JUNE 8, 2019
International Business Machine Corp has decided to fire about 2,000 employees in the United States over "non-performance". The latest decision comes days after tech behemoth's India unit fired nearly 300 employees from its services division. The Armonk-based tech giant said a "small percentage" of employees who have not been able to perform well at a competitive level...
JUNE 8, 2019
Brief Scorecard: New Zealand 173 for 3 (Williamson 79* Taylor 48, Alam 3-45) beat Afghanistan 172 (Shahidi 59, Neesham 5-31, Ferguson 4-37) by seven wickets
James Neesham is clapped off the pitch at the end of the Afghanistan innings. - Getty Images
TAUNTON, ENGLAND - New Zealand cruised to an easy 7-wicket win over Afghanistan to register their 3rd...
JUNE 8, 2019
MALDIVES - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday landed in the Maldives on his first foreign visit after being re-elected as Prime Minister to strengthen the bilateral ties, reflecting the importance India attaches to its ‘neighbourhood first’ policy.
Upon his arrival this evening, Modi was greeted at Male airport by Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid and also received a...
JUNE 8, 2019
Brief Scorecard: England 386 for 6 (Roy 153, Buttler 64, Bairstow 51) beat Bangladesh 280 (Shakib 121, Stokes 3-23) by 106 runs
Jason Roy celebrates his century - Getty Images
CARDIFF, ENGLAND - Jason Roy hit the highest individual score of the World Cup so far as England got their campaign back on track with a 106-run win...
JUNE 8, 2019
Grinnell Glacier is pictured at the turnaround point of an 11-mile round-trip hike in Glacier National Park in Montana on Sept. 5, 2017. According to the National Park Service, the park's glacial ice sheets are a fraction of the size they were 100 years ago, and they are melting so fast that they will all be gone...
JUNE 8, 2018
Chinese President Xi Jinping had the ultimate tour guide on his visit to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum this week: His "bosom friend," Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin released photos late Thursday of Putin showing Xi around his hometown, the former imperial capital of tsarist Russia. The Chinese leader saw works from the Renaissance collection of...
JUNE 7, 2019
President Trump speaks before signing a policy directive to send American astronauts back to the moon, and eventually Mars, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Dec. 11, 2017, in Washington. - Evan Vucci/AP
President Trump on Friday sharply criticized NASA for promoting its plan to return to the moon before exploring Mars, a strategy...
JUNE 6, 2019
SUV production at a General Motors plant in Arlington, Tex. - Matthew Busch/Bloomberg
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The world’s largest automakers warned President Trump on Thursday that one of his most sweeping deregulatory efforts — his plan to weaken tailpipe pollution standards — threatens to cut their profits and produce “untenable” instability in a crucial manufacturing sector.
In a letter...
JUNE 6, 2019
How many robocalls are you expecting today? - Jason Schneider
The agency is giving wireless carriers the green light to "aggressively block" these annoying calls by default.
Americans are fed up with robocalls. And the Federal Communications Commission are giving carriers like Verizon and T-Mobile the power to do something about it.
On Thursday, the FCC voted unanimously on a...
JUNE 6, 2019
Brief Scorecard: Australia 288 (Coulter Nile 92, Smith 73, Brathwaite 3-67) beat West Indies 273 for 9 (Hope 68, Holder 51, Starc 5-46) by 15 runs
NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND - Australia survived a top-order failure to bounce back spectacularly and beat West Indies by 15 runs at Trent Bridge on Thursday to record their second victory of the...
