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Nick Ayers, chief of staff to the vice-president, will reportedly return to his home state of Georgia.
Mikhail Popkov, 53, murdered 55 women and a policeman near Irkutsk between 1992 and 2007. He was already in jail for 22 other murders.
On 70th anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Nils Melzer says global community has failed to learn lessons of second world war.
UN summit urged to end all coal burning and introduce substantial taxes on emissions.
Lebanon has been hit hard by the regional turmoil which has contributed to spasms of political paralysis. More than six months since an election, rival leaders have been unable to agree on the make-up of a new unity government.
Jerry Hart, 47, caught the cab to the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, on Tuesday morning but left his small white neck bag on the passenger seat.
In a candid statement to mark her 55th birthday on Sunday, Masako vowed to do her best to fulfill her duties when her husband, Crown Prince Naruhito, succeeds his 84-year-old father, Akihito, to the throne in April 2019.
This marks a rare case of a serving governor leaving his job midway through his five-year term.
Hundreds of Jews questioned by the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency said they had experienced a physical, anti-Semitic attack in the past year, while 28% said they had been harassed.
Lil' Bill, from Mississippi, in the US, weighs a teeny-weeny 4.5kg which is the same as a domestic cat, nearly a tenth of other cows his age and 300 times lighter than Knickers.
Trump, faced with a budget deficit at a six-year high, told his Cabinet earlier this year to come up with proposals to cut spending by their agencies by 5 percent, but he suggested the military would be largely spared.
Jesse Kempson, 26, sat just yards away from Ms Millane's family – believed to include her millionaire property developer father David and an uncle – as they attended his first appearance at the District court in Auckland.
The 26-year-old man who goes by the handle MrDeadMoth was arrested after someone saw the video and reported it to police.
It's expected that President Donald Trump's energy adviser, Wells Griffith, will take part in the COP24 event.
The roo was rescued as a joey after his mother was killed in a car accident, and grew up at the Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs in Australia.
SpaceX coordinated with the Eastern Range for a launch on Thursday, Jan 17. This adjustment allows the return of the Dragon spacecraft from the company’s 16th commercial resupply services mission.
Miss Millane, 22, disappeared in Auckland on 1 December - police ended their search on Sunday after finding a body in the outskirts of the city.
Mr Mallya, who left India in March 2016 after defaulting on debts worth more than $1bn (£785m), will appear in a London court on Monday.
Amanda Sparrow Large, 46, first appeared in the spotlight when she legally married the Haitian pirate by a shaman priest earlier this year.
Nissan, which fired Ghosn as chairman a few days later, has said the misconduct was masterminded by the once-celebrated executive with the help of former Representative Director Greg Kelly, who was indicted along with Ghosn, according to the reports.
The boy's parents found the photos on his phone and told police about them last week.
Just over a week ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded the extradition and on Wednesday a Turkish court issued arrest warrants.
Miss Millane disappeared in Auckland on 1 December - police ended their search on Sunday after finding a body on the outskirts of the city.
Days of lavish celebrations are taking place to mark the marriage of the daughter of India’s richest man.
President to break silence as Paris counts cost of 'social and economic catastrophe'.
The survey, taken during a period of extreme gyrations in global financial markets, also found it was a close call for economists on whether the ECB would hike its main refinancing rate in a year’s time, and it may be pushed into early 2020. The rate is currently zero.
A government source said on Friday that the Italian ruling coalition aimed to send a revised budget to the EU on Wednesday.
The president also said there were no plans to alter the new mining code in the foreseeable future.
Officers fired rubber bullets and hundreds of canisters of tear gas at the demonstrators, some of whom had set vehicles on fire.
Allegations have been made by several former players and Kelly Lindsey, the American former head coach of the team.
Strapped into rollercoaster-like seats, the Santa in the Sky patrons dine next to prancing reindeer models and a mannequin of jolly St Nicholas far above the city's busy traffic.
A huge gopher tortoise that was recently admitted to a wildlife clinic in Florida may have broken the state record for size.
Officials announced the discovery earlier this week, explaining that the artifacts were found at the ancient city of Caesarea on Israel’s coast.
Aaron Urbanski was arrested for trespass after officers were called to a church in Cleburne, North Texas, which was hosting breakfast with Father Christmas.
Macron is facing mounting criticism for not appearing in public in over a week as violence worsened.
The one-day annual gathering of leaders from the six member states is expected to focus on security issues, including the Yemen war and Iran’s regional activities, and may touch on oil politics and a protracted boycott of Qatar by some neighbors.
An opposition alliance called Saturday’s protest after assailants recently beat up and seriously injured a leftist party leader and his associates in a southern Serbian city.
According to an animal rescue group, K9 Paw Print Rescue, a family that was finally able to come back to where their house once stood found their dog waiting for them.
Most of them were French - seven were Trappist monks, and one a bishop.
Kushner offered the de facto Saudi ruler advice "about how to weather the storm" following the death of Khashoggi, the Times reported on Saturday, citing a Saudi source familiar with the conversations.
She passed away in a Moscow hospital at 16:30 GMT on Saturday, Russia's human rights council said.
Det Insp Scott Beard said the body was "believed to be Grace" but was yet to be formally identified.
Research cited by Sandy Hook Promise counted 94 incidents, a near 60% increase on the previous high, 59, set in 2006.
Security forces put 8,000 on the streets of the capital to quell fears of rioting.
The United States is encouraging the Yemeni government, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement to fully engage in peace talks taking place in Sweden, said Timothy Lenderking, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Arabian Gulf Affairs.
The executive is the daughter of the founder of Huawei.
TUI Airways comes top of 2018 Atmosfair Airline Index while Virgin Atlantic ranks 83rd.
The government says the laws, a world first, are necessary to help combat terrorism and crime.
The Bloodhound supersonic vehicle - built with a Rolls-Royce Eurofighter jet engine bolted to a rocket - is all but finished.
Carlos García Juliá was arrested as he was walking down a street, official said, and Spain is expected to request extradition.
Airline says program is not about cutting costs but unions accuse it of 'shocking corporate greed'.
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