• Doomed Air France plane was not destroyed in flight
• Obama's climate leadership faces test at G8 forum

12 detained over Savar unrest
Police arrested 12 factory workers from Ashulia Thursday for alleged involvement in three days of riots earlier in the week over work conditions, pay and the killing of co-workers by law enforcement agencies. More...

Help NRBs to help us: Zillur
President Zillur Rahman has called on government ministries and foreign missions to give all support to non-resident Bangladeshis so they in turn can do good for the country. More...

Villagers kill straying tiger
Villagers in Sharankhola Upazila near the Sundarbans beat a straying tiger to death on Thursday. More...

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• Khaleda approves new JCD committee
• Sahara leaves for Singapore
• JS panel backs MPs as advisers to CCs
• Ershad recovering after heart op

• Help NRBs to help us: Zillur
• SEC lawyer raised alarm about Madoff: report
• Auto supplier Lear to file for bankruptcy, obtains financing
• NY City apartment sales down over 50 percent

• Serena downs Dementieva in epic semi
• Tigers play West Indies A on Friday
• Changing test format will damage game, says Miandad
• FIFA-appointed reps inspect 'Balur Math'

• Letter from Washington
  28 year-old speechwriter among Obama's top-earning aides
• Life in North Korea: lies, potatoes and cable TV
• Wining and dining still popular in downturn
• Downturn creates more working mothers in Asia: poll

• Fame, fortune for web tutors in education-crazy S.Korea
• Web advertisers propose self-regulation principles
• COMMENT: China's Web filtering starts in the West
• All-day party celebrates China web filter delay

• Michael Jackson gets more bizarre after death
• Jackson's body to return to Neverland: reports
• Courts may decide who controls Jackson's estate
• Doctor queried in Jackson death, 2nd autopsy held

• Regenerated legs no big trick for salamanders
• More than 800 wildlife species now extinct
• Solar orbiter Ulysses ends mission after 18 years
• Scientists kill cancer cells with "trojan horse"

• GE teams up with Geron for stem-cell research
• FDA confirms E. coli found in Nestle cookie dough
• Asia's party drug ketamine carries incontinence risk
• Eighth case of swine flu confirmed

• Obama's climate leadership faces test at G8 forum
• India will reject greenhouse gas emission targets
• Obama opposes energy bill trade penalties: reports
• US House passes landmark climate change bill