Workers escorted by scores of French police officers moved into the “Jungle” in Calais yesterday, demolishing shacks and tents emptied of migrants who were being bussed to shelters around France.

EU lawmakers have lifted the parliamentary immunity of former French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, a move sought by French prosecutors who want to try him for allegedly inciting race hate.

Sri Lankans went on strike across the island’s north yesterday as anger mounted over the police killing of two Tamil university students at a checkpoint.

It was after floods washed away her family’s river-front land in Bangladesh’s northern Jamalpur district that Brishti Rafiq’s widowed father brought her to live in Dhaka.

Clutching a radio in his hand on a barren hill surrounded by desert peaks, Sahil prepares to guide a pilot flying low overhead toward his training target – the third car in a convoy below.

Bangladesh police said yesterday they shot dead two members of the country’s largest Islamist party in gunfights, as a rights activist demanded an independent probe on concerns of extrajudicial killings.

Middle East-based Islamic State yesterday said fighters loyal to their movement attacked a police training college in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, in a raid that officials said killed 59 people and wounded more than 100.

Two submarines will be added to the fleet of Bangladesh Navy by this year, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Nizamuddin Ahmed said after a meeting with President Abdul Hamid in Dhaka yesterday.

Labour has been fined £20,000 by the Electoral Commission, the largest imposed by the body in its history, for undeclared election spending during the 2015 campaign, including more than £7,000 on the so-called “Ed Stone”.

Conservative lawmaker Zac Goldsmith, a vocal opponent of the expansion of Heathrow Airport, yesterday notified the government of his decision to resign from parliament, the finance ....

The government backed a $22bn expansion of London’s Heathrow Airport yesterday, ending 25 years of indecision with an ambitious plan to boost global trade links following the vote to leave the European Union.

An Indonesian court yesterday jailed an Islamic State group supporter for eight years for his role in a deadly gun and suicide bombing attack in Jakarta, the latest extremist sentenced over the assault.