AUGUST 14, 2018
A team of scientists from Harvard University and the company Carbon Engineering announced on Thursday that they have found a method to cheaply and directly pull carbon-dioxide pollution out of the atmosphere.
If their technique is successfully implemented at scale, it could transform how humanity thinks about the problem of climate change. It could give people a decisive...
AUGUST 14, 2018
The rupee hit an all-time low of 70.1 to a US dollar Tuesday morning on concerns over Turkey's economic woes.
The government on Tuesday blamed “external factors” for the rupee’s fall to an all-time low against the US dollar and said that there is nothing to worry about as of now. Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chander Garg...
AUGUST 13, 2018
A report by the South China Morning Post has said that China is printing currencies for the governments of several countries, including India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Brazil.
The Chinese media report quoted a top official of the state-owned banknote printer.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has expressed his shock and asked Union ministers, Arun Jaitley and Piyush...
AUGUST 13, 2018
John Lennon and Paul McCartney - Getty Images
No, we’re not talking about Paul being dead. That one is still up for debate. But, , a mathematician recently settled the long-disputed question of who actually wrote the 1965 hit “.”
While the majority of Beatles songs are credited to , the general rule of thumb has always been, “Whoever...
AUGUST 13, 2018
There are a variety of decent retirement savings benchmarks out there. How much other people your age have saved isn’t necessarily one of them.
After all, age is just one factor in how much you should have saved for retirement, and it assumes you and everyone else who hit their Sweet 16 in 1999 will also retire at...
AUGUST 12, 2018
Brief Scorecard: England 396 for 7 decl (Woakes 137*, Bairstow 93, Pandya 3-66, Shami 3-96) beat India 107 (Ashwin 29, Anderson 5-20) and 130 (Ashwin 33*, Anderson 4-23, Broad 4-44) by an innings and 159 runs
August 12, 2018: England v India, 2nd Test, Lord's Cheteshwar Pujara had resisted best, but Stuart Broad broke through with one of...
AUGUST 12, 2018
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is in talks that could see it becoming a significant investor in Tesla as part of Elon Musk’s plan to take the electric car maker private, according to a person with direct knowledge of the fund’s plans.
The Public Investment Fund, which has built up a stake just shy of 5 percent in...
AUGUST 12, 2018
Mr. Naipaul in 2001, the year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. - Sara Krulwich/NY Times
LONDON - V.S. Naipaul, the Nobel laureate who documented the migrations of peoples, the unraveling of the British Empire, the ironies of exile and the clash between belief and unbelief in more than a dozen unsparing novels and as many works...
AUGUST 12, 2018
The constituencies of Leavers Michael Gove and Boris Johnson have changed sides to back remain, polling shows. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
Major new analysis shows most constituencies now have majority who want to Remain
LONDON - More than 100 Westminster constituencies that voted to leave the EU have now switched their support to Remain, according to a stark new analysis...
AUGUST 11,2018
Viktor and Amalija Knavs, the parents of first lady Melania Trump, listen as their attorney Michael Wildes makes a statement on Thursday in New York, after they were sworn in as U.S. citizens. - Seth Wenig/AP/
First lady Melania Trump’s immigration attorney is criticizing the president’s hostility toward “chain migration” — a process by which U.S. citizens or permanent residents...
