FEBRUARY 3, 2019
In the Sunday Telegraph Theresa May said she rejects "that seeking alternative arrangements for the backstop constitutes 'ripping up the Good Friday Agreement'" - Reuters
LONDON, United Kingdom - Theresa May In the Sunday Telegraph Theresa May said she rejects "that seeking alternative arrangements for the backstop constitutes 'ripping up the Good Friday Agreement'" 1
Theresa May has said...
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
Donald J. Trump at the Turnberry resort in June 2016, when he was the presumptive Republican nominee for president. A Trump entity lent at least $45 million to the resort that year. - Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Image
Donald J. Trump was burning through cash.
It was early 2016, and he was lending tens of millions of dollars to...
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
HAMILTON, NEW ZEALAND - India captain Mithali Raj on Friday added another feather to her hat as she became the first woman cricketer to play 200 ODIs. The 35-year-old achieved the record when she came out for the toss during the third ODI against New Zealand at Seddon Park in Hamilton.
Raj created the record of becoming the...
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
India issued a demarche to the American Embassy Saturday, expressing its concern over the detention of Indian students in connection with their enrollment in a fraudulent university in the United States, and sought immediate consular access to them. US Embassy has also confirmed the same.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said India continues to closely monitor and...
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
Satya Nadella was announced as Microsoft's chief executive on 4 February 2014 - Getty Images
DAVOS, Switzerland—When Satya Nadella took Microsoft Corp.’s helm five years ago, the conventional wisdom was that the company’s glory days were behind it. Its ubiquitous Windows system was losing its primacy and a costly bet on acquiring Nokia’s mobile-phone business had failed...
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
Russia's President Putin attends a meeting with businessmen in Moscow. - Reuters/POOL
MOSCOW - Russia has suspended the Cold War-era Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty after a similar move by the United States, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday, also instructing the government not to initiate disarmament talks with Washington.
Moscow's relations with the West have been at their lowest...
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
Bank's Oarfish, circa 1850. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Fears of an incoming natural disaster in Japan are swirling online after sightings of a deep-water fish believed to be a harbinger of earthquakes and tsunamis.
On Friday, two oarfish were discovered after being caught in fishing nets off the northern prefecture of Toyama, bringing the total found this...
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Donald Trump Jr. addresses the audience at the campaign rally for Ron DeSantis for governor at B.B. King's Blues Club in Orlando, Fla., on July 18, 2018. (Willie J. Allen Jr./For The Washington Post)
It’s not common for President Trump to embrace reporting from CNN, but he did so with alacrity on Thursday when the network reported...
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Interim finance minister Piyush Goyal
NEW DELHI - The ruling Narendra Modi government has milked its last chance to woo voters.
After losing key state elections, it was expected to introduce several populist measures in its annual budget today (Feb. 01). And that’s just what it did. With only a few months to go for India’s general...
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Did humans have prehistoric ancestors we didn't know about yet? AI seems to suggest so.
An artificial intelligence system has identified a previously unknown human ancestor that roamed the planet tens of thousands of years ago and left a genomic footprint in Asian individuals, scientists say.
By combining deep learning algorithms and statistical methods, researchers from the University of...
