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Princess Anne: The can-do will-do royal

There is one great final duty that many children feel towards their parents: the duty to see them safely and peacefully to their last rest. Almost all who take on

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‘Just doing my job,’ says record-setting Nepali climber

Shawdesh Desk: Summiting the world’s 8,000-metre mountains is the ultimate bucket list dream for ambitious climbers, a feat managed by fewer than 50 people, and Sanu Sherpa is the first

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Crown Jewels: The royal family’s precious gems

Shawdesh desk: The Crown Jewels form the centrepiece of the royal coronation, and symbolise the pomp and history of the British monarchy over the centuries. – The Imperial State Crown

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Bangabandhu, his daughters had memories with Queen Elizabeth II

Shawdesh Desk: Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history and an icon instantly recognisable to billions of people around the world, died on Thursday at the age of 96. Buckingham

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Israeli U-turn over West Bank romance declarations

Shawdesh desk; Israel has dropped a controversial demand for foreigners visiting the occupied West Bank to report romantic links with Palestinians within 30 days. Revised rules also on foreigners living

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Dhaka’s oldest surviving Binat Bibi Mosque in a sorry state

Sawdesh Desk: The Binat Bibi Mosque’s structure offers nothing spectacular if the architectural aspect is considered but its specialty lies in its history. The five hundred and sixty six-year-old building

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Last member of Brazilian indigenous community found dead

Shawdesh Desk: The last of his people, a Brazilian indigenous man known only as “the man of the hole” has been found dead, decades after the rest of his uncontacted

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The verdict that sent Malaysia’s untouchable ex-PM Najib to prison

Shawdesh Desk: Earlier this week, inside the huge, Islamically-styled Palace of Justice in Malaysia’s political capital Putrajaya, something remarkable happened. In the dock stood a man of immense wealth and

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