OCTOBER 26, 2018
Microsoft regained its spot as the second most valuable U.S. company on Friday after a disappointing quarterly report from Amazon wiped $65 billion off the online retailer's market capitalization.
Apple tops the list at over $1 trillion after crossing that threshold in September. Microsoft's market capitalization was Wall Street's highest in late 1998 through early 2000 before the...
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Federal authorities investigating a spate of pipe bombs sent this week to several prominent critics of President Trump have turned their attention toward southern Florida, believing that a number of the explosive devices were mailed from the area, two people briefed on the matter said Thursday.
The focus on Florida came as law-enforcement officials around the country were...
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. said a hacker accessed personal information of 9.4 million customers, becoming the target of the world’s biggest airline data breach.
The airline’s shares sank the most in almost two years, shaving $201 million off its market value, after the Hong Kong-based carrier disclosed the unauthorized access late Wednesday, seven months after discovering the violation....
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Buildings sit in shambles after a powerful September 2017 earthquake devastated Mexico's southern coast. - Photography by Pedro Pardo, AFP, Getty
On September 7, 2017, a magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck southern Mexico, killing dozens and injuring hundreds. While earthquakes are common enough in the region, this powerful event wasn’t any run-of-the-mill tremor.
That’s because part of the roughly 37-mile-thick...
OCTOBER 25, 2018
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia’s parliament on Thursday approved the East African country’s first female president, Sahlework Zewde, a veteran of the United Nations and the diplomatic corps.
The position of president is ceremonial in Ethiopia, with executive power vested in the office of the prime minister, but the appointment is deeply symbolic and follows up on last...
OCTOBER 24, 2018
NEW DELHI, INDIA - FEBRUARY 1: Former Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Verma taking charge as a CBI Director at CBI Headquarter, on February 1, 2017 in New Delhi, India. Alok Kumar Verma, a 1979 batch Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre IPS officer, took over as the Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation. Verma started...
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Brief Scorecard: India 321 for 6 (Kohli 157*, Rayudu 73) tied with West Indies 321 for 7 (Hope 123*, Hetmeyer 94, Kuldeep 3-67)
VISAKHAPATNAM - This will hurt more than their three previous defeats. Shimron Hetmeyer's sensational hitting and Shai Hope's near run-a-ball unbeaten hundred brought West Indies awfully close to their highest successful chase in ODIs, but...
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Indian PM Modi is the fourteenth recipient of this award. (File photo)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been awarded the Seoul Peace Prize 2018 for his contribution to high economic growth in India and world through ‘Modinomics’, the award citation stated. His contribution to world peace, improving human development and furthering democracy in India, too, were...
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Explosive devices were sent to former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as to CNN’s offices in New York, sparking an intense investigation on Wednesday into whether a bomber is going after targets that have often been the subject of right-wing ire.
A law enforcement official said the three devices were similar...
OCTOBER 23, 2018
Silicon Valley is deeply implicated in the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, a new report says. It points at two companies in particular: Amazon, which provides cloud services to government agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Palantir Technologies, which makes case management software for the agency.
“Through intense lobbying of policymakers and law enforcement officials,...
