In honor of an upcoming summit between US President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a barber in Hanoi, Vietnam, is offering free haircuts to anyone wanting a copy of the leaders distinctive locks. Tuan Duong Beauty Academy is running the promotion as thousands of officials and journalists descend on the Vietnamese capital for the summit.

Three pro-EU lawmakers from Britain’s governing Conservatives quit over the government’s ’disastrous handling of Brexit’. The lawmakers said in a statement they would join a new ’Independent group’ in parliament set up by seven former opposition Labour politicians. The resignations put May in an even weaker position in parliament.

President Putin was quoted saying Russia will deploy a new hypersonic missile for its navy as part of a plan to modernize military capabilities. The missile has the capability to fly at nine times of the speed of sound with a range of 1,000 kilometers. Putin said Russia will target new weapons at the US, were it to deploy new missiles in Europe following the withdrawal from a arms control pact.

A convoy of trucks carrying civilians was reported to have left the last enclave held by Islamic State militants in eastern Syria. At least eight trucks emerged Wednesday from the tip of a corridor used in past weeks for the evacuation.

Egypt executed nine suspected Muslim Brotherhood members after they had been convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of the country’s top prosecutor. The nine were found guilty of taking part in the bombing that killed Hisham Barakat. Amnesty International on Tuesday called on Egypt to halt the executions.

A high school student from Covington, Kentucky, sued the Washington Post for defamation on Tuesday, claiming the newspaper falsely accused him of racist acts. The lawsuit, filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann, 16, seeks $250 million in damages. The lawsuit claims that the newspaper ’wrongfully targeted and bullied’ him to advance its bias against President Trump.

A winter storm is expected to batter states east of the Mississippi River early Wednesday. While the Central Plains was set to see the bulk of its snow in the overnight hours, cities including Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and Washington are expected to get the worst of the storm on Wednesday. The winter storm is expected to end Thursday.

A statue inspired by the iconic photograph of a World War II sailor kissing a woman in Times Square, New York City, was vandalized days after the sailor in the photograph died. The statue in Sarasota, Florida, had ’#MeToo’ emblazoned in red spray paint on the woman’s left leg. The sailor in the photograph, George Mendonsa, died at the age of 95 on Sunday.

Investigators said a man beat his fiancee to death with a baseball bat, convinced a woman he was having an affair with to clean up the bloody crime scene and then burned the victim’s remains. Krystal Jean Lee Kenney, 32, from Idaho, confessed she and Patrick Frazee were having a romantic relationship and he wanted her to kill Kelsey Berreth, the mother of his 1-year-old daughter.

An employee of Grand Canyon National Parks claims the park covered up the discovery of a cache of highly radioactive uranium that may have exposed employees and visitors to radiation. Park officials allegedly formed a ’secrecy pact’ to cover up the fact that three large drums of uranium had been stored in the Grand Canyon’s museum building for 18 years.

President Trump on Tuesday took a step needed for lawmakers to begin the process of creating a US Space Force. Trump signed Space Policy Directive 4, putting in place the foundation for a legislative initiative that could establish a Space Force as a new military service. Establishing the Space Force will require Congressional approval.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said in an interview Tuesday that he believes it is possible that President Trump is a Russian asset. McCabe said that in the past the FBI had a good reason to launch a counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump was working with Russia and was a possible national security threat. He said he’s keen to see the findings of Mueller’s investigation.

Senator Bernie Sanders announced on Tuesday he is running for president, launching a second bid for the White House. Sanders, 77, made the announcement in an interview in his home state of Vermont. Referring to Trump as ’a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe’, Sanders addressed his followers to come together and complete the ’political revolution’ they had started.

US President Trump said on Tuesday he wants North Korea to end its nuclear program, but has no pressing time schedule for this. Trump said sanctions against North Korea would remain in place in the meantime. He noted Pyongyang’s freeze in nuclear and missile testing since 2017, saying as long as that was in place, he was in ’no rush’.

A French court ordered Swiss bank UBS to pay more than 3.7 billion euros ($4.2 billion) in fines for helping wealthy French clients evade tax authorities. The court convicted UBS AG on Wednesday of aggravated money laundering and illegal bank soliciting. UBS slammed the ruling and vowed to appeal.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Tuesday disclosed he has taken a 10 per cent stake in Caesars Entertainment. The activist investor said in a filing with the SEC that he wants representation on Caesars’ board and is pushing to refrain the company from immediately appointing a new CEO. He said he is pushing the casino giant to sell itself, as the best way to boost its undervalued shares.

India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday found Anil Ambani, chairman of Reliance Communications, guilty of contempt of court for wilfully failing to pay 5.5 billion rupees ($77.29 million) to Ericsson. The court has ordered the billionaire to pay 4.5 billion rupees to Ericsson within four weeks or risk a three-month jail term.

UK’s competition regulator has dealt a fatal blow to Sainsbury’s planned $9.5 billion takeover of Walmart’s Asda, saying it was unlikely the companies would be able to address its concerns. Sainsbury’s, Britain’s second-biggest supermarket group, and number three Asda agreed the deal last April. The regulator said the deal could lead to a worse experience for in-store and online shoppers.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke in favor of decentralized currency, stating that a day could come when it will eventually replace paper money. Saying Bitcoin has ’quite brilliant structure’ Musk said crypto bypasses currency controls and is a far better way to transfer values. He said, however, his companies are not yet involved in using and applying this technology.

Binance has launched the testnet of its new decentralized exchange, Binance DEX. As per an official release, the exchange, powered by Binance Chain — a new blockchain and peer-to-peer (p2p) distributed system — is already available for customers. Users can create wallets and start exchanging tokens on the Binance DEX testnet.