A council worker accused of taking money intended for victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster has been charged with fraud. Jenny McDonagh, 39, is alleged to have obtained the cash “while being neither a survivor or bereaved family member”, Scotland Yard said. The Kensington and Chelsea Council employee was charged with four offences, including money laundering. She is due to ...

It might sound like pie in the sky, but Japan’s government is banking on a future with flying cars, launching an initiative Wednesday with the private sector to develop futuristic vehicles.   The initiative aims to draw up a roadmap by the end of the year on commercialising flying cars, a concept that so far remains largely theoretical.  Japanese government ...

  Cox’s Bazar, Aug 29 : British Minister of State for the Middle East at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister of State at the Department for International Development Alistair Burt on Wednesday said the UK kept pressure on Myanmar to take back its nationals from Bangladesh ensuring their rights. While talking to reporters after visiting Kutupalong Rohingya camp ...

Dhaka, Aug 29 : The United Kingdom (UK) has expressed hope that the next national elections in Bangladesh would be participatory, where all parties will join. UK FCO-DFID Joint Minister of State Alistair Burt and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam during a meeting at Foreign Ministry here discussed about the upcoming general elections in Bangladesh that will take place later ...

More than 100 Britons who were forcibly sent abroad as children under a resettlement scheme are suing the UK government over the abuse they faced. In March this year, the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sex Abuse said survivors should receive financial compensation within 12 months. But the British government has failed to set up any scheme providing redress. Between 1945-70, ...

  French fishermen have been accused of throwing insults, rocks and smoke bombs at their British rivals in the English Channel in a vicious scrap over scallops. The clash happened around 12 nautical miles (22km) off the Normandy coast, near the Bay of Seine.  British boats are legally entitled to fish in the scallop-rich area.   But their presence has ...

Beijing,  Aug 29 :  More than a dozen human rights groups have sent a letter to Google urging the company not to offer censored internet search services in China. The joint letter dated Tuesday calls on CEO Sundar Pichai to explain what Google is doing to safeguard users from the Chinese government’s censorship and surveillance. That follows a letter earlier ...

Countries should quickly agree a treaty banning the use of so-called killer robots “before it is too late”, activists said Monday as talks on the issue resumed at the UN.   They say time is running out before weapons are deployed that use lethal force without a human making the final kill-order and have criticised the UN body hosting the ...

British Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific Mark Field has said the gravity of the UN report on human rights violations in Myanmar warrants the attention of both the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Security Council. He said there cannot and must not be impunity for such acts, which the Mission has concluded warrants “the investigation ...

  British MP Tulip Siddiq, who is the niece of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has called on her aunt to release arrested photojournalist and artist Shahidul Alam, according to the British newspaper The Times. Tulip Siddiq, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, said that the detention of Shahidul Alam by the government was “deeply distressing and should end ...