Budding child politicians from across Tower Hamlets celebrated National Democracy Week with a raft of activities in and around the council. Children from Marion Richardson Primary School, Bigland Green Primary School, Blue Gate Field Junior School and English Martyrs Roman Catholic Primary School met Victoria Obaze, Speaker of the Council, to hear about her role. They viewed the robes and ...

Photo: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. London, Oct 25 : British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday said that he would give MPs more time to debate the new Brexit deal he reached with the European Union as long as they agree to a Dec. 12 general election. The prime minister urged the opposition Labor Party to back an election ...

Japan’s trade minister resigned Friday a month into his job in a scandal over condolence money, expensive melons and other gifts allegedly offered to election supporters. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was quick to remove Isshu Sugawara to limit the potential damage to his Cabinet. He accepted the offer to resign and replaced Sugawara with Hiroshi Kajiyama, formerly the minister in ...

Downing Street has dismissed reports of disagreements within UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government over how to move forward with the Brexit process. No 10 has indicated the PM will seek a snap poll if the EU proposes delaying the Brexit deadline until January.However, some ministers are understood to want to focus on getting the PM’s Withdrawal Agreement Bill through ...

London, Oct 24 : All 39 people found dead in a container truck near an English port were Chinese citizens, British police confirmed Thursday as they pressed to investigate one of the country’s deadliest cases of people smuggling. The Essex Police force said 31 men and eight women were found dead in the truck early Wednesday at the Waterglade Industrial ...

Boeing has said it expects its troubled 737 Max aircraft to return to the skies before the end of the year. The jet was grounded after two fatal crashes, including last year’s Lion Air disaster which killed 189 people, reports BBC.Just hours after Indonesian investigators blamed mechanical and design problems for the crash, Boeing said it had developed software updates. ...

Photo: In this Oct. 2, 2019, file photo a Microsoft Surface Pro 7 is displayed in New York. Microsoft Corp. reports financial earns on Wednesday, Oct. 23. Redmond, Oct 24 : Microsoft on Wednesday reported its latest solid quarterly report card to Wall Street, buoyed by another round of business customers signing up for its cloud computing services. The company ...

Photo: Aerial photo taken on Aug. 27, 2019 shows cargo ships berthed at a wharf of Wenfeng port in the China (Hebei) Pilot Free Trade Zone Caofeidian area in north China’s Hebei Province. Beijing, Oct 24 : The State Council on Wednesday made public a regulation on optimizing the business environment in the latest step to unleash and develop productive ...

London, Oct. 23 : British Prime Minister Boris Johnson put his Brexit deal on hold Tuesday night, almost certainly ruling out any chance of Britain leaving the European Union (EU) at the end of October. It was a sweet and sour night for Johnson in the House of Commons, finally winning support for his Brexit deal, also known as the ...

WeWork has been thrown a multi-billion-dollar lifeline from Softbank that will give the Japanese company more control of the troubled property start-up. In a statement, Softbank said it would provide $5bn (£3.9bn) in new financing and up to $3bn for existing shareholders.The deal will see Softbank increase its stake in the US office-space sharing start-up to roughly 80%. Co-founder Adam ...