- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
A Bradford taxi driver who attempted to incite a 13-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity has been jailed for two-and-a-half years. Naveed Ansari, 46, who sent an image of his genitals to the girl, planned to collect the girl from her school for having sex. As police officers found…
A Leeds man who sold drugs by posing as a food delivery driver has been jailed for more than five years by the Leeds Crown Court last week. Sharaz Hussain, 36, was caught by police with cocaine, ketamine and cannabis inside a food delivery bag in Pudsey in August this…
A British army veteran from Bristol has been nicknamed Rambo by colleagues after he survived multiple shrapnel wounds in battle with Russian troops in Ukraine. Shareef Amin, 40, a former soldier in Britain’s 1st Battalion ‘The Rifles’, suffered injuries to every limb but said that he is ready to do…
Sir Walter Scott, one of Europe’s greatest novelists of his lifetime, has become the centre of a controversy with academics at the University of Warwick branding his novel Ivanhoe as “offensive” for its portrayal of racial minorities. The university’s English department warns its students: “Amongst the aspects readers might find disturbing, this…
A domino effect due to the Taliban banning higher education for women in Afghanistan is being felt by the country’s private universities, which according to an estimate are staring at imminent closure, Tolo News reported. “The economic challenges have surged widely 30 to 35 universities are facing major economic problems,” said Mohammad…
Researchers from the University of Oxford on December 22 released findings from a clinical trial investigating the effectiveness of the antiviral treatment molnupiravir against Covid-19 – the first treatment tested in the ongoing PANORAMIC (Platform Adaptive trial of NOvel antiviRals for eArly treatMent of COVID-19 In the Community) trial. In…
Akshata Murty, the Indian wife of Rishi Sunak, plans to make 10 Downing Street a more accessible place during her tenure as UK First Lady and has offered a peek into the official residence of the British prime minister, according to a magazine feature released on Wednesday (28). The February…
British journalist and television presenter Ranvir Singh has said her colleagues’ refusal to call out discrimination at the workplace during the early years of her career motivated her to become who she is today. Singh, who appears in ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme, said when people around ignored her, she made sure…
A university chancellor in the US is under pressure to resign over a racist Asian joke he made at a commencement ceremony earlier this month. The Board of Trustees of Purdue University Northwest has issued a formal reprimand to chancellor Thomas Keon in response to the comments he made at…
A grief-stricken woman in the UK is raising funds to take her husband’s body back to India after he died of a heart attack in Hull earlier this month. Ratandeep Bhosale, a software engineer working for Siemens in Hull, died on December 11, aged 40, shortly after complaining of severe…
