AUGUST 5, 2019
Brief Scorecard: Australia 284 (Smith 144, Broad 5-86) and 487 for 7 dec (Smith 142, Wade 110, Head 51) beat England 374 (Burns 133, Root 57, Stokes 50) and 146 (Lyon 6-49, Cummins 4-32) by 251 runs
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - Australia turned 'Fortress Edgbaston' into a Lyon's den as they drew first blood in the Ashes with a...
AUGUST 5, 2019
Former President Obama on Monday called for action in response to back-to-back mass shootings over the weekend and urged Americans to "soundly reject" leaders who feed "a climate of fear and hatred."
The former president issued a lengthy statement after more than 30 people were killed in mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. He did...
AUGUST 4, 2019
Sherie Gramlich attends a vigil for victims of a mass shooting Saturday in El Paso. - John Locher/AP
Two mass shootings that left 29 dead in the United States this weekend have prompted condemnation across the world and drawn comparisons between the suspected racist motives behind one of the shootings and President Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric.
On Saturday, 20 people...
AUGUST 4, 2019
Earth as viewed by #Chandrayaan2 LI4 Camera on August 3, 2019. - Gulf News
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has just released the first pictures of the Earth captured by Chandrayaan 2, India’s second Moon mission.
According to the tweets, the pictures were captured by the LI4 camera on board Chandrayaan 2, that was launched on July...
AUGUST 3, 2019
The pilots were arrested before boarding a scheduled flight to New York
Two United Airlines pilots have been arrested at Glasgow Airport for allegedly failing a breath test before boarding a flight to New York.
The men, aged 45 and 61, have not been charged but remain in custody and are expected to appear before Paisley Sheriff Court...
AUGUST 3, 2019
Brief Scorecard: India 98 for 6 (Rohit 24, Narine 2-14, Cottrell 2-20) beat West Indies 95 for 9 (Pollard 49, Saini 3-17, Bhuvneshwar 2-19) by four wicket
Debutant Navdeep Saini belts out an appeal - Getty Images
FLORIDA, USA - India and West Indies began their month-long contest with a scrappy first T20I in Lauderhill: 15 wickets fell and...
AUGUST 3, 2019
The stock market had a rough week after trade tensions with China resumed. - (Richard Drew / AP)
Investors rattled by President Trump’s latest escalation in his trade war with China drove another round of selling on Wall Street on Friday.
The benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 index had its fifth straight daily drop, wrapping up its worst week...
AUGUST 3, 2019
Plastic bottles of water are seen for sale at a store Friday, Aug. 2, 2019, in San Francisco. San Francisco International Airport is banning the sale of single-use plastic water bottles. The unprecedented move at one of the major airports in the country will take effect Aug. 20, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday. The new rule...
AUGUST 2, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to impose a 10% tariff on $300 billion of Chinese imports from Sept. 1, sharply escalating a bruising trade war between the world's largest economies and jolting financial markets.
The announcement on Thursday extends Trump's trade tariffs to nearly all of the Chinese goods the United States imports and marks...
AUGUST 2, 2019
FILE - This undated file photo provided Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, by Russian Defense Ministry official web site shows a Russian Iskander-K missile launched during a military exercise at a training ground at the Luzhsky Range, near St. Petersburg, Russia. A landmark arms control treaty that President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed three decades...
