OCTOBER 27, 2018
Brief Scorecard: West Indies 283 for 9 (Hope 95, Nurse 40, Bumrah 3-35) beat India 240 (Kohli 107, Samuels 3-12, McCoy 2-38) by 43 runs
PUNE: This really must be how opponents of Babe Ruth or Michael Jordan felt back in the day. It didn't matter whether you neutralized the influence of the other eight New York Yankees...
OCTOBER 27, 2018
FILE PHOTO: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) logo is seen before the FCC Net Neutrality hearing in Washington - REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
The state of California on Friday agreed not to enforce its own state net neutrality law until a final court decision on the Trump administration's decision to overturn the 2015 Obama-era open internet rules.
The move likely means...
OCTOBER 27, 2018
Recent market turbulence, including today’s sharp stock market drop, has been a wakeup call for many investors. Feeling queasy? It isn’t too late to make portfolio changes: The S&P 500 may be down 10% from its all-time high in September, but it’s still up an eye-popping 290% since March 2009.
Why is the stock market down lately? There’s...
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...
