Nine people were shot dead by a white gunman during a bible study class at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina. This attack at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church is being viewed as a hate crime.

Randall Jarrell was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist, and the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate.

A couple of days ago a few of my girlfriends and I went to Gulshan for sehri. We had no car with us so we were planning on taking a CNG run auto rickshaw back home. A couple of minutes passed while we were trying to find a one but there was none at sight. At last a

An Awami League leader of Benapole municipality unit was abducted from Aricha Ferry terminal in Manikganj district early yesterday.

The law enforcers arrested an alleged human trafficker from Kamargaon village under Shibpur upazila of the district on Sunday night.

It would have been an unforgettable, joyous day for BGB Nayek Abdur Razzak.

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In India’s Barefoot College, rural women learn to make and maintain solar panels, bringing clean power to their villages and creating

Generating electricity through play. That’s the simple but inspired idea of an American humanitarian organisation: Empower

At the end of 2011, a group of friends saved 12 cheese pies left over at a bakery in a poor neighbourhood of western Athens and

Filled with stamps from the 15 or so countries he has visited, Brandon Cobone has an impressive passport for an 18-year-old. Even

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Belete Tura straps a large, lightweight pack to her back before starting her short walk to a nearby biogas facility in ArsiNegele, in the

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Who would have thought that poo could be a source of clean energy?

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It’s the middle of his school day and high school senior Julio Leiva is so hard at work that beads of perspiration dot his brow and