JULY 12, 2018
An Indian shopkeeper arranges capsicums in a whole sale vegetable market in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. Retail inflation rate has surged to a15-month high according to government data revealed on Tuesday.- AP
New Delhi: Driven by higher fuel prices, consumer or retail inflation accelerated to 5% in June, well above May’s 4.87%. This is the...
JULY 12, 2018
Brief Scorecard: India 269 for 2 (Rohit 137*, Kohli 75) beat England 268 (Buttler 53, Stokes 50, Kuldeep 6 for 25) by eight wickets
July 12, 2018: England v India, 1st ODI, Trent Bridge - Rohit Sharma brought up his second successive century on tour, his 18th in ODIs to lead India's cruise - Getty Images
Nottingham, ENGLAND -...
JULY 12, 2018
Immigrants wait in line to become US citizens at a naturalization ceremony on February 2, 2018 in New York City. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) swore in 128 immigrants from 42 different countries during the ceremony at the downtown Manhattan Federal Building. - Getty
The wealthy Chinese have been paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to effectively...
JULY 12, 2018
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Thursday blasted President Trump's rhetoric at the NATO summit, calling it "disappointing" and not representative of the United States.
"There is little use in parsing the president's misstatements and bluster, except to say that they are the words of one man. Americans, and their Congress, still believe in the transatlantic alliance and ,...
JULY 12, 2018
George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney get ready to leave Sardinia after he was released from the hospital following a bad motorcycle accident. Clooney has been in Italy filming the Hulu miniseries Catch-22. - CIAOPIX / FREZZA LAFATA / BACKGRID
George Clooney is still recovering from his serious motorcycle accident on Tuesday morning in Italy.
The...
JULY 12, 2018
US Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh incurred tens of thousands of dollars of credit card debt buying baseball tickets over the past decade and at times reported liabilities that could have exceeded the value of his cash accounts and investment assets, according to a review of Kavanaugh’s financial disclosures and information provided by the White House.
White...
JULY 11, 2018
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has reached an incredible new milestone.
As of Tuesday, according to a Forbes estimate, the Amazon founder and CEO has a net worth of $143.1 billion—making him at least $50 billion richer than any other person on Earth.
Bezos became the world’s richest man last summer, when his net worth (then around $90 billion) surpassed that...
JULY 11, 2018
Apple has not openly discussed its research into autonomous vehicles. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP/Getty Images)
For about two years, Xiaolang Zhang was privy to information to which many in the tech world can only dream of having access: the inner workings of Apple Inc.'s secretive autonomous-car research.
Over the weekend, the former Apple engineer was arrested by U.S. authorities...
JULY 11, 2018
More than 40 percent of Americans say that Barack Obama was the best or second-best president in their lifetime, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center.
The poll asked people in an open-ended format which president has done the best job in their lifetimes, using respondents' first and second choices for the survey's findings.
Forty-four percent...
JULY 11, 2018
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan arrive at the 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on July 11, 2018. - Sean Gallup/Getty Images
New figures show that Canadian military spending will be cut significantly, even as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to face U.S. President Donald Trump’s demands for higher NATO military...
