'Blame me'

A protester in London. Photo: AFP BBC Online Prime Minister David Cameron has said he could have handled the row over his financial affairs "better", admitting it had "not been a great week". Addressing the Tories' spring forum, he said he was to blame for the handling of revelations about his holding in his late father's offshore fund. Days after questions were first raised, the PM admitted this week he had owned...

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Life's looking better at 108

Taramoni Das, 108, making bamboo baskets at Mahishkhocha of Aditmari in Lalmonirhat. She spent most of her life in extreme poverty. Thanks to a philanthropist in Dhaka, Taramoni has been living a happy life for about a year now. Photo: Star S Dilip Roy with Andrew Eagle To find proof that a human life can turn brighter even after the first one hundred years, it might do as well to travel to the Teesta River basin...

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Man rescued from cliff after proposing to girlfriend

BBC online A US man aimed high when he decided to propose to his girlfriend - climbing a steep cliff face to pop the question via a video-app on his phone. Only Michael Bank's romantic gesture hit the rocks after he became stuck on his way down and had to be rescued. The drama unfolded on the 600ft (180m) high Morro Rock off California's Central Coast. The good news, his girlfriend said yes. The bad news, he now faces...

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Tonu Murder CID to arrest suspects soon

Investigators are poised to make a breakthrough soon in the probe into the murder of Comilla college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu as they have got some clues and identified some suspects, says a top CID official. They are going to arrest some suspects and interrogate them in custody to learn what actually happened on the night of March 20 when Tonu was found dead in Comilla Cantonment area. "We are now in a position to make some arrests," Masud Karim Khan, special superintendent of Comilla-Noakhali division of CID, told The Daily Star...

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CHILDREN HELPING CHILDREN

Asahi Hoque among the children at the Sun Child Home in Dhaka, which is run by Distressed Children and Infants International. Photo: Collected Sakeb Subhan “I want to be a medical doctor working for the disadvantaged like my dad.  I do have to keep bringing everything back to my Dad, my Dad is everything I want to be,” was how Asahi Hoque, a fourth-year student at University of Connecticut majoring in Cellular...

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WASHINGTON: "What?? Again???" could well be the reaction in some quarters as US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter returns to India for his second visit in eleven months this weekend. Quite understandable, considering there have been times when eleven years have elapsed before a US defense secretary and an Indian Raksha Mantri crossed each other's path.But in a sign that two countries are bent on seizing the tide in world affairs, and having...

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Is It Time To Buy OptiBiotix Health PLC & Centamin plc After Today’s News? Photo: Andrzej Barabasz (Chepry). Cropped. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Tweet Shares in OptiBiotix Health (LSE: OPTI) jumped by more...

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85-year-old veteran Arne Mayala takes up tap dancing, checking item off bucket list

Arne Mayala may be 85 years old, but he's still got "the moves." And now — after taking up tap dancing last month — the U.S. Navy veteran's got more moves than ever. The lifelong fan of song-and-dance films like "Singing in the Rain" found his way to the dance floor somewhat by accident. After passing by Dance Tech Studios in Forest Lake, Minnesota, on the way to the accountant's office, his wife, Carol Mayala, prodded...

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'American Sniper' widow writes heartfelt birthday tribute to Chris Kyle: 'I celebrate you'

Taya Kyle, widow of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle, is at it again. And by 'it,' we mean making us all blurry-eyed with a heartfelt Facebook post, this time to honor her late husband's birthday. "Today I am remembering birthday parties and the youthful fun you brought to our lives," death Chris was 38 when he and friend Chad Littlefield, 35, were shot and killed in 2013 at a Texas shooting range by former Marine Eddie Ray Routh, who was convicted of murder in February of 2015 and sentenced to life in prison without...

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