Airbus A320 with 107 people aboard crashes in residential area of Karachi in Pakistan 

Airbus A320 with 107 people aboard crashes in residential area of Karachi in Pakistan By Alice Cachia For Mailonline Published: 11:31 BST, 22 May 2020 | Updated: 11:44 BST, 22 May 2020 A Pakistan passenger plane with more than 100 people believed to be on board crashed in the southern city of Karachi on Friday, … Read more

Serbia sends army to border with Croatia to ‘secure’ three migrants camps holding 1,500

Serbia sends the army to its border with Croatia to ‘secure’ three camps holding 1,500 migrants trying to reach the EU amid claims of ‘harassment’ against local people Serbian Defence Ministry deployed army to a town near the border with Croatia Told to ‘secure’ three migrant camps housing some 1,500 people near Sid President Vucic … Read more

One in four doctors come from countries that are ‘banned from working for the NHS’

One in four new NHS medics come from countries that are ‘banned’ from working for the health service, figures have revealed. The NHS’ Code of Practice lists 97 nations that ‘should not be actively recruited from’ because they receive aid or suffer from a shortages of medics. But an investigation has shown certain NHS trusts … Read more

Coronavirus UK: ‘Extraordinary’ doctor, still working at 84, dies

An ‘extraordinary’ GP, who was still working at the age of 84, has become the ninth family doctor to die from coronavirus. Dr Karamat Mirza, who was raised in Pakistan by a family of doctors before moving to England in 1966, was still treating patients up until two weeks ago at the Old Road Medical … Read more

Climate change lets toxic green algae thrive in the Arabian Sea

Shrinking snow caps in the Himalayas are causing the spread of toxic green algae so big it can be seen from space, a new study has found. US research based on NASA images found blooms of the marine species Noctiluca scintillans, known as ‘sea sparkle’, lining coastlines around the Arabian Sea. Noctiluca scintillans, a millimetre-size … Read more

At least 171 frontline NHS workers have now died in the coronavirus pandemic including 27 doctors 

Revealed: At least 171 frontline NHS workers have now died in the coronavirus pandemic including 27 doctors  According to Nursing Notes at least 27 doctors and 100 nurses have died so far  Furqan Ali Siddiqui, 50, who arrived from Pakistan two months ago, is one  Father-of-two Adekunle Enitan, 55, died at the William Harvey Hospital, … Read more

Woman wearing safety goggles AND glasses delivers flowers to No10 TWICE in one day

A woman from the High Commission for Pakistan delivered flowers to 10 Downing Street twice in one day wearing both glasses and safety goggles. On her first visit, the diplomatic official got out of a Mercedes car clutching a huge bouquet and a large envelope to ‘Hon Mr Prime Minister & Ms Symonds, 10 Downing Street’. She returned later … Read more

Naans vast and crisp, the size of a pillow

Taste Of Pakistan 369 Hanworth Rd, Hounslow Rating: Taste Of Pakistan is not the sort of place you’d stumble upon. Unless, that is, you lived halfway down the Han-worth Road, deep in London’s Hounslow. But even then, you might well wander past the faded, unassuming storefront, wedged between a derelict betting shop and shuttered south … Read more