A PhD student in Berkeley. A 12-year-old in Texas. A content creator in Washington. An undergrad at Stanford. A former math teacher turned homeschool mom in Texas. After a three-day competition in Atlanta, Georgia, these people became national champions for a burgeoning hobby: speed jigsaw puzzling. I have been a lifelong jigsaw puzzle lover. But in recent years, I have ...

On the night Chris Wood returned from six months on the sidelines, a freakish own goal by the Porto defender Martim Fernandes earned Nottingham Forest a draw and fostered optimism of advancing to the Europa League semi-finals. The New Zealand striker was withdrawn at the interval, Vitor Pereira mindful of the bigger picture with Sunday’s home match against Aston Villa ...

Keir Starmer has said he is “fed up” with the effect that Donald Trump’s actions in the Middle East are having on the British public, while appearing to draw a comparison between the US president to Vladimir Putin. Speaking to ITV’s Robert Peston on Thursday, the prime minister said: “I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country ...

Sadiq Khan has called on ministers to take significantly stronger action against social media companies that spread disinformation after a study showed a surge in hostile accounts posting falsehoods about London’s crime rates and integration. In an intervention on what he called “the outrage economy”, the London mayor, who has also written to social media firms demanding change, said a ...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned ships to keep to a route passing through its territorial waters when crossing the Gulf’s Strait of Hormuz as traffic on Thursday remained well below 10% of normal volumes. Mitsui OSK Lines, one of Japan’s big three shipping firms, is among those caught up in the confusion as firms try to work out ...

Authorities have introduced a QR code-based “Fuel Pass” app on a pilot basis in a bid to restore transparency and discipline in the distribution of fuel across Bangladesh. Under the new system, each vehicle will be assigned a unique QR code, which must be scanned at fuel stations to receive fuel within a quota. The initiative is designed to regulate ...

The Jatiya Sangsad on Friday passed 10 more bills aimed at converting ordinances issued by the interim government into law. The bills were adopted unanimously during the morning sitting of the 13th day of the first session of the 13th parliament. As no clause-by-clause amendment proposals were placed, the bills were passed without discussion. The session was chaired by Speaker ...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has started selling and receiving nomination forms to finalise party candidates for the reserved women’s seats in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad. The programme formally began at 11:00am on Friday at the party’s central office in Naya Paltan in the capital. The event was inaugurated by Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, the party’s Senior Joint Secretary General. He said ...

Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury has said that the government aims to become a trillion-dollar economy by 2034 through planned economic reforms and effective policy measures. Speaking in the National Parliament (Jatiya Sangsad) on Friday, the minister said the government is prioritising inclusive socio-economic development and strengthening state capacity. As part of this effort, an initial distribution of 50 ...

US First Lady Melania Trump made a surprise statement on Thursday denying any knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, or that she herself was a victim of the convicted sex offender. The 55-year-old’s rare on-camera remarks at the White House came out of the blue, in an extraordinary intervention in a scandal that has long haunted her husband President Donald Trump. ...