JUNE 5, 2018
Facebook’s logo at an internet conference in Beijing in April. The social network has struck data-sharing partnerships with at least four companies in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese government. - Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press
Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant that has a close relationship with...
JUNE 5, 2018
Rolls of steel at the ArcelorMittal steelworks in Dunkerque, France. US President Donald Trump rejected European demands for an exemption from what Brussels considers illegal and unilateral tariffs on steel and aluminum.
BRUSSELS — Russian President Vladimir V. Putin arrived in Austria on Tuesday sensing an opportunity almost unimaginable just months ago: to overhaul frosty relations with a...
JUNE 5, 2018
Brief Scorecard: Afghanistan 135 for 4 (Shenwari 49, Nabi 31*) beat Bangladesh 134 for 8 (Tamim 43, Rashid 4-12, Nabi 2-19) by six wickets
Rashid Khan wheels away after taking a wicket - Raton Gomes/BCB
DEHRA DUN, INDIA: After teaming up with Rashid Khan and limiting Bangladesh to 134 for 8, Mohammad Nabi smashed an unbeaten 31 off...
JUNE 5, 2018
Indian travelers unload their baggage on a train platform at the Agra Cantonment railway station - Getty
NEW DELHI: Like airlines, carrying extra luggage on railways will now involve extra charges and a penalty. For decades, the railways have been lenient about passenger luggage -- so much so that many passengers are not even aware how much baggage...
JUNE 5, 2018
Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney stands atop the Museum of Art staircase as a Super Bowl parade is held for the Eagles on February 8, 2018. (Joe Lamberti | Courier-Post via USA TODAY NETWORK)
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) slammed President Trump as a "scary guy" on Tuesday, saying he is frightened that Trump has access to the nuclear...
JUNE 4, 2018
Brief Scorecard: India women 132 for 4 (Meshram 32, Mandhana 29, Liengprasert 2-16) beat Thailand women 66 for 8 (Boochatham 21, Harmanpreet 3-11, Deepti 2-16) by 66 runs
Harmanpreet Kaur plays a glance down the leg side - Getty Images
KUALA LUMPUR: India rested Mithali Raj, their highest run-scorer from Sunday, experimented with their batting order and yet walked...
JUNE 4, 2018
President Trump dictated a misleading statement last year about his son’s meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer during the campaign, his lawyers have acknowledged, contradicting a series of denials by Trump advisers. - Tom Brenner/The New York Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — For nearly a year, the denials from President Trump’s lawyers and spokeswoman were unequivocal. No, the president did...
JUNE 4, 2018
Earth from space - Jaymantri
We're moving so fast, but we don't feel it.
Congratulations: you’re currently spinning at about 1,000 miles an hour without even trying! That’s how fast the Earth has to turn to make a complete rotation every day. So why can’t you feel it? Your stomach goes all topsy-turvy when you spin around on...
JUNE 4, 2018
The controversy over the death of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has deepened after differing versions of the sequence of events leading up to her hospitalisation were reportedly furnished by her close aide VK Sasikala and her personal medical adviser KS Sivakumar.
Sources privy to the investigation being conducted by a judicial commission, headed by retired...
JUNE 4, 2018
President Trump’s ongoing Twitter war against special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and the investigation of the 2016 campaign reached a new point of contention on Monday morning when Trump waded into the waters of what is and isn’t constitutional behavior.
In one tweet, Trump argued that, according to “numerous legal scholars,” he has an “absolute right” to...
