The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau is warning residents about a new scam targeting people of Asian descent. Victims of the scam are cold called by people claiming to be from the Home Office UK Visa and Immigration department. The cold caller claims that a case has been received by the department against the victim, sometimes suggesting that the victim will ...

Bangla Mirror Desk House price rises of 5% a year and a shortage of affordable homes are set to swell the ranks of “generation rent” over the next decade, so that by 2025 more than half of those under 40 will be living in properties owned by private landlords. A report from economists at accountancy firm PwC suggests the number ...

Bangla Mirror Desk In a press conference on monday 20thJuly, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs- who has just completed his first month in office- spoke about some of the changes he has made in the first few weeks of his time in power. The Mayor was formally elected in the early hours of 11th June, but officially started ...

Bangla Mirror Desk What may be the world’s oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in existence. The pages of the Muslim holy text had remained unrecognised in the university library for almost a century. The British ...

Bangla Mirror Desk The synagogue building stood between East London Mosque and London is now the property of the East London Mosque.  Up to now the Jewish people used to pray here, from now on only Muslim people will pray.   East London Mosque purchased this Synagogue building on 15th of July with a cost amounting 15 million pounds. Mosque Committee ...

On Monday 13 July, London Enterprise Academy celebrated excellence pupil performance in their first year at the new Free school in Whitechapel.  Principal Ashid Ali said “you have made this day possible, through persistence and hard work, through external or internal motivation, and through your love of learning, and we commend you for it”. He then thanked the parents for ...

Chad’s former President Hissene Habre has been forcibly brought to court for the second day of his trial for crimes against humanity. The trial has been suspended until 7 September after Mr Habre and his lawyers refused to speak to the judge. The court in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, has now appointed new lawyers to represent him. Mr Habre denies responsibility ...

Dozens of people in Egypt have apparently disappeared after being detained secretly by security forces, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned. The US-based group said in some cases state officials either denied holding individuals or refused to reveal their fates. It called on the authorities to immediately disclose their whereabouts and hold those responsible to account. Enforced disappearances constitute a ...

A man in China has admitted stealing more than 140 paintings by Chinese masters from a university and replacing them with his own forgeries. Xiao Yuan, 57, a curator at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in southern China, sold 125 of the exhibits for more than 34m yuan (£4m, $6m). In his defence, he told Guangzhou People’s Intermediate Court there ...

A Lufthansa plane nearly collided with a drone as it was approaching Warsaw’s international airport in Poland, officials say. The incident happened on Monday afternoon with the drone coming within 300ft (100m) of the plane from Munich, Germany, an airport spokesman said. The crew of the Lufthansa Embraer ERJ-195 reported the near collision with the drone at 2,500ft (760m). Police ...