Afghan child who made a homemade football t-shirt to meet hero
Five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi, who lives in the Afghan province of Ghazni, has had his image shared across the world, and is now set to meet his footballing hero, Lionel Messi.
Fans across the globe were moved by the image of the young boy wearing a homemade ‘Messi 10’ shirt made...
Table tennis teen is top sportsmen for 2016
A sporty teenager from Leeds has added another trophy to his growing collection this past week, this time without even having to lift a bat.
At the British Muslim Awards 2016, Shayan Siraj, from Bramhope, was named the recipient of the ‘Best at Sport’ award, commending his growing reputation in the sporting world.
The...
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, 44, should be allowed to go free from his three-and-half year arbitrary detention at the Ecuadorian embassy in London and be awarded compensation, a UN panel ruled on Friday.
Assange, a computer hacker who angered the United States by publishing hundreds of thousands of classified US diplomatic cables, has been hiding away in the embassy since...
Boxer doesn’t want sport to become ‘about money’
World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is struggling to motivate himself and could quit boxing, the controversial fighter told BBC Radio 5 Live on Thursday.
He said: “I could walk away. I could just sail into the sunset unbeaten with all the belts and live a normal life. All that I would be boxing...
‘Intended use’ policy welcomed by Bradford’s cabbies
Bradford Council has welcomed moves by a Lancashire local authority to put an end to the problem of taxis operating across the border in Bradford.
A survey found recently that around 200 private hire vehicles operating in Bradford were licensed as Hackney Carriages in the town of Rossendale.
Council taxi officers were concerned that safety...
India’s Foreign Minister ‘deeply pained over shocking incident’
Five people have been arrested by police in the southern Indian city of Bangalore in connection with an attack on a Tanzanian student.
A mob beat up and partially stripped the 21-year-old woman after a Sudanese student's car ran over and killed a local woman on Sunday night.
The woman and her three Tanzanian...
Thousands of Syrians flee city after Russian airstrikes
Tens of thousands of Syrians are being forced out of the city of Aleppo towards the Turkish border, after intense Russian airstrikes on Friday.
Aid workers have said they fear the city, which once was home to two million people, could soon fall under a full government siege.
For the people of Aleppo,...
Huddersfield’s new scheme sees motorists flouting the rules
Huddersfield town centre has activated new ‘bus gates’, much to the dismay of motorists.
Many drivers have already been fined and taxis have arrived late in the town centre.
The controversial scheme which aims to prevent vehicles from driving around key routes in town launched this week, causing ‘chaos’ on the roads.
Only buses and...
Bradford to lose big bounty of arty artefacts
A recently signed agreement, which will see more than 400,000 objects from Bradford’s National Media Museum transferred to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), has been met by strong opposition from local art fans.
The move, which would create the world’s foremost collection on the art of photography, was approved last month...
Wibsey warbler wows Will.i.am
Twenty-one-year-old Bradford-born singer, Faheem Ashraf, had the judges' chairs spinning around faster than a vinyl record player set to the rotational speed of 78 RPM on Saturday night.
Dressed in double denim, a straw trilby and sparkling ear-rings that matched the twinkle in his eye, Faheem looked the part as he took to the stage on BBC1's 'The Voice'. But did...
Birmingham will see hi-tech shuttles arrive in the region next year
A £2.3 million funding package which will bring state-of-the-art driverless cars to Birmingham has been given the green light.
The ‘INSIGHT’ project, an industry and academia partnership, will see autonomous vehicles pull into city centre streets after the cash was secured from the government’s £100 million Intelligent Mobility Fund - aimed at developing autonomous...
Students ensure late classmate from Bradford will be remembered
A water well is being built in Nepal in memory of a Bradford College student who died unexpectedly last summer.
Suresh Ram, who was studying for a degree in Ophthalmic Dispensing, died suddenly in his sleep at the age of just 21.
His college friends were determined to do something positive in his...
Mum and dad sent money to Syria so that son could buy glasses
The parents of a British man, who purportedly travelled to Syria to join Daesh, have revealed they were arrested by police.
Jack Letts, 20, from Oxford, who has been labelled ‘Jihadi Jack’ by some media outlets has OCD, a severe mental health disability.
It is reported that he left...
President Obama has a clear message for American Muslims
After seven years in office, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, has finally set his foot inside a mosque on US soil.
On Wednesday, he told people who had gathered at the Islamic Society of Baltimore that he refused to accept political rhetoric against Muslim-Americans from Republican presidential candidates.
Obama described...
World Curry Festival jets off to Malaysia
For the second year running, the Bradford-born World Curry Festival has once again cooked up a storm on the international scene, with a return to Malaysia for the International Halal Expo.
Running from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st January in the heart of Penang, the festival celebrates foods from around the world with...
Birmingham father-of-four shot dead by masked men
Detectives have launched a major investigation after a man was shot dead during an attempted robbery at a warehouse in Digbeth on 3rd February.
Officers were called to Direct Source 3 Ltd, at 66 Rea Street South, just before 6.40pm on Wednesday, after receiving reports that several masked men were robbing the premises.
Response officers...
One of the exclusively created and very special DB10 Bond cars built for the ‘Spectre’ film by Aston Martin will be auctioned off at the London auction house of Christie’s for charity.
The sale, in aid of Médecins Sans Frontières, will take place on 18th February and is expected to raise around £1m.
The auction celebrates the release of the 24th...
Kirkstall legend Azram opens up about his closed restaurant
It was 5.30pm on Boxing Day last year, and Azram was serving his beloved customers at Azram’s Sheesh Mahal Restaurant – a bastion of Asian cuisine in Kirkstall.
It wasn’t long before water was gushing through the restaurant from the horrendous floods that hit Leeds.
Asian Express decided to revisit the popular eatery...
Places still available for Halifax to Bradford fundraiser
In 2014, they raised £2,000, in 2015 it was £7,000, and now, with just weeks to go until the 2016 Halifax to Bradford charity run, the organising team are hoping to break all records and smash their five-figure target.
Open to all ages and abilities, the Islamic Relief-backed run challenges fundraisers to...
Ammunition amnesty
A weapons amnesty across West Yorkshire has meant that an enormous haul of guns and knives have been handed over to police.
This included two AK47 assault rifles, 80 guns and 150 ‘bladed and offensive weapons’.
The 12-day surrender campaign was backed by 51-year-old school teacher Vincent Uzomah, who was stabbed in the stomach in his classroom by a pupil...
