The 48-year-old’s body was found in her Belgravia home in west London on Monday after police arrested Hans Kristian Rausing for alleged drug offences. Westminster Coroner’s Court heard Mr Rausing, whose family made billions from the Tetra Pak carton firm, was being held on suspicion of murder. Post-mortem tests on Mrs Rausing were inconclusive, the [...]

The Chelsea and England defender had denied making the comments to the Queens Park Rangers player during a match at Loftus Road last October. The 31-year-old told Westminster Magistrates’ Court he was merely repeating what he thought Mr Ferdinand had said to him as they traded insults. The FA has said its inquiry into the [...]

Mahfuzur Rahman has recently been promoted as the residence manager of Ruposhi Bangla Hotel, according to a statement of the hotel. Prior to the promotion, he was the director for sales and marketing of the hotel. Rahman has over 28 years of experience in the hotel industry. He began his career with Dhaka Sheraton Hotel [...]

Dozens of militants who came from Afghanistan to attack a village in Pakistan’s northwest and took scores of hostages fled back across the border, leaving behind the captives and carrying the bodies of 15 fighters killed in a battle with the army, Pakistani officials said Friday. Elsewhere in the country, a bomb exploded near a [...]

Thailand’s Constitutional Court has rejected allegations that government plans to amend the constitution are an attempt to overthrow the monarchy. The court dismissed opposition petitions arguing the changes would undermine Thailand’s revered monarchy. Lawmakers from the ruling Pheu Thai party see the constitution as undemocratic because it was created after a 2006 army coup. Security [...]

A train ploughed into a truck packed with farm workers at a level crossing in eastern South Africa on Friday, cutting it in half and killing at least 19 people who were on their way to pick fruit, police and emergency services said. Police spokesman Joseph Mabusa said it appeared the truck driver had badly [...]

The United States ramped up pressure on Iran’s ability to export oil on Thursday, identifying Tehran’s main tanker firm and exposing dozens of its vessels as government-controlled entities. In the latest set of measures designed to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the US Treasury identified the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), 58 of its [...]

Officials say two separate bombings in Afghanistan have killed a Nato service member and a local official with the Afghan Ministry of Women’s Affairs and her husband. Nato says the service member was killed by a roadside bomb in the south. No other details were released. Sarhadi Zwak, a spokesman in eastern Laghman province, says [...]

Minister without portfolio Suranjit Sengupta has said that the cancellation of Padma bridge funding by the World Bank is an artificial crisis created with political motive. “The country’s politics and economy are now much better than before,” he said while addressing a discussion on Friday. Criticising the World Bank for cancelling the funding after three [...]

Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has refused the invitation extended by UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi for a dinner party on July 18, ahead of the presidential elections, reports an Indian daily. The Times of India said on behalf of Sonia Gandhi, Congress leader Ahmed Patel had called Mamata asking her [...]