Bangladesh police probe student 'rat curry'

(frankieleon)

There’s no avoiding it. Work an eight-hour day (or longer) and you’ll have to stop to eat at some point. Be it a questionable sandwich or a lavish lunch, workers need grub. But what should you eat to achieve maximum results? And is skipping lunch to polish off that email really such a bad thing?

(Rennett Stowe)

Recent research has found that nearly two thirds of workers eat their lunch at their desk every day, with many admitting they would feel ‘guilty’ if they left the office for their allocated hour. Many workers are no longer paid for their lunch breaks, and therefore have every legal right to leave the premises for a full 60 minutes each and every day. So why are we rushing out to pick up a quick meal deal and heading straight back to dine ‘al desco’?

Just over a month after police broke up an alleged online gambling ring at a Markham Super Bowl party, a slew of raids in Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario Tuesday morning added 18 more arrests to the tally. “Today, I can say that we have dismantled one of the largest illegal gaming groups in Canada and the previous arrests were one phase of a larger project,” said RCMP Deputy Commissioner, Steve Graham. “Organized crime groups are entirely profit-motivated and this illegal gaming activity generated significant profits.”

Security forces in Bangladesh arrested more than 300 people Sunday as the first nationwide general strike since elections in 2008 was marred by violence, police said.In the capital Dhaka, security forces fired tear gas and used batons to disperse hundreds of opposition activists as they tried to hold marches along major roads, police said.An opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) lawmaker was hurt when supporters and opponents of the strike clashed at Dhaka University, police spokesman Walid Hossain said, adding the man was later arrested.