AUGUST 17, 2021
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India is in the middle of a startup boom attracting big investment but funds are hard to come by for smaller businesses. And most startups lack big hairy audacious goals (BHAG), as I see while mentoring many incubated ventures. Formulating BHAGs is a skill we...
AUGUST 17, 2021
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani looks on at a meeting at the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul on July 28, 2021. (Sajjad Hussain / AFP - Getty Images file)
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani once promised to rebuild Afghanistan. On Sunday, he fled the country within hours of the Taliban entering the country’s capital Kabul, leaving...
AUGUST 17, 2021
Brief Scorecard: India 364 (Rahul 129, Rohit 83, Anderson 5-62) & 298 for 8 dec. (Rahane 61, Shami 56*, Wood 3-51) beat England 391 (Root 180*, Bairstow 57, Siraj 4-94) & 120 (Root 33, Siraj 4-32, Bumrah 3-33) by 151 runs
AS JOE Root crouched in dejection after getting out, the wicket-taker Jasprit Bumrah rushed towards him, his...
AUGUST 16, 2021
Haiti earthquake damage. - Jonathan Alpeyrie/Bloomberg via Getty
As Haiti continues to grapple with the aftermath of Saturday's 7.2-magnitude earthquake, the Caribbean nation is bracing for potential flooding and landslides from an approaching storm.
On Sunday, the death toll jumped from 304 to at least 1,297, according to CBS News. Additionally, at least 2,800 people have been injured...
AUGUST 16, 2021
A member of the US Armed Forces administers a shot of the Pfizer vaccine at a FEMA community vaccination center in Philadelphia. Mark Makela/Getty Images
The CDC has said COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are not necessary at this time.
Studies show vaccines are highly effective at preventing hospitalization and death.
Still, a government document obtained...
AUGUST 15, 2021
FILE PHOTO: General view of the consular section at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. - Reuters/STRINGER
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul said in a security alert on Sunday that the security situation in the Afghan capital was changing quickly, including at the airport, where there were reports of gunfire as U.S. troops aid an evacuation of most...
AUGUST 15, 2021
Canadian PM Trudeau visits Charlottetown. - Reuters/JOHN MORRIS
OTTAWA, CANADA - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday called an early election for Sept. 20, saying he needed a new mandate to ensure voters approved of his Liberal government's plan to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Canada's Prime Minister Trudeau announces federal election, in Ottawa. -...
AUGUST 15, 2021
During the 2020 political campaign, President Biden presented himself as a globe-trotting leader who had helmed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, served as President Barack Obama’s point man on complex international issues and who was determined to bring a steady hand to national security.
Yet the turmoil that has engulfed Afghanistan, which has led Mr. Biden to send...
AUGUST 15, 2021
Trader John Panin, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. Stocks rose in morning trading on Wall Street Tuesday as energy companies and banks clawed back some of the ground they lost a day earlier. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Stocks rose to fresh highs Wednesday to extend gains from a...
AUGUST 11, 2021
Danilo Lima Flower of Triantha occidentalis in a bog at Cypress Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.
An unassuming herb found on the western coast of North America known as Triantha occidentalis, or western false asphodel, has now joined the ranks of carnivorous plants.
Scientists affixed fruit flies to the sticky stems of T. occidentalis growing in a bog near...
