MAY 1, 2019
Brief Scorecard: Chennai Super Kings 179 for 4 (Raina 59, Dhoni 44*) beat Delhi Capitals 99 (Iyer 44, Tahir 4-12, Jadeja 3-9) by 80 runs
CHENNAI - Rarely do fans celebrate the fall of their own team's batsmen like they do at the MA Chidambaram Stadium here. That is if the next to come in is MS Dhoni.
A...
APRIL 30, 2019
BEATTIE, KANSAS - Shuffling across his frozen fields, farmer Jim Taphorn hunched his shoulders against the wind and squinted at the auctioneer standing next to his tractors. After a fifth harvest with low grain prices, made worse last fall by the U.S.-China trade war, the 68-year-old and his family were calling it quits. Farming also was taking...
APRIL 30, 2019
TOKYO — Three decades after he ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne, Emperor Akihito on Tuesday became Japan’s first monarch in more than two centuries to abdicate, passing the symbolic role to his eldest son in a brief, unadorned ceremony at the Imperial Palace.
Akihito, 85, the son of the wartime emperor Hirohito, relinquished the throne to Crown Prince Naruhito,...
APRIL 30, 2019
General Electric said Tuesday that it generated more profit and lost less cash than expected in the first quarter, suggesting an improving outlook under its new leader that sent its shares up 5 percent.
New CEO Larry Culp cautioned, however, that the results stemmed largely from the timing of payments to suppliers and from customers, and did not...
APRIL 30, 2019
The Ross Ice Shelf is around the same size as France. - DeAgostini/Getty Images
Scientists have discovered that ocean water warmed by the sun is melting part of the world's largest ice shelf 10 times faster than the overall average.
The north-west sector of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, which in total is roughly the size of...
APRIL 30, 2019
FILE PHOTO: The Deutsche Bank headquarters are pictured in Frankfurt, Germany, April 25, 2019. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski/File Photo
President Donald Trump, his three oldest children and the Trump Organization have sued Deutsche Bank AG and Capital One Financial Corp to try to block them from responding to subpoenas issued by U.S. congressional Democrats seeking financial records.
The lawsuit represents a...
APRIL 29, 2019
HOUSTON, TEXAS - Those who look forward to the Olympics every four years had better start getting used to the name Matthew Boling, because the high school runner has future gold medalist written all over him.
Boling, a senior at Strake Jesuit high school in Houston, ran the fastest time ever on Saturday for a high school 100-meter...
APRIL 29, 2019
Brief Scorecard: Sunrisers Hyderabad 212 for 6 (Warner 81, Pandey 36) beat Kings XI Punjab 167 for 8 (Rahul 79, Rashid 3-21, Khaleel 3-40) by 45 runs
David Warner celebrates a half-century in his final IPL 2019 game. - BCCI
HYDERABAD - There might have been very little to separate Kings XI Punjab and Sunrisers Hyderabad going into tonight's...
APRIL 29, 2019
Marine experts in Norway believe they have stumbled upon a white whale that was trained by the Russian navy as part of a programme to use underwater mammals as a special ops force.
Fishermen in waters near the small Norwegian fishing village of Inga reported last week that a white beluga whale wearing a strange harness had begun...
APRIL 29, 2019
A man looks through the sights of a .50 caliber rifle at the Ohio Ordinance Works during the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. - Reuters/LUCAS JACKSON
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday accused New York state officials of trying to "take down" the National Rifle Association as the powerful gun rights group...
