September2016

News Hour: Karolina Pliskova, a grand slam underachiever, took a big step toward shedding that unwanted label by sweeping past Croatian teenager Ana Konjuh 6-2 6-2 on Wednesday to roar into the semi-finals of the U.S....

News Hour: International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach will not attend any of the Paralympic Games starting in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said. Bach had already said he would...

News Hour: Volkswagen will resume producing cars in Kenya by the end of the year as it looks to sell more vehicles across the East African region, reports Reuters. After a four-decade pause in production by...

News Hour: South Korean consumer electronics titan LG unveiled a flagship V20 smartphone aimed at internet age “storytellers” on the eve of an Apple event expected to star a new iPhone, reports BSS. LG introduced the...

News Hour: Oil prices rallied in Asia on Wednesday on the back of a weaker dollar but scepticism that key producers will agree to limit output at an upcoming meeting kept gains in check, reports BSS....

News Hour: Hurricane Newton uprooted trees, broke windows and left two people dead as it roared across Mexico’s northwestern Baja California peninsula on Tuesday, but the tourist region was spared of major damage, reports BSS. The...

News Hour: IOM, with support from the US State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM), and in coordination with UNHCR and other implementing partners, has helped resettle more than 10,000 Syrian refugees to the...

News Hour: US president Barack Obama on Wednesday met a survivor maimed by American bombs covertly dropped on Laos decades ago after pledging to help clean up a country he said was still living in the...

News Hour: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 rocked Japan’s Kanto area at 1:28 p.m. local time, Japan Meteorological Agency said on Wednesday, reports BSS. The temblor was centered in the southern part of...

News Hour: Taking advantage of strong investor demand and supportive market conditions, the Asian Development Bank has raised 7 billion Indian Rupees (INR), about $104 million, from a new issue of offshore Indian Rupee-linked bonds, via...