Xi Jinping is making sweeping changes to how China is run
CNN)China's government is about to be massively restructured to fit President Xi Jinping's agenda.From a powerful new financial regulator to a super ministry to deal with the environment, wide-reaching changes to the way China is governed were passed by the National People's Congress, the country's rubber-stamp parliament, on Saturday.
Russians vote as Vladimir Putin seeks tighter grip on power
Moscow (CNN)Russians began voting Sunday in a presidential election widely expected to cement President Vladimir Putin's power for another six years.
All 6 victims recovered in Florida bridge collapse
(CNN)The remains of five people have been recovered from the rubble of a pedestrian bridge that collapsed in South Florida, bringing to six the number of people killed in the collapse, Miami-Dade County Police Director Juan Perez said late Saturday.
Take steps to avoid recurrence of plane crash: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to take all necessary steps to avoid the recurrence of such plane crash.
NEPAL PLANE CRASH Families wait for bodies to arrive soon
Families now wait for the 26 bodies of Bangladeshis who died in US-Bangla Airlines plane crash in Kathmandu on Monday that left 51 people dead.
SC stays Khaleda’s bail till Sunday
The Appellate Division on Wednesday stayed until Sunday a bail the High Court granted on Monday to opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, jailed for five years in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on February 8
Zafar Iqbal returns to SUST
Popular author and professor of computer science and engineering at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Muhammad Zafar Iqbal on Wednesday returned to the campus after he was released from hospital
Mushfiq’s fifty not enough
Skipper Rohit Sharma and off-spinner Washington Sundar helped India enter the Twenty20 tri-series final with a 17-run win over Bangladesh in Colombo on Wednesday
Assad may win Syria's war, but he will preside over a broken country
(CNN)In the summer of 2015, President Bashar al-Assad was in trouble. His army -- fighting on multiple fronts amid desertion and exhaustion -- was losing ground. Islamist rebel groups were threatening to cut key routes connecting regime strongholds. And then an Iranian general went to Moscow
Dog bound for Kansas mistakenly shipped to Japan via United Airlines
(CNN)United Airlines wrongly shipped a Kansas-bound pet dog to Japan, the second embarrassment this week for the airline and a "nightmare" for the Swindle family -- who are moving from Oregon to Wichita with their beloved pet, a 10-year-old German shepherd named Irgo.
