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.
Even for a place that gets a ton of snow, this was a record-breaking two days for Erie
(CNN)There's White Christmas. And then there's Whiteout Christmas. Erie, Pennsylvania, experienced the latter on Monday, when a total of 34 inches of snow fell on Christmas Day, blanketing the city and shattering the city's previous records for snowfall in a single day
Defence argument continuing in Zia orphanage graft case
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s defence lawyer is placing his closing arguments before a court in Dhaka on Tuesday for the fourth day in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.
Blogger accused of ‘disrespecting Prophet’ held at Dhaka airport
Immigration police arrested a blogger who is accused in a case filed under the Information Communication Technology Act with Amtali police station of Barguna at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Monday night
Feb 24 and 25 SSC exams to be rescheduled for DNCC by-polls
The Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent examinations of Dhaka Board of February 24 and 25 will be rescheduled to March due to the by-polls of Dhaka North City Corporation.
FF Faruk’s wife aspires to be AL candidate from Tangail-5
Wife of slain Awami League leader Faruk Ahmed on Tuesday announced her aspiration to be the party’s candidate for the next general election from Tangail -5 (Sadar) constituency. Nahar Ahmed came up with the announcement at a press briefing at Tangail Press Club this morning.
Singer Shafin to vie for mayor post
Popular band singer Shafin Ahmed will contest in the by-polls to the Dhaka North City Corporation mayoral post.Chairman of newly formed Nationalist Democratic Movement, Bobby Hajjaj, on Tuesday announced singer Shafin's name as candidate at a press conference at National Press Club.
