Titanic passenger's watch expected to fetch £1m
A gold pocket watch recovered from the body of one of the richest passengers on the Titanic is expected to fetch £1m ($1.3m) at auction, BBC reported.
Isidor Straus and his wife Ida were among the more than 1,500 people who died when the vessel travelling from Southampton to New York sank after hitting an iceberg on 14 April 1912.
His body was recovered from the Atlantic days after the disaster and among his possessions was an 18 carat gold Jules Jurgensen pocket watch that will go under the hammer on 22 November, according to BBC.
Restaurant bombed off famed Las Vegas Strip by suspect on a scooter
An improvised explosive device (IED) detonated and damaged a restaurant near the Las Vegas Strip in the US state of Nevada, BBC reported.
The building, which houses Piero's Italian Cuisine and is across the street from the city's famed convention centre, was empty at the time of the explosion early on Thursday morning.
A cleaning crew discovered the damage when they arrived about eight hours later and notified authorities of a suspected bombing, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said, according to BBC.
Trump celebrates as Democrats face fallout from end of shutdown
After 43 days, the longest US government shutdown in history is coming to an end.
Federal workers will start receiving pay again. National Parks will reopen. Government services that had been curtailed or suspended entirely will resume. Air travel, which had become a nightmare for many Americans, will return to being merely frustrating, BBC reported.
After the dust settles and the ink from President Donald Trump's signature on the funding bill dries, what has this record-setting shutdown accomplished? And what has it cost?
Senate Democrats, through their use of the parliamentary filibuster, were able to trigger the shutdown despite being a minority in the chamber by refusing to go along with a Republican measure to temporarily fund the government, according to BBC.
Bangladesh to hold referendum on reform charter proposals, Yunus says
Bangladesh will hold a national referendum on implementing its ‘July Charter’ for state reform, drafted after last year's deadly student-led uprising, Muhammad Yunus, the head of the country's interim government, said on Thursday, Reuters reported.
He also reiterated that parliamentary elections will be held in the first half of February and that they would be free and fair.
The interim government approved the July National Charter (Constitution Reform) Implementation Order 2025 on Thursday and it will be implemented depending on the outcome of the referendum, according to Reuters.
