BIRMINGHAM

Fragments of what could be the oldest version of the Quran in existence have been found by researchers from the University of Birmingham after they lay unrecognized in a library for a 100 years. Scientists say that the fragments, written on sheep or goat skin are at least 1,370 years old.

British bank HSBC fired six staff after they filmed a mock Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-style execution video during a team-building day out and posted footage online, a spokesman confirmed on July 7.

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep, WTA No 3, on Thursday qualified for the quarterfinals of the WTA grass-court tournament taking place in Birmingham (UK), equipped with total prizes worth 665,900 US dollars, after defeating Klara Koukalova (Czech Republic), 6-1, 6-3, in only 50 minutes.

Migrants fleeing Syria and Afghanistan have turned the Aegean Island of Kos into a ?disgusting hellhole,? according to Britain?s Daily Mail online edition.

Known for cheap package deals, Kos has witnessed an influx of migrants reaching its shores from Turkey this year.

British police said on April 4 they had arrested six people at the southern English port of Dover on suspicion of terrorism offences related to the ongoing conflict in Syria.

The five men and one woman, all aged in their 20s, were detained on April 3 morning in the departure zone of the port, West Midlands police said.

A local politician in Britain has stated that his son is one of nine Britons arrested in Turkey for allegedly trying to enter Syria.

Shakil Ahmed, a Labour Party councilor in Rochdale, northwest England, said on April 2 that he had thought his university student son was in Birmingham, England. Ahmed said he was "shocked, worried and extremely upset" to learn that he was in Turkey.

NOVI SAD - A total of 16 drama pieces will be performed at the upcoming 60th Sterijino pozorje, with nine plays in the competitive selection and another three in the international programme Circles, the theatre institution has announced.

The festival's selector Marina Milivojevic Madjarev has picked nine plays for the national drama and theatre selection.

The “plan” of the British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband to appear as any other Brit drinking tea with his wife in his house kitchen “backfired”, after reports that actually the kitchen was the smaller of two kitchens in the Milibands’ 2.3 million pounds worth North London home.

Heavy metal lovers in Bulgaria will have the chance to see one of their favorite bands in June this year.

The legendary Judas Priest will be coming to Sofia for a concert organized by Sofia Music Enterprises on June 30 at the Armeets Arena in the Bulgarian capital.

NOVI SAD - Serbia's best track-and-field athlete Ivana Spanovic won the national indoor long jump gold in Novi Sad on Saturday, with a leap of 6.78 meters, the third-longest jump in the world this season.

Spanovic also competed in the 60 meter dash and recorded a time of 7.35 seconds, just 0.04 seconds slower than her personal best and the Serbian record of 7.31.