Solar Impulse 2 (SI2), the first solar-powered aircraft in an attempt to fly around the world, safely landed at Kalaeloa Airport in Honolulu, capital of the US state of Hawaii, at 5.51 a.m. local time (1551 GMT) on Friday after a 118-hour non-stop flight over the Pacific....
Goldman Sachs' former India-born director Rajat Gupta failed to get his insider-trading conviction tossed on the ground that he did not benefit from the alleged tips after a judge ruled it was "too little, too late"....
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France on Friday rejected a request for asylum, or more exactly of "protection", made by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a letter to French President Francois Hollande, according to a statement from Elysee Palace....
One week after the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples can marry nationwide and states cannot ban such marriages, Louisiana's Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal has finally fallen in line....
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday greeted the government and people of the US on the eve of the country's 239th Independence Day....
"I understand the odds, particularly in today's political climate where fair debate is so often drowned out by huge sums of money," said the ex-lawmaker who, however, said he had decided to run to try and "unite" the country....
Supporters protested in Granbury city, capital of Hood county in the US state of Texas against county clerk Katie Lang's decision to not issue marriage licences to same-sex couples....
The Canadian food regulator on Friday announced that Nestle India's Maggi noodle products were safe for consumption. ...
Manorama S. Kotnis, a sister of the legendary medico and doyen of India-China friendship, late Dwarkanath S. Kotnis, has died in her Mumbai suburb home, a family friend said here on Friday. She was 94....
