies in the U.S. alone. It’s a number comparable to first week sales for blockbusters such as former President Barack ...

Grimacing in pain from his bruised cheekbone, Cristiano Ronaldo steadied himself before scoring from the penalty spot for his first goal in Saudi Arabia against a Paris Saint-Germain team featuring old foe Lionel Messi. Messi had already scored early in Thursday’s exhibition game when Ronaldo was flattened boxing-match style by PSG goalkeeper Keylor Navas after about 30 minutes in Riyadh, ...

Sreemangal of Moulvibazar district recorded the season’s lowest temperature in Bangladesh at 5.6°C, in 24 hours till Friday morning. The lowest temperature in Sreemangal was recorded at 2.8 degrees Celsius on February 4 in 1968, Mujibur Rahman, an officer at the Srimangal weather monitoring station, said. Temperature between 8 to 10 degrees Celsius is considered a mild cold wave, 6 ...

A 19-year-old woman was found dead in a Dakshin Surma residential hotel room Wednesday. However, hotel manager Jahir Miah, the former husband of the 19-year-old, went into hiding after the incident, police said. The deceased was identified as Nilima Begum Lily from Sylhet’s Osmaninagar upazila. Md Kamrul Hasan Talukdar, officer-in-charge (OC) of Dakshin Surma Police Station, said the two kept ...

Iftikhar Ahmed and captain Shakib Al Hasan combined for a 192 runs for an undefeated fifth wicket partnership, comfortably the highest in recognized T20 cricket as Fortune Barishal secured an emphatic 67-run win over Rangpur Riders at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram on Thursday. They went past the record of Dan Mousley and Adam Hose who put on 171 ...

Britain will send 600 Brimstone missiles to war-torn Ukraine to help its fight against Russian forces, British Defence Minister Ben Wallace said on Thursday, AFP reports. “Today I can say we’re also going to send another 600 Brimstone missiles into theatre, which will be incredibly important in helping Ukraine dominate the battlefield,” he told reporters at Estonia’s Tapa military base.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has unveiled plans to speed up the licensing and use of effective novel vaccines against tuberculosis (TB), the second leading infectious killer after COVID-19 and the 13th leading cause of death worldwide. Tedros announced the creation of the TB Vaccine Accelerator Council at a high-level panel at the World ...

According to a research, the number and quantity of meals were more important predictors of weight gain or reduction than the interval between meals. The findings of the study were published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association. According to the senior study author Wendy L. Bennett, M.D., M.P.H., an ...

The government will procure 1.10 crore litres of soybean oil for the state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) from local source. The decision was taken on Thursday at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) chaired by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal. Briefing reporters virtually after the meeting, Cabinet Division Additional Secretary Syed Mahbub Khan said the ...

A 15-year-old boy has been rescued from a container, shipped to Malaysia’s Klang port from Chattogram, Chattogram port authorities said on Wednesday. SM Foysal Ahmed, assistant manager of Continental Traders, said the Integra was shipped from Chattogram port to Klang port in Malaysia on January 12 and reached the latter on January 16, reports UNB. Hearing screams coming from an ...