A stowaway was caught trying to get a ride on a Delta Air Lines plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Christmas Eve. The Seattle attempt follows another recent incident on a Delta plane, which involved a ticketless passenger who arrived in Paris from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport just before Thanksgiving. In Tuesday’s…
NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks fell on Thursday and U.S. Treasury yields hit the highest level since April in light post-Christmas trading. The modest but widespread sell-off sent all three major U.S. stock indexes down modestly despite the so-called Santa Claus rally, in which stocks often get a boost during the holiday season due to…
NEW DELHI: The number of states/UTs with high malaria burden in India has reduced from 10 in 2015 to 2 in 2023, latest data shared by the health ministry shows. A state/UT is considered to have ‘high burden’, also known as category 3, if it has more than 1 case of malaria per 1,000 population…
President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar” said Thursday that the use of family detention centers for migrants is “on the table,” raising the possibility that the practice ended by the Biden administration could return next year. “It’s something we’re considering,” Tom Homan, who was acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the first Trump administration,…
OTAWA – Teenage sensation Gavin McKenna scored late in the first period and Carter George made 31 saves for the shutout as Canada cruised to a 4-0 victory over Finland in the host country’s first game at the world junior hockey championship on Thursday. Easton Cowan, Luca Pinelli and Matthew Schaefer, into an empty net,…
KARACHI: The President, Senate President, National Assembly Speaker and other leaders hailed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto as a champion of democracy on her 17th death anniversary, remembering her fight for the oppressed. The PPP leader was assassinated on December 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh. In his message, President Asif Ali Zardari said Ms….
One of Dr. Manmohan Singh’s last press conferences as Prime Minister. NEW DELHI: In one of his last press conferences as Prime Minister in January 2014, Dr Manmohan Singhwho died Thursday at the age of 92, gave a fitting response to growing criticism of his leadership, stating that “history will be kinder to me than…
About 65 million viewers combined watched a pair of NFL games on Netflix on Christmas Day to set streaming records. The matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers averaged 24.1 million viewers, and the Baltimore Ravens’ win over the Houston Texans averaged 24.3 million viewers, making the games the the most streamed…
Two members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet will be in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday to meet with members of Donald Trump’s team. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly and newly appointed Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc are traveling south to continue talks with members of the future Trump administration, ahead of Inauguration Day on January…
An army officer was martyred while 13 terrorists were killed during three separate security operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the army’s media wing said in a statement on Thursday. After the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) broke a fragile ceasefire agreement with the government in 2022, the country witnessed a sharp rise in the number of attacks…