20-yr-old girl wins UK poll, breaks 350-yr history
Mhairi Black, of the Scottish National Party, has become the youngest MP elected in the UK for 350 years after defeating Labour's shadow foreign secretary.
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Mhairi Black, of the Scottish National Party, has become the youngest MP elected in the UK for 350 years after defeating Labour's shadow foreign secretary.
Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, daughter of Sheikh Rehana and grand-daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, became the Member of Parliament (MP) of United Kingdom on Friday.
Polls opened at 07:00 BST at around 50,000 polling stations across the UK, which will remain open until 22:00.
Thai authorities have found 30 more graves of suspected Rohingya Muslims in detention camps in border areas.
The death toll from the devastating earthquake in Nepal has risen to 8,413, the Nepal Red Cross Society said on Thursday.
Prime Minister of Thailand Prayut Chan-o-cha has given local authorities in all provinces 10 days to eliminate all Rohingya detention camps and related activities in their areas, reports Bangkok Post.
An explosion at an illegal fireworks factory in eastern India has killed 11 people and injured six others, a senior police officer said Thursday.
An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck off Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the US Geological Survey reported. This is just two days after a 7.4-magnitude jolt shook the southern coast.
Syrian army bombing in the mountainous area along the border with Lebanon killed dozens of insurgents.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held on to his job, announcing that he had hammered together a new coalition government just ahead of a midnight legal deadline.
Legislation that would dramatically expand the powers of Canada’s spy agency has cleared a key hurdle.
Millions of people will be casting their votes in the UK general election later.