The UK’s foremost master planner, architect Sir Terry Farrell, says we should build low-cost rising bridges east of Tower Bridge to ease traffic and create new floating neighbourhoods for London’s exploding population. There are 34 bridges across the Thames in Greater London. Just one lies east of Tower Bridge, 20 miles downriver in Dartford — the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, ...

Politicians and business leaders gathering in the Swiss Alps this week face an increasingly divided world, with the poor falling further behind the super-rich and political fissures in the United States, Europe and the Middle East running deeper than at any time in decades. Just 62 people, 53 of them men, own as much wealth as the poorest half of ...

David Cameron has been accused of “lazy and misguided” policy-making after he said a poor grasp of English left Muslim women in the UK “more susceptible” to the lure of extremism. Baroness Sayeeda Warsi – a former Conservative chairman – said he was guilty of “stereotyping communities”. The PM said he wanted to help women learn English to improve integration. ...

Prime minister, who only started using term Daesh for terrorist group last month, chides Radio 4 presenter David Cameron has criticised the BBC again for using the term “Islamic State”, saying Muslim people would be holding their heads in despair. The prime minister made the comments when he was asked about Islamic State by presenter Sarah Montague during an interview ...

Iran is set to flood the oil market with an extra half a million barrels a day after international sanctions were lifted in a move that has been hailed by the country’s president as a “golden page” in its history. President Hassan Rouhani said the deal “opened new windows of engagement with the world” and the country should “get ready ...

Tsai Ing-Wen has been elected as Taiwan’s first female president. The 59-year-old secured a decisive margin in a landmark election which could disrupt relations with Beijing. Ing-Wen is leader of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) which favours independence from China. After eight years of the pro-China Kuomintang (KMT) party, Ing-Wen’s victory signals a welcome breath of fresh air for many ...

Three men from Manchester caught up in a potential terror investigation inCanada have claimed Vancouver police racially profiled them because they had beards. CCTV pictures of the trio in a Vancouver shopping mall were leaked to Canadian media last week after they were seen taking “suspicious” photographs. Vancouver police on Thursday appealed for information about the “suspicious incident”, which they ...

A corridor of snow has swept across parts of the UK, with many people in south-east England seeing their first fall of the winter. The band of snow moved through western Scotland, north-west England, the Midlands, and south-east England. Parts of rural Scotland dropped to -10C (14F) for a second night. The weather has caused flight delays at Manchester and ...

Bangladesh today beat visiting Zimbabwe by a big margin of 42 runs in the 2nd T20 of the four match T20 series at Khulna Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium. Sabbir Rumman, who scored 93 off 30 during Bangladesh’s pile of 168 runs, was awarded man of the match. Touring Zimbabwe have managed to score 125 runs by losing eight wickets in ...

Chatok-Dowara Surma Jubo Parishad recently distributed rickshaws to the poor and deprived local people to help them with employment.  UK living representatives of the organisation organised a meeting to mark the cheque giving of this benevolent initiative. The meeting took place in a restaurant in East London on 5th January.  Organisation’s President Fajrul Haque Enam presided over  the meeting and ...