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It’s not yet clear how Musk secured all of the financing to close his $44 billion agreement to buy the company and take it private.

As Tesla CEO Elon Musk took over as Twitter CEO, the microblogging site's co-founder Jack Dorsey is reportedly testing another social network App to compete with the Blue Bird.

Kathmandu: The Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday sent a diplomatic note to India regarding the death of a nine-year-old boy who was killed after being hit by a stone that flew in a blast carried out for the widening of the Tavaghat-Lipulek road by India across the Mahakali river in western Nepal. The […]

At least 153 people were killed in a stampede in South Korea’s Seoul where the crowd gathered during the Halloween festivities.

Climate activists across the world and specifically in Europe are indulging in what looks like an organised attack on some of the world’s most historic paintings. They are gluing themselves to these paintings in protest.

The deadliest stampede in South Korea's history happened on Saturday night in a narrow downhill alley near Hamilton Hotel in the famous nightlife district after tens of thousands of people visited the area for Halloween, Yonhap news agency reported.

At least 59 people were killed and 150 more were injured after being crushed by a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow street during Halloween festivities

Canada has confirmed 1,435 cases of monkeypox, including 42 hospitalisations, health authoties announced.

Several images and videos went viral on Friday in which two men carrying boxes are seen standing near the entrance of Twitter's San Francisco building, claiming to have been laid off by Musk.

The Mindstorms kits which allow users to build robots out of Lego bricks, pins, beams, motors, gears, and other parts and then programme them using the control hubs, has been stopped, reports The Verge.

The incident took place on Friday afternoon, Xinhua news agency reported.

Hyderabad: Anne Jakapong Jakrajutatip, a transgender Thai media mogul and transgender rights campaigner has bought the Miss Universe pageant making her the first woman to own the pageant outright. She runs the KN Global Group which acquired the organisation for $20 million, according to a company announcement. After a series of posts that referred to […]

The bird was tagged as a hatchling in Alaska during the Northern Hemisphere summer with a tracking GPS chip and tiny solar panel that enabled an international research team to follow its first annual migration across the Pacific Ocean, Birdlife Tasmania convenor Eric Woehler said.

State and local police are still investigating a two motor vehicle collision that killed three and hospitalized five people Tuesday morning.

The book on the "Nuclearization of Asia" was released this week at the Geneva Press Club, which saw the in-person participation of 35 persons. Twenty-three people participated via virtual mode.

Three students from India died in a road accident after the car they were travelling in collided with another vehicle in western Massachusetts.

London: The extraordinary wealth of the wider family of Britain’s super-rich Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his billionaire heiress wife Akshata Murthy has been laid bare, the media reported. With an estimated net fortune of 730 million pounds that includes multiple properties in Britain and the US, a string of business interests and even a […]

The verdict was handed down on Wednesday by the jury, a panel made up of citizens, which had earlier found Robert Solis guilty of murdering Sandeep Dhaliwal in 2019.

Whittome was "instructed" to remove her tweet, a spokesman for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer confirmed, after it drew backlash on social media, the BBC reported.

Sharing his picture of celebrating the festival of lights at his residence, he extended his wishes to everyone and said he will do all that it takes to build a Britain where the future generation can light their 'Diyas' and look into the future with hope.

While that wrinkle was resolved after Akshata agreed to pay the taxes from her worldwide income, the unassuming figure is fast becoming a much-searched keyword on search engines. 

The Chief Judge of the Employment Court, Christina Inglis, found that all four drivers were employees of Uber during the periods where they performed transportation services.

“This was a big Diwali present for the diaspora. Rishi was already on the Indiaspora government leaders list and we welcome him and wish him well as he takes office!” Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and Indiaspora founder M R Rangaswami said.

Hyderabad: An Iranian man nicknamed the “dirtiest man in the world”, for not taking a shower for decades, has died at the age of 94, according to State media reports. Amou Haji, who did not wash for more than half-a-century and was single, died on Sunday in the village of Dejgah in the southern province […]