Torture in a Bottle How London became the world capital for acid attacks on young men
London (CNN) -- When two teenage boys threw acid at a food delivery driver and tried to steal his scooter, young Londoners sipping on cocktails at a nearby dim sum bar became their unwitting audience.
Aid groups call for access to Myanmar conflict zone
International aid groups in Myanmar have urged the government to allow free access to Rakhine State, where an army offensive has sent 480,000 people fleeing to Bangladesh but hundreds of thousands remain cut off from food, shelter and medical care.
Fire at six-storey building in Gulshan doused
A fire broke out at an office in city's Gulshan area on Thursday.Ataur Rahman, duty officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence control room, said the fire broke out at the 4th floor of a six-storey building around 8:25am.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner dead at 91
Hugh Hefner -- the silk-robed Casanova whose Playboy men's magazine popularized the term "centerfold," glamorized an urbane bachelor lifestyle and helped spur the sexual revolution of the 1960s -- has died, his company said late Wednesday. He was 91.
Private jets scandal, tax plan test Trump's brand
(CNN)Donald Trump's self styling as the people's champion who would drain the Washington swamp got him to the White House.But now that unique brand is in for a stern test as the President is battered by controversies over wealthy cabinet members living high on the taxpayer dime and as he pushes a tax plan that Democrats are already billing as a massive giveaway to Trump's rich friends.
Trump intends to sign executive order on health care next week
President Trump is taking the future of health insurance into his own hands. A day after Congress' last-ditch attempt to repeal Obamacare failed, Trump said he may soon sign an executive order on health care that would affect millions of people.
Michelle Obama: 'Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice'
(CNN)In candid remarks Wednesday, former first lady Michelle Obama said women who voted for Republican nominee Donald Trump over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton went against their "authentic voice" in the 2016 presidential election.
After defying ISIS, 'Kurds aren't afraid of anything'
Irbil, Iraq (CNN)High-rise buildings surrounded by parks and villas pierce the skyline. Hotels and luxury cars dot the landscape. It would be easy to mistake this place for a neighborhood in uber-rich Dubai, but in fact it is downtown Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
PM undergoes successful gall bladder surgery in Washington
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, now in the United States in connection with the 72nd United Nations National Assembly session, underwent a gall bladder operation in Washington on September 25 night (Washington time).
Govt not making sincere efforts over Rohingya crisis: Fakhrul
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday complained that the government was not making sincere efforts to resolve the Rohingya crisis.
