Photo: Covered bodies lie inside the entrance area of the Pavon Rehabilitation Model Farm after a shooting inside the jail in Fraijanes, Guatemala, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Fraijanes, May 8 :  Gunfire during a riot in a Guatemala prison Tuesday left at least seven inmates dead and 10 wounded, authorities said. National Civil Police said the dead were all prisoners ...

  More than 1,000 people have secured jobs over the past 12 months thanks to the efforts of the WorkPath partnership led by Tower Hamlets Council. WorkPath is an employment brokerage and training service dedicated to supporting the residents of Tower Hamlets into sustainable jobs. Since April 2018, the team has worked with partners across the borough to provide vital ...

The effects of social media use on teenage life satisfaction are limited and probably “tiny”, a study of 12,000 UK adolescents suggests. Family, friends and school life all had a greater impact on wellbeing, says the University of Oxford research team. It claims its study is more in-depth and robust than previous ones. And it urged companies to release data ...

Theresa May is to meet the chairman of an influential committee of backbench Tory MPs, Sir Graham Brady, amid calls for her to set a firm resignation date. It follows a request from the 1922 Committee for “clarity” on the issue. No 10 insists the meeting is routine, but pressure is mounting on the PM, with local Tory associations confirming ...

A bush fire fanned by gusty winds has gutted four villages in South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal region, killing 33 people, the president’s spokesman said, adding the toll was likely to rise. The spokesman said in a statement late on Monday that 60 other people were in a critical condition after the fire on Sunday. “The injured are receiving ...

  Muslims in Tower Hamlets are being encouraged to have a healthy Ramadan when it starts on 5/6 May. People with long-term health conditions such as diabetes are advised to speak to their GP to understand if fasting will impact on their condition, how to manage their medication and what they can do to prevent any adverse reactions. Muslims are ...

Rayhan Ahmed Topader: The untrammelled exercise of power, without legal, political or moral restraint is the bane of many countries across Africa. That is why the abuse of power tends to manifest itself in a more grimly way amongst our peoples. It is not that politicians in other societies are not wilful or whimsical, but there are other institutions that ...

India and China are working closely on common trade concerns, including cooperation in buying oil and gas, against the backdrop of a US squeeze through tariffs and sanctions on Iranian oil imports, officials with direct knowledge of the matter said. Efforts have been made by the world’s second- and third-largest oil importers to find common ground and energy cooperation is ...

Two Asian telecom giants — Malaysia-based Axiata Group Bhd and Norwegian Telenor Group — are in talks to merge their Asia operations to gain a bigger foothold in the region’s mobile phone market. They are in discussions regarding a potential non-cash combination of their telecom and infrastructure assets in Asia (MergeCo), in which Telenor would take a majority stake. The ...

Photo: A fighter from forces of the UN-backed Libyan government is seen in Salah Al-Din frontline, Tripoli, Libya, on May 6, 2019. Tripoli, May 7 : A total of 432 people have been killed and 2,069 others injured in the fighting between the UN-backed Libyan government and the east-based army in and around the capital Tripoli, the World Health Organization ...