HUMAN APPEAL has been working to alleviate suffering in Syria since the outbreak of the civil war. Tragically, it looks like the hard working charity will be there for a long while yet. The violence of war is continuing. Parts ...

A BANGLADESHI MAN has been held by New York police following what appears to have been an attempted rush-hour terror attack on a major transport hub in the US city. Police assume the suspect was aiming to detonate a bomb ...

FARMERS IN California were going to spend Christmas planning their avocado harvests early in the new year. Now they will be worrying over how they are going to keep their farms going, as wildfires so massive that they can be ...

Emdad Rahman reviews Fake News: Strange historical facts reimagined in the world of Donald Trump. IN A NUTSHELL, this book is lampooning of Olympic Gold standards by witty, Newham-based Author David Hutter. The digest by the 38 year old begins with ...

Emdad Rahman DAGENHAM 88 runner Lynne Northcott, aka Jogonhijabi, returned home to complete The Great South Run as part of her preparations for the London Marathon. Northcott is running for the Penny Appeal to raise funds for a fresh water project ...

DONALD TRUMP has been spending large parts of August getting mixed up about whether he is playing a macho video game or trying to run a country which is involved in most of the inter-state conflict in the world. It ...

THE FAR RIGHT is back on the political map in the USA – and people and politicians are responding to their attempt to rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend. One woman was killed as a right wing maniac drove ...

ONE PERSON IS dead and 15 people were injured as a car rammed protestors who had gathered to show their opposition to a hard-right demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia this evening. Footage circulating on social media shows a car driving towards ...

TOMMY ROBINSON, former Leader of the English Defence League (EDL), is backing Anne Marie Waters to be the next Leader of UKIP. Waters is one of eleven UKIP members who are taking part in the contest to select a new ...

IMAGINE THE scenario. An unelected leader visits a country’s parliament – and sits in a chamber of unelected members of parliament and summons the elected representatives of the people to hear what the elected leader has sanctioned as the legislative ...