MI6 will be led by a woman for the first time in the foreign intelligence service’s 116-year history. Blaise Metreweli, who joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1999, will become the 18th chief of the organisation and take over from Sir Richard Moore later this year. She is currently responsible for technology and innovation at the service and said she ...

A project to build the UK’s largest road tunnel has been granted £590m by the government. Constructing the Lower Thames Crossing, linking Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent, will cost an estimated £10bn. Plans for the 14.5-mile (23km) route were approved in March after a 16-year process that has already cost £1.2bn. Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the crossing would ...

As the Oscars approach, Kate Young – the stylist who dresses Scarlett Johansson, Dakota Johnson, Margot Robbie and others – talks risk taking, intimacy, and why method dressing drives her “nuts”. On any given Oscar Sunday, Kate Young is sipping black coffee while perched in a movie star’s bedroom. “If the ceremony starts at 8pm, we’re there in the morning,” ...

“We just wanted a relaxing conversation with our dad and we weren’t able to have one,” says Jack Blumenthal. “It was horrible. And it was constant.” Raw pain is etched on Jack’s father’s face as he finally realises how his undiagnosed mental illness – and erratic manic behaviour – hurt the ones he loves the most. In a new BBC ...

Bangladesh is determined to continue their good performance on the opponent’s ground as they take on Sri Lanka in the two-match Test series opening game tomorrow (Tuesday) at Galle International Cricket Stadium. The match starts at 10.30 AM (Bangladesh Standard Time) and will be aired live on T Sports. The match marks the start of the fourth World Test Championship ...

A visiting delegation from the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) on Monday praised the interim government of Bangladesh for taking significant steps to address the issue of enforced disappearances. The delegation, comprising WGEID Vice-Chairperson Grażyna Baranowska and member Ana Lorena Delgadillo Perez, specifically welcomed Bangladesh’s accession to the International Convention for the Protection of All ...

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has introduced special discounted fares for workers on four more routes–United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait and Qatar. This advantage will be provided during the first visit to these countries, according to a notice on Monday. The special rates will apply only to one-way travel to these countries will be valid till December 31. The discount scheme for ...

A total of 23,659 Bangladeshi pilgrims have returned from Saudi Arabia as of Sunday following the completion of this year’s Hajj, which took place on June 5. According to officials, four return flights were scheduled for Sunday to bring back 822 pilgrims — one each operated by Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Saudia Airlines, and two by Flynas Airlines. The Hajj ...

A man was killed and another one injured in a head-on collision between a motorcycle and an auto-rickshaw at Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet on Sunday afternoon. The incident occurred in the Soti area of Lengura union on Gowainghat-Bangabir road under the upazila. The deceased was identified as Nazim Uddin, 25, son of late Fattah Miah of Manaura village in the ...

Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service reported on Monday that five people were killed and 92 others injured in Iran’s latest missile strikes on central Israel, raising the earlier death toll from four. The casualties occurred across four strike locations. According to the MDA, the fatalities included “two women and two men around the age of 70, as well ...