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  Another hairpin turn for Tesla as stock dives on SEC charge

  September 28, 2018 22:30 IST

  Tesla stock has long been volatile, but the last year has been an especially wild one as the electric car company grapples with mounting debt, tries to get over manufacturing challenges, and now faces the potential ouster of CEO Elon Musk

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  Europe sweeps afternoon to build 5-3 lead in Ryder Cup

  September 28, 2018 22:30 IST

  Europe recovers from slow start to build 5-3 lead over Americans in the Ryder Cup

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  Egypt governor: Remove Disney figures from kindergartens

  September 28, 2018 22:15 IST

  Egyptian media say a regional governor has ordered depictions of Disney characters removed from kindergarten classrooms and replaced with images of Egyptian troops who were killed fighting militants

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  Manhunt in Denmark shuts down bridges, ferries to Copenhagen

  September 28, 2018 22:15 IST

  A police manhunt prompted Danish authorities to briefly cut off the eastern island of Zealand, where the capital of Copenhagen sits, from the rest of the country Friday as well as from Germany and Sweden

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  French scholar names model for artist Courbet's famous nude

  September 28, 2018 21:45 IST

  A French scholar says he has identified the model for a famous nude that artist Gustave Courbet painted in the 19th century

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  The ghost of Roy Orbison goes on tour – and some aren't happy about it

  September 28, 2018 21:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Peter Lehman, Arizona State University(THE CONVERSATION) On Oct. 1 the U.S. leg of the Roy Orbison hologram tour will kick off in Oakland. At each stop, a computer-generated hologram of Orbison will be performing alongside an orchestra and band. Back in January, when the tour was first announced, a handful of critics reacted with such horror that you would have thought the very

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  50 years of the Boeing 747: How the 'queen of the skies' reigned over air travel

  September 28, 2018 21:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Janet Bednarek, University of Dayton(THE CONVERSATION) On Sept. 30, 1968, the first Boeing 747 rolled out of its custom-built assembly plant in Everett, Washington. From the beginning, everything about the plane once known as the “queen of the skies” was big. It was the first wide-body “jumbo jet” ever built, involving about 50,000 construction workers, mechanics, engineers and

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  Wanda Sykes' jokes about Trump lead to heckling, walkouts

  September 28, 2018 21:15 IST

  Over a dozen angry fans walked out or were kicked out of comedian Wanda Sykes' show in New Jersey for heckling her when she opened with jokes about President Donald Trump

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  House committee to release Russia probe transcripts

  September 28, 2018 21:15 IST

  The House intelligence committee has voted to release transcripts from more than 50 interviews it conducted as part of its investigation into Russian election interference during the 2016 presidential campaign

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  2nd Kosovo lawmaker detained for threatening prosecutors

  September 28, 2018 21:15 IST

  A court in the Kosovo capital, Pristina, has decided to keep a lawmaker in detention for one month for threatening a prosecutor, the second such case in two days

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  Russia seeks to counter US weight as Lavrov takes UN stage

  September 28, 2018 21:15 IST

  Russia is framing itself as a counterweight to U.S. power around the world

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  US, Philippines increase number of joint military activities

  September 28, 2018 21:00 IST

  The Philippine military says its defense and security activities with the United States, including annual combat exercises, will increase next year in a show of continuing robust relations between the treaty allies

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  Kavanaugh hearing devolves into partisan fistfight

  September 28, 2018 21:00 IST

  A hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh devolved into a partisan fistfight as Democrats and Republicans _ and Kavanaugh himself _ sparred over decades-old sexual assault allegations

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  Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad names new leader

  September 28, 2018 20:45 IST

  Iran-backed Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad says it has named a new leader

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  Arkansas ex-state senator's corruption trial delayed to July

  September 28, 2018 20:15 IST

  The trial of former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson, who is accused of using campaign funds for personal expenses, is being delayed until next year

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  Mexico mob kills detective, injures 3 others in attack

  September 28, 2018 20:00 IST

  Authorities say a mob of about 100 people in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo have doused a detective with gasoline and burned him to death

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  'Look at me:' Women confront Flake on Kavanaugh support

  September 28, 2018 20:00 IST

  'Look at me:' Tearful women confront Flake on his Kavanaugh support as emotions run high in the U.S. Capitol

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  The Latest: Fighters stop protesters outside Syria town

  September 28, 2018 20:00 IST

  Syrian opposition activists say al-Qaida-linked fighters have prevented demonstrators from entering a key northwestern town controlled by extremists

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  How passports evolved to help governments regulate your movement

  September 28, 2018 19:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) John Torpey, City University of New York(THE CONVERSATION) The U.S. State Department has been denying passports to U.S. citizens who live in Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border since the George W. Bush administration, according to news reports.Specifically, the government is denying passports to people delivered by midwives in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley as well as people delivered by

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  Search is on for skydiving instructor lost in tandem jump

  September 28, 2018 19:30 IST

  Authorities in Maine are resuming a search for the body of a skydiving instructor who became separated from his student during a tandem jump

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  Markets Right Now: US stocks open slightly lower

  September 28, 2018 19:30 IST

  Stocks are opening slightly lower on Wall Street as the market gives back some of the ground it gained a day earlier. Banks and energy companies had the biggest losses in early trading Friday.

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  Several Democratic Judiciary Committee members walk out of hearing on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination

  September 28, 2018 19:30 IST

  Several Democratic Judiciary Committee members walk out of hearing on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination

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  TS Kirk causes power outages, heavy flooding in Caribbean

  September 28, 2018 19:30 IST

  Tropical Storm Kirk is causing power outages and heavy flooding as it passes through the eastern Caribbean

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  Sabalenka to face Kontaveit in Wuhan Open final

  September 28, 2018 19:15 IST

  Aryna Sabalenka and Anett Kontaveit will play for the Wuhan Open title

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  The Latest: Democratic Sen. Nelson opposing Kavanaugh bid

  September 28, 2018 19:15 IST

  A Democratic senator who's facing a tough re-election race has come out against President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh

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  US, Japan and Australia challenge Huawei in Papua New Guinea

  September 28, 2018 19:00 IST

  A U.S. diplomat says the U.S., Japan and Australia are cooperating on an internet cable proposal for Papua New Guinea as an alternative to an offer by Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant that the U.S. regards as a cybersecurity threat

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  The Latest: Russia to present itself as counterweight to US

  September 28, 2018 19:00 IST

  Moscow expected to use its UN address to enshrine Russia as a counterweight to U.S. influence in areas from the Mideast to Venezuela and the Korean peninsula.

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  Kremlin urges Britain to share its poisoning case suspicions

  September 28, 2018 19:00 IST

  The Kremlin says it expects Britain to say what it knows about the identity of the two suspects in the nerve agent poisoning of a former Russian spy so that Russian officials can conduct an investigation