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Kishwar Desai | Amid smoker fury, PM faces pub ‘ban’; Maggie’s portrait retires from No. 10

Kishwar Desai | Amid smoker fury, PM faces pub ‘ban’; Maggie’s...

There is still some English summer left to enjoy. The best new place to visit nowadays is the rural pub opened...

1 Sep 2024 6:42 PM GMT

Ingvar Kamprad, founder of Swedish multinational furniture retailer IKEA. (Photo: AP)

A shopping jaunt like none other

For instance, say you are in IKEA to pick up a double bed and a matching mattress.

9 Feb 2018 9:46 PM GMT

Some of the Sikhs had blamed militant group Taliban for carrying out routing killings of the minority group. (Photo: ANI)

Declassified documents reveal Thatcher govt tried to ban Sikh protests...

Documents were released after UK judge ruled that declassifying Downing Street papers would not damage diplomatic ties...

12 July 2018 1:28 PM GMT

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (Photo: AP)

Jair's repertoire: Racism, misogyny, climate change

Bolsonaro's penchant for crudity is reminiscent of Rodrigo Duterte, but he wears with pride the tag Trump of the...

29 Jan 2020 10:51 PM GMT

Farrukh Dhondy | Signs of hope in UK's Batley, as teacher triggers...

Mohammed Amin Pandor, a publicity seeker and a graduate engineer from Dewsbury recently issued a fatwa against the...

3 April 2021 2:27 AM GMT

Britains Finance minister Rishi Sunak said that hundreds of thousands of people have already lost their jobs, and sadly in the coming months many more will. (AP Photo)

AA Edit | Bleak Christmas in Sunak's Britain

Mr Sunak has little cause to celebrate his days at 10 Downing Street surpassing the short-lived tenure of his...

16 Dec 2022 6:45 PM GMT

Britains Queen Elizabeth II, left, welcomes Liz Truss during an audience at Balmoral, Scotland, where she invited the newly elected leader of the Conservative party to become Prime Minister and form a new government, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Britain's 3rd woman PM set to face testing times

Tory Party members have voted Liz Truss in but the cream of her Cabinet ministers is expected to feature reality of...

6 Sep 2022 6:46 PM GMT

Britains Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss, leaves from Balmoral Castle in Ballater, Scotland, on September 6, 2022, after meeting with Britains Queen Elizabeth II and being invited to form a Government. (Photo: AFP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Can a flexible' Liz Truss usher in Global...

Long the front-runner in the race to replace Boris Johnson, Ms Truss is the Conservatives' fourth Prime Minister since...

6 Sep 2022 6:35 PM GMT

The Polish-born French scientist was chosen in a reader poll for BBC History Magazine.

Scientist Marie Curie voted woman who has made biggest impact in world...

Curie was the first person who won two Nobel prizes and her work led to effective treatments for cancer and the...

9 Aug 2018 8:57 AM GMT