Gymnast McKayla Maroney was paid to keep quiet about abuse, lawsuit says
(CNN)Olympic gold-medal-winning gymnast McKayla Maroney alleges in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Wednesday that USA Gymnastics paid her to be quiet about abuse by the team's longtime doctor Larry Nassar.
Khaleda sends legal notice to PM for ‘defamatory’ remarks
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia has sent a legal notice to prime minister Sheikh Hasina by lawyer for PM’s ‘defamatory’ remarks over siphoning huge amount of wealth to Saudi Arabia.
RANGPUR MAYORAL POLLS Voting tomorrow, electioneering ends
Mayoral and councillor candidates in Rangpur City Corporation election ended their campaigns on Tuesday midnight peacefully amidst allegations of electoral code violation in some places as the voting would be held tomorrow
Safe water, sanitation still elusive
Rohingyas fleeing violence in Rakhine State continued living in Cox’s Bazar camps amid acute shortage of water, food and sanitation facilities with adults eating less so that children could eat, showed International Organisation for Migration report on Tuesday.
ZIA ORPHANAGE TRUST CASE Prosecution seeks highest punishment for Khaleda, Tarique
The prosecution on Tuesday concluded its arguments seeking highest punishment prescribed in the law for all the six accused, including Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.
BB removes Farmers Bank MD Shamim
The Bangladesh Bank on Tuesday removed the managing director and chief executive officer of scam-hit newly-established Farmers Bank, AKM Shamim, over unrelenting disbursement of loans despite a liquidity crisis.
Fog disrupts flight operations at Shahjalal airport
Flight operations at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport were disrupted since early Wednesday due to dense fog, affecting the schedules of over 33 domestic and international flights.
China says Trump's new security policy shows 'Cold War mentality'
Hong Kong (CNN)Everything seemed to be going so well between China and the US. After a successful visit by US President Donald Trump to Beijing earlier this year, relations with Chinese leader Xi Jinping appeared to be at an all time high
Refugees escaping Libya arrive in France
Paris (CNN)The French government stepped up its fight against slavery as the first group of refugees rescued from Libya touched down Tuesday in Paris from Niger. France plans to take in 10,000 refugees by 2019, with 3,000 people coming from a resettlement program in Niger and Chad.
The embryo is just a year younger than the mother who birthed her
(CNN)The longest known frozen human embryo to result in a successful birth was born last month in Tennessee.Emma Wren Gibson, delivered November 25 by Dr. Jeffrey Keenan, medical director of the National Embryo Donation Center, is the result of an embryo originally frozen on October 14, 1992.
