MAY 23, 2021
US President Biden during a visit to the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Mich., on Tuesday. Electric vehicles are included in Mr. Biden’s climate plan, but the most crucial part is a clean electricity standard. - Doug Mills/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The linchpin of President Biden’s climate plan faces a perilous path through the...
MAY 23, 2021
NEW DELHI, INDIA - MAY 10: Delhi Police personnel screening commuters for violations at Seema Puri Border during a Covid-19 curfew on May 10, 2021 in New Delhi, India. In an effort to check the rising Covid-19 cases, Delhi government has extended the lockdown in the national capital for another week till May 17. Delhi Metro services...
MAY 23. 2021
US President Joe Biden, left, and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in participate in an expanded bilateral meeting at the White House, in Washington, May 21, 2021. - Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Despite fighting in the Middle East dominating headlines this week, President Joe Biden on Friday kept his focus on Asia while hosting South Korea's president at the White House...
MAY 20, 2021
A home Covid testing kit will be available in India, for the first time ever, from next week onwards at a nominal price of Rs 250.
In an advisory issued Wednesday, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) allowed the use of CoviSelf, the home testing kit manufactured by Mylab Discovery Solutions. The Pune-based molecular diagnostic firm was...
MAY 18, 2021
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) addresses reporters outside the White House after his Oval Office meeting with President Joe Biden on May 12, 2021 in Washington, D.C. McCarthy's office on Tuesday announced he would not support legislation to form a bipartisan Jan. 6 commission. - Drew Angerer/Getty Images
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday announced...
MAY 17, 2021
FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2014 file photo, people pass an AT&T store in New York's Times Square. AT&T will combine its media operations that include CNN HBO, TNT and TBS in a $43 billion deal with Discovery, the owner of lifestyle networks including the Food Network and HGTV. The deal announced Monday, May 17, 2021,...
MAY 16, 2021
Unloading oxygen canisters, a precious commodity in India, at a New Delhi hospital this month.- Atul Loke/NY Times
Failing System — NEW DELHI — Within the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak, few treasures are more coveted than an empty oxygen canister. India’s hospitals desperately need the metal cylinders to store and transport the lifesaving gas as patients across...
MAY 16, 2021
On the demise of Tashi Namgyal in 1963, his second son, Palden Thondup Namgyal, took over as the twelfth ruler of the Namgyal dynasty of Sikkim. Thondup was originally slated to be ordained as a Buddhist monk, and was trained as such till he was eleven, having been recognized as a reincarnated Rinpoche. In 1941, he was...
MAY 15, 2021
Australia's Cameron Bancroft is questioned by the umpires. - GIANLUIGI GUERCIA
Cricket Australia Sunday said it was open to examining any new information about the 2018 ball-tampering scandal after Cameron Bancroft suggested the team's bowlers were aware it was going on.
Bancroft served a nine-month ban after being caught on television hiding yellow sandpaper, which had been used to...
MAY 15, 2021
The University of California at Berkeley. - lucentius/iStockphoto/Getty Images
The University of California system will no longer require SAT and ACT scores for admission after reaching a settlement agreement, a statement from the UC system said.
UC first announced the new policy on April 1, 2020, for incoming freshman in fall of 2021, and in May of 2020 the...
