Washington, Aug 18 : A former Trump campaign adviser should spend at least some time in prison for lying to the FBI during the Russia probe, prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller said in a court filing Friday that also revealed several new details about the early days of the investigation. The prosecutors disclosed that George Papadopoulos, who served ...

Photo: In this photo released by the National Assembly, the leader of Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf party Imran Khan, left, greets speaker of the National Assembly Asad Qaiser in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Islamabad, Aug 17 : Pakistani lawmakers on Friday elected former cricket star and longtime politician Imran Khan as the country’s next prime minister, in a step toward ...

Students across Tower Hamlets schools achieved great success in their A Level results and the borough as a whole saw improvements across key measures. 85.% of A level students achieved at least 3 A Levels at grades A* to E a 5.9% increase on 2017. 93% of A Level students gained at least 2 A Level grades A*-E (increasing by ...

Mayor instructs resilience forum to assess impact of food and medicine shortages Sadiq Khan is to instruct the body tasked with planning for terrorism attacks and disasters such as the Grenfell Tower fire to start making preparations for a no-deal Brexit, to assess whether London could face potential shortages of medicines and food. The London mayor said the government was ...

Committee seeks explanation of how practice complies with international law Parliament’s human rights committee has asked the government to explain how the police and security services’ use of child spies is reconciled with international law. In the first step of a potential investigation into child spies, the joint committee on human rights has asked the Home Office to explain how ...

I would like to extend my best wishes to all those performing Hajj this year and to Muslims in Tower Hamlets and around the country who are celebrating Eid-ul-Adha. On Eid-ul-Adha we reflect on the values of sacrifice, trust and forgiveness. On this day Muslims from all over the world join their neighbours and friends at mosques, community centres, parks ...

Miami, Aug 17 : An Alaska man faces a life prison sentence in the January 2017 Florida airport shooting that left five people dead and six wounded. Sentencing is set Friday for 28-year-old Esteban Santiago, who pleaded guilty in May to 11 charges in a plea deal in which prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty. Santiago, of Anchorage, ...

        Pope Francis is on the side of victims of more than 300 “predator” priests in the United States who are accused of abusing over 1,000 children across seven decades, the Vatican said Thursday. “Victims should know that the pope is on their side,” the Vatican said in a statement after a devastating US grand jury report ...

In January 2014 Bangladesh was the first country in South Asia to introduce any genetically modified (GM) food crop in the region. In little over four years’ time nearly a fifth of Bangladeshi brinjal farmers are now cultivating – Bt brinjal – a GM eggplant, making it one of the fastest adopted biotech crops ever, reports UNB.   After October, ...

The plane sits on the grassy portion of the runway of Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Photo, collected) A XiamenAir plane had a rough landing Thursday at Manila International Airport when it skidded off the runway. AirLive shared photos on social media of the Boeing 737’s “crash landing,” claiming the engine detached from the left wing. The plane can be ...