SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
FILE PHOTO: Stickers bearing the Facebook logo are pictured at Facebook Inc's F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S., April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Stephen Lam
CALIFORNIA - Facebook Inc (FB.O) is opening up its face recognition technology to all users with an option to opt out, the social media company said on Tuesday, as it discontinued a related...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
During Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to the Russian city of Vladivostok beginning Wednesday, India and Russia are expected to firm up a five-year roadmap for deeper cooperation in the oil and gas sector apart from sealing a raft of agreements in several key areas.
In his departure statement ahead of his visit to Russia, Modi...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2019: R.S., a 21-year-old immigrant from El Salvador, who received asylum last August 2018, at his aunt's home in Los Angeles, Calif., on July 23, 2019. The Trump administration recently changed asylum rules for unaccompanied minors, and R.S. wouldn't have qualified if he were applying now. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)
LOS ANGELES,...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
An police officer walks early Sept. 3, 2019 under tape near where four men were shot during an outdoor party late Monday. They were gathered with others outside in the 6200 block of South King Drive when two gunmen jumped out of a white Ford Explorer, opened fire and fled, police said. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
Brief Scorecard: India 416 (Kohli 76, Vihari 111, Ishant 57, Holder 5-77, Cornwall 3-105) and 168 for 4 dec. (Rahane 64*, Vihari 53*, Roach 3-28) beat West Indies 117 (Hetmyer 34, Bumrah 6-27, Shami 2-34) and 210 (Brooks 50, Blackwood 38, Holder 39, Shami 3-65, Jadeja 3-58) by 257 runs
Virat Kohli is literally over the moon after...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
Phillip Lee has quit the Tories after 27 years as a member of the party. - AFP
Boris Johnson has officially lost his majority in the House of Commons after a Tory MP defected to the Lib Dems - right in front of his face.
The humiliated Prime Minister had to shout over roars of support today as...
SEPTEMBER 1, 2019
The Trump administration slapped tariffs of 15% on $112 billion worth of Chinese goods including footwear, apparel, televisions, and video game consoles on Sunday.
Shoppers are about to feel the pain. Americans could face $1,000 in extra costs a year thanks to the latest US tariffs on Chinese goods, JPMorgan says. The bank pegged the cost of the...
SEPTEMBER 1, 2019
If planting more trees can replenish forests and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, then could we also repopulate the Arctic with ice?
That's a question posed by a team of Indonesian designers with an eye-catching response to the climate crisis: iceberg-making submarines.
The idea, recently named runner-up in an international design competition appealing for radical approaches to sustainability,...
AUGUST 31, 2019
Brief Scorecard - Tea Time: India 416 all out (Vihari 111, Kohli 76, Ishant 57, Holder 5-77, Cornwall 3-105) v West Indies
Hanuma Vihari jumps to celebrate his maiden Test century - AFP / Getty Images
Hanuma Vihari's first Test hundred and Ishant Sharma's maiden Test fifty helped India finish on 416, with an early tea taken on...
AUGUST 30, 2019
The Australian federal government has downgraded its long-term outlook of the Great Barrier Reef to "very poor," and it says that climate change is the most significant threat. - William West /AFP/Getty Images
A major Australian government report is warning that the time to take action to protect the Great Barrier Reef's long-term future is now.
The Australian federal...
