JULY 9, 2018
Well... who's next?!
Nissan has officially announced it has discovered falsified data from emissions tests performed at all company’s production facilities in Japan, except for the Nissan Motor Kyushu. The automaker has been “proactively carrying out comprehensive compliance checks of various parts of its operations” since September 2017, when it has uncovered “nonconformities in the final vehicle inspection...
JULY 9, 2018
Boris Johnson at the gates of Downing Street. - Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Boris Johnson has resigned as foreign secretary, becoming the third minister in 24 hours to walk out of the government rather than back Theresa May’s plans for a soft Brexit.
The prime minister hammered out a compromise with her deeply divided cabinet...
JULY 9, 2018
Tata Group Interim Chairman Ratan Tata arrives for Tata Sons EGM at Bombay House on February 6, 2017 in Mumbai, India. Ousted Tata Sons Chairman Cyrus Mistry was removed as Director of the company with shareholders voting in favour of his removal with requisite majority. - Getty
New Delhi: The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) today dismissed Cyrus...
JULY 8, 2018
An Indian petrol pump attendant serves a customer at a Petrol station in Kolkata on January 31, 2018. For the first time since August 2014, the price of petrol in India's commercial centre touched a whopping Rs 80.25 per litre and Rs 67.30 per litre for diesel. - Getty
Petrol and diesel prices across the four metro cities...
JULY 8, 2018
In a new test, an international team of researchers has shown Einstein’s theory of general relativity or GR holds true even in the most extreme environments prevailing in the known universe.
Proposed more than a century ago, the famous theory from the physicist states all objects fall at the same rate, be it a feather or a cannonball.
The...
JULY 8, 2018
Amazon CEO and Blue Origin Founder Jeff Bezos
Blue Origin, the space flight project launched by Jeff Bezos in 2000, has set a goal to reach the moon by 2023.
The plan, named Blue Moon, is aimed at preparing the moon for an eventually permanent settlement of humans.
Blue Origin has been testing reusable space rockets, and...
JULY 8, 2018
Human remains and pottery from the Inca culture are seen inside a tomb at Huaca de las Abejas, in Tucume Archaelogical Complex in Lambayeque, Peru. - Reuters/Guadalupe Pardo
Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered an extensive Incan burial site inside an adobe pyramid in a coastal desert valley far from the Andean heart of the empire.
Two dozen cave-like tombs with...
JULY 8, 2018
TOPSHOT - This picture taken on July 4, 2017 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 5, 2017 shows the successful test-fire of the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 at an undisclosed location. South Korea and the United States fired off missiles on July 5 simulating a precision strike against North Korea's...
JULY 8, 2018
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks during a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at Southeastern Livestock Pavillion on October 12, 2016 in Ocala, Florida. - Gerardo Mora/Getty Images
Rudy Giuliani confirmed on Sunday that the White House contested a request from the special counsel to interview White House chief of staff John Kelly.
Giuliani,...
JULY 8, 2018
Brief Scorecard: India 201 for 3 (Rohit 100*, Kohli 43) beat England 198 for 9 (Roy 67, Pandya 4-38) by seven wickets
BRISTOL - A long tour of England can bring contingencies, and India responded gloriously to the first of those to maintain their clean sheet in T20I bilateral series of three matches. Central to India's win was...
