Ousted Catalan leader urges Madrid to accept results, negotiate
(CNN)The former leader of Catalonia urged Madrid to enter political negotiations following a regional election that gave pro-independence parties a majority in the Catalan parliament.
Israel plans a Trump rail station as Trump-naming frenzy sweeps country
Jerusalem (CNN)A planned high-speed rail station in the Old City of Jerusalem will be named after President Donald Trump, Israeli Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz told CNN.
How serious is the North Korean anthrax threat?
(CNN)The US sanctioned two more senior North Korean officials Tuesday, the latest attempt to hit the country's nuclear program.But in South Korea, another deadly weapon is back in the headlines, one that is far easier and cheaper to make: anthrax.
Congo and Uganda kill dozens of rebels suspected in UN killings
(CNN)A joint Ugandan and Congolese military operation killed more than 100 militants aligned with a rebel group believed to be responsible for the killings of 15 peacekeepers earlier this month in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ugandan military said Wednesday.
Plane returns to LAX after flying with wrong passenger for hours
(CNN)Chrissy Teigen and other Tokyo-bound passengers ended up right where they started after eight hours of flying: Los Angeles.The model and TV personality tweeted about enduring her "flight to nowhere" Tuesday night after All Nippon Airways Flight 175 made a U-turn and headed back to Los Angeles.
How exactly does a passenger get on the wrong flight?
(CNN)How exactly does a passenger get on the wrong flight and go unnoticed for hours? That's the question that Chrissy Teigen and many others are asking in the wake of a passenger mix-up that caused a Tokyo-bound flight to return to Los Angeles after eight hours in the air.
Haley touts reduced UN budget
(CNN)US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Sunday touted a quarter billion dollar cut to the UN's annual budget, capping off a contentious year between the Trump administration and the international body
Big league 2018 goal: Trump hopes for bipartisan infrastructure deal
West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)President Donald Trump, looking ahead to a critical election year where his record will be on the ballot alongside Republican lawmakers, plans a major push on infrastructure in January, aides said this week.
Medical evacuations begin from rebel-held Damascus suburb
(CNN)Evacuations of the first critical medical cases from a rebel-held region east of Damascus have begun, aid agencies say.The Syrian Red Crescent and International Committee of the Red Cross announced, on their official Twitter accounts Tuesday, that the first patients were to be taken out of the rebel-controlled area of Eastern Ghouta.
British tourist gets 3-year sentence in Egypt on drug smuggling charge
(CNN)A British woman who says she was carrying painkillers for her ailing partner was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison and fined the equivalent of $5,611 by an Egyptian court.
