Japan hit with deadly floods and landslides; 18 dead
Japan (CNN)At least 18 people were killed and hundreds are still stranded after heavy rains triggered floods and landslides this week in southwest Japan, according to Japanese state-run NHK news agency.
Donald Trump puts US in a club of one
(CNN)It wasn't quite the G19 summit, but President Donald Trump's approach to foreign affairs is severely straining global cohesion on key issues like climate change and free trade, exchanging an aggressive, traditional American leadership role for isolation in a club of one.
Foreign investment at DSE rebounds to Tk 2,268cr in FY17
The net overseas investment at the Dhaka Stock Exchange, the country’s premier bourse, surged by 402 per cent or Tk 1,816 crore in the just concluded financial year 2016-17 compared with that in the previous fiscal year.
Muhith hints at changing fiscal year
Finance minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday hinted at changing the fiscal year against the backdrop of demands by the economists for improving the implementation of the annual development programme.
Transport workers go on indefinite strike at Benapole
Transport workers enforced indefinite strike in Benapole from Saturday morning protesting vandalism in a bus counter and assault on four transport workers.
Dengue panics Dhaka people as chikungunya continues
An early outbreak of dengue has panicked residents of Dhaka, already faced with the menace of chikungunya. At least 325 people were infected with dengue in three months since April in Dhaka while chikungunya, which also broke out in April, became endemic in Dhaka, according to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research.
City buses go desperate
Bus operators seem to have become desperate, as if in competition of traffic rule violation, in the absence of enforcement, leading to frequent accidents in the capital.
Trump, Putin meeting shifts from discourse to discord
(CNN)The challenge for President Donald Trump heading into his biggest diplomatic gut check yet was to hold his own with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mars on Earth: Scientists look to the Danakil Depression for clues to alien life
(CNN)At the juncture of three tectonic plates in northeastern Ethiopia is an other-worldly and sunken plain. The heat quivers here. Rock formations are colored by minerals in oozing volcanic psychedelia. The Danakil Depression is one of the hottest and most hostile places on earth.
Unruly Delta passenger tried to open exit door in flight, complaint alleges
An unruly passenger who authorities say was trying to open an exit door on a Delta Air Lines flight to Beijing fought with the cabin crew and a passenger and was conked over the head by a flight attendant with two wine bottles, a criminal complaint alleges.
