Typhoon Ragasa has made landfall in southern China, where nearly two million people have been evacuated in preparation for its arrival. It comes after authorities said at least 17 people had been killed and more missing in Taiwan after a lake burst on Tuesday, causing severe flooding in the island’s east. Ragasa was downgraded from a super to a severe ...

One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases – Huntington’s – has been successfully treated for the first time, say doctors. The disease runs through families, relentlessly kills brain cells and resembles a combination of dementia, Parkinson’s and motor neurone disease. An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in ...

A 700-year-old church tower has been suspended 45 feet above ground as part of a major City of London building project. The tower of All Hallows Staining Church was balanced on stilts above a 60,000 square foot excavation site at 50 Fenchurch Street in what developers called a “never seen before feat of engineering”. A “bottoming out” ceremony on Tuesday ...

Sir Sadiq Khan has said Donald Trump has shown he is “racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic” after the president made comments about him to the United Nations. Speaking to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Trump said London had “a terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed”. He added: “Now they want to ...

A person has been arrested in connection with a cyber-attack which has caused days of disruption at several European airports including Heathrow. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said a man in his forties was arrested in West Sussex “as part of an investigation into a cyber incident impacting Collins Aerospace”. There have been hundreds of flight delays after Collins Aerospace ...

Standing barefoot in a grassy patch of dandelions, Iris Phoebe Weaver excitedly begins listing the many ways the modest plant can be used medicinally and in cooking. “I just picked a bunch of dandelion flowers yesterday and threw them in vodka with some orange peel and some sugar, and that’s my dandelion aperitif,” Weaver said. “That will make a lovely ...

A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed former food minister Advocate Kamrul Islam on a five-day fresh remand in connection with the murder of jhoot trader Md Monir during last year’s anti-discrimination student protests at Shahbagh. Meanwhile, former lawmaker Mohammad Solaiman Selim was also shown arrested in the case. Monir was shot dead on August 5, 2023, while joining the protest ...

Around 45.6 per cent of respondents believe BNP is most likely to form the next government if Awami League will not participates, according to the People’s Election Pulse Survey, round 2, released on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Jamaat-e-Islami will get 33.5 per cent of votes, National Citizen Party (NCP) will get 4.7per cent, Islami Andolan Bangladesh (IAB) 3.10 per cent and Jatiya ...

Ajay Kar Khokon, a banned Awami League leader and former general secretary of banned Chhatra League, has been arrested by Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). The arrest was confirmed on Wednesday (September 24) by DMP’s Deputy Commissioner (Media) Muhammad Talebur Rahman. He said that Khokon was arrested from Gulshan area of the capital. “Further legal procedures are ...

Police have arrested former female councillor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Mohila Awami League leader Hajera Khatun Nargis from Dhaka’s Gulshan area. Deputy Commissioner (Media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Talebur Rahman said she was arrested from the Gulshan around 11:30PM on Tuesday. Being tipped-off, a special team from Gulshan Police Station conducted a drive and apprehended her. ...