Manjurul Islam, a member of the Bangladesh Parliament for the Gaibandha Sundarganj constituency, has died after being shot by three gunmen who attacked him at his home in Bamandanga of Sundarganj in northern Bangladesh. Mr Islam was injured in the ...

Thirty-nine people lost their lives in Istanbul as a terrorist began shooting at random in a Turkish nightclub just minutes into the New Year. As European countries laid on unprecedented levels of security following threats that ISIS/Daesh were aiming to ...

The Tories are still obsessed with the myth that electoral fraud is rife in areas with a high number of black and Asian voters. As Tower Hamlets has shown time and again, the number of stories about possible or pretend ...

The UK economy’s report card for 2016 reads “has made some progress, but could do better”. It has done well in terms of stock market performance and house prices – but these measures do not guarantee long term security or ...

Domestic violence is not restricted to physical attacks: the crime of “coercive control” – where perpetrators subject their victims to mental torture – was introduced in 2015. This form of mental abuse was featured last year in The Archers, a ...

Kevin Crehan is dead – just months after he and three accomplices left raw meat sandwiches outside the Jamia Mosque in the Totterdown area of Bristol. The four tied bacon to the door handles of the mosque and tied a ...

A majority verdict from the jury at the Old Bailey just before Christmas saw James Roberts, 32, of Ambleside Avenue, Hornchurch convicted of murdering 60-year-old Aiden O’Mahony. The guilty man will be sentenced at a further hearing at the Old ...

Met police detectives from Havering have released a picture of a man they want to interview in an attempt to clear up an assault which took place over the summer. A minicab driver was seriously assaulted in the early hours ...

Black and Asian Muslim youngsters, particularly young women, “do worse for jobs”, even though it is white boys from poor families who “do worse” in school. The finding comes from the Social Mobility Commission – an independent but official body. ...

Lawyers representing up to 28 child refugees hope to be in the High Court next week, asking for the Home Secretary to explain why she has not granted them asylum in the UK. The case rests on a point of ...