On Monday 29 January 2018, Bangladesh government approved the much talked-about draft of the ‘Digital Security Act-2018’. The government claimed that the Digital Security Law was formulated to combat growing cybercrimes affecting many public and private organizations including the central bank.

Arthur Wagner, a leading member of the party in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, said he would not comment on his reason for leaving the party, but confirmed to a Berlin daily that he had converted to Islam and that he had renounced his party membership on 11 January.

 Trump in his State of the Union address promised to fix bad trade deals raising the prospect of protectionist policies amongst allies. He also pledged to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal and instructed Mattis to keep the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay open 

On 26 January 2018, The Guardian Newspaper reported that “Rough sleeping in England has increased for the seventh consecutive year, official figures show, and charities say even this steep rise fails to capture the true level of street homelessness… The separate Chain database, which records rough sleepers in London seen by outreach workers, last June reported 8,108 rough sleepers.”