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UK officially joins Indo-Pacific trade bloc

The UK is officially now the 12th member of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

Google opens AI Campus in London

Google has launched its first AI Campus in London, aiming to train local students in artificial intelligence and machine learning. The campus, located in Somers Town, Camden, was inaugurated by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday.

British businesses lost $55 billion to cyberattacks over five years

British businesses have lost an estimated £44 billion ($55.08 billion) in revenue over the past five years due to cyberattacks, with more than half (52%) of private-sector companies reporting at least one incident, according to insurance broker firm Howden.

Key changes introduced in the 2024 UK budget

The October 30 budget was presented against the backdrop of certain predictions.

China urges more economic cooperation with UK

China is ready to boost economic ties with the United Kingdom, Vice Premier He Lifeng said Wednesday, state media reported, as part of a diplomatic thaw following years of frosty relations

Public contents on Facebook, Instagram in UK to be used to train AI: Meta

Meta Platforms is set to resume training its artificial intelligence (AI) models using public content shared by adult users on Facebook and Instagram in the UK, according to a recent blog post by the company.

6,000 police at the ready to quell UK riots: govt

There has been a week of nightly riots in various cities since three children were killed in a mass stabbing.

Asif Akbar makes an appearance on BBC’s ‘Nadia Ali Show’

Bangladeshi musician Asif Akbar recently attended an event hosted by the international media giant BBC in the UK. He engaged in a lively conversation on “The Nadia Ali Show” at the BBC's London headquarters.

FICTION / Chess Grandmaster

My father reasoned that he had grown up in a poor land that had been plundered by the colonial powers and he was not going to give away another national treasure

May 6, 2018
May 6, 2018

Anger in France, Britain over Trump's gun law speech

US President Donald Trump sparks anger in France and Britain by suggesting looser gun laws could have helped prevent deadly attacks in Paris in 2015, and linking a wave of knife crime in London to a handgun ban.

April 13, 2018
April 13, 2018

PM to begin 9-day visit to KSA, UK on Sunday

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will embark on a nine-day visit to Saudi Arabia and the UK from Sunday. She will witness a grand military

March 31, 2018
March 31, 2018

UK-Russia standoff deepens as Moscow cuts UK diplomats

Moscow has told Britain it must cut "just over 50" more of its diplomatic and technical staff in Russia in a worsening standoff over the poisoning of a Russian former spy and his daughter in England, the Russian Foreign Ministry says.

January 25, 2018
January 25, 2018

UK sandwich consumption produces same carbon dioxide as ‘millions of cars’

Britain's annual sandwich consumption produces the same amount of carbon dioxide as more than eight million cars, according to a study.

December 24, 2017
December 24, 2017

London Zoo reopens after fire that killed aardvark, meerkats

London Zoo reopens a day after a fire that killed an aardvark and likely four meerkats and which left staff suffering from smoke inhalation and shock.

August 26, 2017
August 26, 2017

Buckingham Palace attacker had '4-foot sword', shouted 'Allahu akbar'

A man arrested under the Terrorism Act after deliberately driving at police outside Queen Elizabeth II's Buckingham Palace residence in London had a "four-foot sword" in his car, police say.

August 20, 2017
August 20, 2017

First HC judge of Bangladesh origin in UK

Queen Elizabeth II has appointed Akhlaq Ur Rahman Chowdhury QC, a UK citizen of Bangladesh origin, a judge of the High Court in the UK.

June 14, 2017
June 14, 2017

PM urges expats to uphold Bangladesh image

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges the Bangladeshi expatriates living in the UK not to do anything that could damage the country's image.

March 24, 2017
March 24, 2017

London attacker Khalid Masood was a criminal with militant links

A British-born former teacher and Muslim convert, Masood had shown up on the periphery of previous terrorism investigations that brought him to the attention of Britain's MI5 spy agency.

March 22, 2017
March 22, 2017

5 dead, around 40 injured in UK parliament 'terrorist' attack

Five people are killed and about 40 injured in London on Wednesday after a car ploughed into pedestrians and a suspected Islamist-inspired attacker stabbed a policeman close to Britain's parliament.