Dutch prosecutors yesterday said they were investigating a possible terrorist motive behind the shooting on a tram in the city of Utrecht in which three people were killed and five wounded.

At least three people are killed and nine others injured in a shooting in a tram in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, the mayor says.

British leader Theresa May's government warned yesterday it might not hold a planned Brexit vote this week unless it feels it can secure a win that avoids a lengthy delay to pulling out of the EU.

A couple of days after China put a “technical hold” on the UN Security Council's efforts to designate Jaiesh-e-Mohammed founder

Janomot, oldest Bangla weekly news magazine in Britain, celebrates its half a century of journalism.

Prime Minister Theresa May's deputy yesterday warned lawmakers that unless they approved her Brexit divorce deal after two crushing defeats, Britain's exit from the European Union could face a long delay.

It began with a solitary, 15-year-old girl camped out in front of Sweden's parliament next to a hand-written sign: "SCHOOL STRIKE FOR CLIMATE".

British MPs yesterday voted massively against delaying leaving the EU in order to hold a second Brexit referendum, dealing a major blow to pro-European campaigners urging a fresh public vote.

The European Union expects British Prime Minister Theresa May to request a Brexit delay beyond March 29 after the divided UK parliament voted down her divorce agreed with the bloc for the second time on Tuesday.

British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal suffers a major blow ahead of a historic vote, when her chief attorney ruled that risks from its most contentious points remained "unchanged".

British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy was in meltdown yesterday after her failure to win last-minute concessions from the European Union set the stage for another humiliating defeat of her divorce deal in parliament.

Brexit could be reversed if lawmakers reject the government's exit deal, British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said yesterday after two major eurosceptic factions in parliament warned that Prime Minister Theresa May was facing a heavy defeat.

The leader of Britain's parliament Andrea Leadsom said she was beginning to wonder what game the European Union was playing over

Thousands of Venezuelans protested once again yesterday as opposition leader Juan Guaido cranks up the pressure on beleaguered

Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila's centre-right government resigned yesterday after it failed to push through a flagship social and health care reform package, just five weeks ahead of a legislative election. The wide-reaching reform has been a hard fought struggle over a decade and has divided successive governments.

Progress towards gender parity at work has barely budged for the past quarter century, and will only speed up once men take on far more unpaid caregiving tasks, the UN said yesterday, on the eve of International Women's Day.

France on Wednesday introduced a bill to tax internet and technology giants such as Google and Facebook on their digital sales, putting it among a vanguard of countries seeking to force the companies to pay more in the markets where they operate.

EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said yesterday "no solution" has been found so far to break the deadlock over Brexit, a spokesman

Social media firms and foreign investors must do more to ensure they support human rights in Myanmar, UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee

1957: Ghana became independent from Britain.