JULY 3, 2018
Australian skipper Aaron Finch sent the Zimbabwe bowlers for a leather hunt as he scored 172 off just 76 balls in the third match of the T20I tri-series involving Pakistan as the third team.
In the process, he registered the highest individual score in T20I cricket, breaking his own record. With this 76-ball innings, which saw him score...
JULY 3, 2018
A woman tries the gold ornaments on the eve of Akshaya Tritiya at Jewellery Shop at Kalbhadevi, on April 17, 2018 in Mumbai, India. Akshaya Tritiya, considered an auspicious day to buy gold, pulls millions of Indians every year to jewellery stores across the country. (Photo by Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Gold prices declined...
JULY 2, 2018
North Korea is completing a major expansion of a key missile-manufacturing plant, according to new satellite pictures that have cast fresh doubt on Pyongyang’s commitment to disarm despite US pressure.
The facility makes solid-fuel, ballistic missiles - capable of a swift nuclear strike on targets in Asia – and re-entry vehicles for warheads, believed to be one of...
JULY 2, 2018
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business group and customarily a close ally of President Donald Trump's Republican Party, is launching a campaign on Monday to oppose Trump's trade tariff policies.
With some of America's tightest trading partners imposing retaliatory measures, Trump's approach to tariffs has unsettled financial markets and strained relations between the White House...
JULY 2, 2018
Axios reported on Sunday that the Trump administration has drafted a bill that would abandon America's commitment to the World Trade Organization's rules.
But it's the acronym of the proposed legislation that has caught the attention of Twitter.
It is called "United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act," but many are now simply calling it the...
JULY 2, 2018
Michael Cohen arrives at his hotel in New York City, U.S., June 20, 2018. - REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, who once said he would do anything to protect the president, told ABC News in an interview released Monday that he now puts "family and country first."
In Michael Cohen's first...
JULY 2, 2018
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press aboard Air Force One in flight as he travels from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, to Bedminster, New Jersey, June 29, 2018. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
Spouses of H-1B visa holders working in the US will lose their jobs if...
JULY 2, 2018
Newly elected Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador cheers his supporters after winning the general elections on July 1, 2018. - AFP/Getty Images
MEXICO CITY — Riding a wave of populist anger fueled by rampant corruption and violence, the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected president of Mexico on Sunday, in a landslide victory that upended the...
JULY 1, 2018
A statue of Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans occupies the center of Lafayette Square on the north side of the White House January 20, 2018 in Washington, DC. The federal government was partially shut down at midnight after Republicans and Democrats in the Senate failed to find common ground on a budget. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty...
JULY 2, 2018
Seen in August 2011, Felix Finkbeiner has made it his life's goal to plant trees. And he is getting a lot of help. - Photograph by Benno Kraehahn
The world is a lot greener thanks to this 20-year-old and his army of “climate ambassadors” who have pledged to plant trees and use youth power to avert climate change.
Ever...
