Colombia finished top of World Cup Group K after playing out a highly-entertaining end-to-end 0-0 draw with Portugal on Saturday. Colombia will feel hard done by nevertheless as a marginal offside ruled out a late goal by Davinson Sanchez. The Colombians will play Ghana in the last 32 next Friday, while runners-up Portugal will see Cristiano Ronaldo face his old ...

Jude Bellingham dragged England out of a rainy New Jersey grind on Saturday, scoring one goal and creating another for Harry Kane as Thomas Tuchel’s side beat Panama 2-0 to top Group L and avoid a nervy route through the World Cup knockout phase. England finished with seven points, ahead of Croatia on six, after their 2-1 win against Ghana, ...

The Home Office has vowed to introduce new “capped safe and legal” routes for refugees to come to the UK from later this year. The department said it would allow organisations like universities, community groups and businesses to sponsor refugees who applied to come to the UK, a model based on Canada’s asylum system. The government also said it would ...

A severe heatwave that has already claimed dozens of lives across Western Europe is tracking eastward, bringing sweltering conditions to Germany and Poland. As originally reported by Reuters, temperatures in these regions are projected to approach 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) over the weekend. Prior to shifting east, the weather system baked Britain, France, and Switzerland with record-breaking June ...

Foreign Minister Dr Khalilur Rahman on Saturday said Bangladesh’s relations with China have been elevated from a “Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership” to a “Bangladesh-China Community with a Shared Future”- the highest level of bilateral cooperation. He said this while highlighting the major success of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s just-concluded visit to China during a press briefing, reports UNB. “This is ...

State Minister for Planning Zonayed Saki on Saturday said the government has no intention of undertaking mega projects simply to create a false impression of development or facilitate large-scale corruption. “By just taking up mega projects to make people astonished and create an illusion of development, this government has no interest in mega loot from those projects. Our Finance and ...

Flights at London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports have been delayed for up to 11 hours as the heatwave turns to thunderstorms. More than 800 flights have been delayed in and out of the two travel hubs so far on Saturday and dozens cancelled, many due to the stormy weather. The UK’s air traffic control service said delays were expected to ...

The London Ambulance Service (LAS) faced its busiest day on record on Friday as extreme heat continued across the capital, declaring a critical incident due to the pressure on the service. Call handlers took 8,869 emergency calls in a single day and between 18:00 BST and midnight, they were answering more than 500 calls an hour. Ambulances were dispatched to ...

For 300 years, the towering Gothic steeple and temple-like columns of St Martin-in-the-Fields have stood at the corner of London’s Trafalgar Square, with the building’s three century-long history now being explored in a new exhibition. St Martin’s position at the heart of the capital makes it the parish church for the residents of Buckingham Palace, 10 Downing Street and the ...

Health and Family Welfare Minister of Bangladesh, Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain, is set to inaugurate the first round of nationwide ‘Vitamin A Plus Campaign 2026’ on Sunday, June 27, 2026. The inauguration ceremony will be held at 10:00am at the Shaheed Abu Sayed International Convention Center in Shahbagh. According to the programme schedule released by the Ministry of Health and ...