DECEMBER 22, 2019
Brief Scorecard: India 316 for 6 (Kohli 85, Rahul 77, Sharma 63, Paul 3-59) beat West Indies 315 for 5 (Pooran 89, Pollard 74*, Saini 2-58) by four wickets
Virat Kohli drives through the off side. - BCCI
CUTTACK - West Indies' tour of India ended the way it began: denied by the bat of Virat Kohli after they...
DECEMBER 22, 2019
A consumer privacy law set to take effect in California is likely to become the de facto US standard in the absence of federal legislation
As US lawmakers head home without agreeing on consumer privacy legislation, a new California law is set to become the de facto national standard, potentially leaving consumers and businesses confused over rules for...
DECEMBER 22, 2019
Demonstrators attend a protest against a new citizenship law, outside the Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, - Reuters/ANUSHREE FADNAVIS
NEW DELHI, INDIA - Following days of violent, sometimes deadly protests across India against a new citizenship law critics say discriminates against Muslims, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led a rally on Sunday for his Hindu nationalist party...
DECEMBER 22, 2019
The Aldar Building in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where the Emirates’ signals intelligence agency and Pax AI, a data mining firm linked to ToTok, have their offices. - Ben Job/Reuters
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is billed as an easy and secure way to chat by video or text message with friends and family, even in a country...
DECEMBER 22, 2019
Michael R. Bloomberg casting his vote for mayor in 2001. A review of that race makes plain that Mr. Bloomberg’s political origin story owes to almost supernaturally improbable conditions.
Michael R. Bloomberg was not entirely picky.
By the late 1990s, financially mega-secure and professionally restless, the billionaire businessman had told friends that four jobs on earth could tempt him...
DECEMBER 21, 2019
“California was the place, the big destination, for people around the country and around the world,” says the Brookings Institution’s William Frey. “It’s lost its luster a little bit. - (Luis Sinco / LA Times)
CALIFORNIA - The Golden State remains stuck in the slow lane when it comes to population.
The number of Californians increased to 39.96 million,...
DECEMBER 21, 2019
FILE: North Korean soldiers visit the Mansu Hill to lay flowers to the bronze statues of their late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. North Koreans mark the eighth death anniversary of Kim Jong Il with usual floral offerings at the foot of the giant statues of...
DECEMBER 21, 2019
FILE PHOTO: Allseas' deep sea pipe laying ship Solitaire lays pipes for Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea September 13, 2019. REUTERS/Stine Jacobsen/File Photo
MOSCOW - Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that Moscow will press ahead with a major Russia-to-Germany natural gas pipeline, disregarding U.S. sanctions.
“Russia has implemented and will continue to implement its economic...
DECEMBER 21, 2019
Scientists have uncovered the world's oldest forest after discovering the remnants of trees in fossils dating back 386 million years.
The fossils were found in a sandstone quarry in Cairo, New York.
The researchers say they provide evidence of an extensive network of trees, which would have spread from New York all the way into Pennsylvania and beyond.
They have...
DECEMBER 21, 2019
Union Home Minister Amit Shah - Photo by Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
NEW DELHI - In a move to counter the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act stir, the BJP Saturday announced that it would launch a mass contact programme to "expose Opposition parties' lies" and assure them that the new legislation does not affect existing citizens, news agency...
