August2017

News Hour: Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said his officers received 6,000 emergency calls and rescued 2,000 people in the past day but more Houstonians still need help amid widespread flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey. The...

News Hour: Kenya’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered the election commission to allow the opposition, which is disputing the results of this month’s presidential poll, to have access to its computer servers and electronic devices used...

News Hour: Four Uber drivers were fined by a Danish court on Monday for operating taxis illegally while working for the ride hailing service before it withdrew from the market in April. The four men, one...

News Hour: A jihadist cell that killed 16 people in a double attack in Catalonia earlier this month managed to evade controls specifically intended to detect potential threats, Spain’s interior minister said on Monday, promising to...

News Hour: A consortium led by Western Digital Corp is close to an agreement to buy Toshiba Corp’s $17.4 billion chip business, with the U.S. firm’s CEO in Tokyo to finalize the long and contentious talks,...

News Hour: As self-styled spiritual guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was sentenced to 20 years in jail today, an appeal to his followers to abide “peacefully” by the court order came from Vipassana Insan, the chairperson of the Dera Sacha...

News Hour: Wearable device maker Fitbit Inc on Monday launched its newest device, the Ionic smartwatch, with features ranging from fitness tracking to contactless payment, as it gears up to compete with rivals such as Apple...

News Hour: Expedia Inc Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi is poised to accept an offer to be Uber Technologies Inc’s CEO, according to an internal memo sent to Expedia staff, ending a drawn-out search for the next...

News Hour: Self-styled spiritual guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was today sentenced to 20 years in prison for the rape of two women followers in 2002, by a judge who flew by government helicopter to conduct court at...

News Hour: Self-styled “godman” Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was a far cry today from the villain-punching, alien-fighting hero he played on screen, pleading “mujhe maaf kar do” (have mercy on me) and breaking down as he was sentenced to 20 years...