Catalans vote to split from Spain amid violent crackdowns at the polls
Barcelona (CNN)The Catalan government said it earned the right to independence from Spain after a contested referendum exploded into violence Sunday.
Trump's whiplash weekend heightens questions over leadership
(CNN)In the span of seventy-two hours, President Donald Trump has fumed and fired a health chief with a penchant for taxpayer-funded private jets, bragged about a recovery process in Puerto Rico that bears little resemblance to reality on the ground
Two women accused of murdering Kim Jong Nam plead not guilty
Kuala Lumpur (CNN)Two young women pleaded not guilty in a Malaysian court Monday morning charged with the murder of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother, Kim Jong Nam.
Three years after Umbrella Movement, Hong Kongers back on the streets
Hong Kong (CNN)Almost three years to the day after the 2014 Umbrella Movement shut down parts of Hong Kong, thousands of people once again took to the streets Sunday.
In Iraq's tinderbox city, referendum sparks fears of sectarian war
Kirkuk, Iraq (CNN)Major Adnan Majeed stands in front of a cement wall scrawled with the names of Kurdish fighters killed by ISIS. A mural of the Kurdish flag with a rising sun at its center, blanketed with specks of sand, forms the heart of this makeshift memorial.
Price out as HHS secretary after private plane scandal
Washington (CNN)Tom Price, the embattled health and human services secretary, resigned Friday in the midst of a scandal over his use of private planes, a storm that enraged President Donald Trump and undercut his promise to bring accountability to Washington.
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.
