IS British schoolgirl wants to return home

London: A British girl of Bangladeshi descent, who fled to join the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria as a 15-year-old schoolgirl in 2015 and married an Islamist extremist, has appealed to the UK government to allow her to return to Britain.  

Shamima Begum, now 19, was traced in a refugee camp in Syria by a war reporter, who found her pregnant with her third child and keen to leave the war zone for the safety of her unborn child. “I’m not the same silly little 15-year-old schoolgirl who ran away from Bethnal Green four years ago. I don’t regret coming here,” Begum told The Times in her interview. PTI

Prince Philip escapes prosecution over nasty car crash 

London: Prince Philip, the 97-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has escaped prosecution over his nasty car crash as authorities announced on Thursday that it would not be in the “public interest” to proceed further. The Duke of Edinburgh escaped injury after his Land Rover Freelander collided with another vehicle on January 17 on a road near the Queen’s Sandringham country estate in Norfolk. Two women in 

the Kia car were injured but a nine-month-old baby boy escaped unhurt. PTI