Bangla Mirror desk As London unites to mark the tenth anniversary of the 7/7 bombings, staff at The Royal London Hospital will hold a memorial service at the A&E entrance of the old hospital, to remember those who died and honour the courage of all those affected. At The Royal London, home to world-leading trauma services and London’s Air Ambulance ...

Tower Hamlets Council has been today (July 8) declared the legal owner of the Henry Moore sculpture “Draped Seated Woman” at the High Court. The council has been involved in a lengthy ownership debate with Bromley Council (as successor to the London Residuary Body) who claimed rights to the sculpture in 2012. Responding to the news, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, ...

Eurozone finance ministers say they expect to hear new proposals from Greece after the country voted to reject the terms of an international bailout. Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem described the referendum result as “very regrettable for the future of Greece”. Ministers are to hold emergency talks on Tuesday. Earlier, Greece’s outspoken finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, resigned. He said that eurozone ...

Three generations of one family from Dungiven, County Londonderry, have graduated at the same time with a diploma in Irish. Odhrán Mullan, his aunt, Maria, and 82-year-old grandfather, John, were in the same class at the Ulster University at Magee. John Mullan was the oldest student in the class. Odhrán said he began studying the Irish language after being inspired ...

A United Nations tribunal is to begin deliberations on whether it can hear a legal challenge over territorial claims in the South China Sea. In 2013, the Philippines asked the Permanent Court of Arbitration to declare invalid most of China’s maritime claims in the disputed area. China claims almost the whole of the South China Sea angering several Asian neighbours. ...

The world’s oldest man, Japanese supercentenarian Sakari Momoi, has died in Tokyo at the age of 112. The former high school principal and father of five children died of kidney failure in a care facility on Sunday. He had been named the oldest man by Guinness World Records in August. In April the world’s oldest person and oldest woman, Misao ...

Police have searched an airliner at India’s Delhi airport after a bomb threat, officials say. Reports say the Turkish Airlines flight, flying from Bangkok to Istanbul, made an emergency landing after crew spotted a message on a toilet mirror written in lipstick. The message reportedly warned that there was a bomb in the cargo hold. The plane landed safely at ...

Nigeria’s Boko Haram crisis: Zaria bomb attack ‘kills 20’ At least 20 people have been killed in a bomb attack in northern Nigeria’s Zaria city, state governor Nasir El-Rufa’i has said. A suspected suicide bomber targeted civil servants at a government building in the city, witnesses said. Emergency workers have rushed to the scene to help evacuate the wounded. Militant ...

South Africa have won the two-match T20 series against Bangladesh by defeating the hosts by 31 runs in the second match at Sher-E-Bangla National Stadium in the capital’s Mirpur. Bangladesh have scored 138 runs in 19.2 overs losing all wickets in the second Twenty20 international against South Africa on Tuesday. Parnell took Tamim at 13, Leie sent Soumya, Sabbir and ...

Emdad Rahman Syed Iftekhar was again the stand out performer as Scintilla CC beat Aztecs in the latest round of Essex County Cricket League games. On a warm summer day at the Peter May sports ground Scintilla CC won the toss and decided to bat first. Another big total saw the home side reach 281/9 from 45 overs. Iftekhar followed ...