Another White House Staffer Resigns

US President Donald Trump's top economic adviser Gary Cohn is resigning, the White House has said. It is the latest in a series of high-profile departures from President Trump's team.

Today more than three million people in Sierra Leone are called to vote in crucial presidential, legislative and local council elections. No political campaigning was allowed on the eve of the vote. In a country still recovering from a bitter civil war, there's been much focus on the need to maintain peaceful campaigns throughout the country.

The British government's top emergency committee will meet on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing investigation into a poisoning incident that left a former Russian spy and his daughter critically ill. Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found slumped on a bench in the city of Salisbury two days ago.