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In this image taken from SpaceX video, passengers aboard a SpaceX capsule react as the capsule parachutes into the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast. (Photo: AP)

SpaceX all-civilian orbital crew completes historic mission

The SpaceX Dragon capsule was slowed down by four large parachutes before splashing into the Atlantic Ocean

19 Sept 2021 8:04 AM IST

Afghan residents and family members of the victims gather next to a damaged vehicle inside a house, day after a US drone airstrike in Kabul. (AFP)

'A tragic mistake': US admits strike in Kabul killed 10 civilians, not...

The drone strike killed 10 people, including seven children, according to McKenzie, none of who ultimately were linked...

18 Sept 2021 10:34 AM IST

The Dragon capsules two men and two women are looking to spend three days going round and round the planet. (Photo: Twitter/@SpaceX)

SpaceX launches 4 amateurs on private Earth-circling trip

It's SpaceX founder Elon Musk's first entry in the competition for space tourism dollars

16 Sept 2021 8:43 AM IST

Currently 63.1 percent of the eligible population over-12 are fully vaccinated, or 54 percent of the total population. (AP file photo)

US approaching Delta wave peak but virus expected to become endemic

Countries in western Europe have also seen similar downturns in their Delta surges

15 Sept 2021 10:32 AM IST

A Green Card, known officially as a Permanent Resident Card, is a document issued to immigrants as evidence that the bearer has been granted the privilege of residing permanently in the US. (DC File Image)

New US bill can help millions, including Indians to get US Green Card

The bill does not contain permanent structural changes to the legal immigration system

14 Sept 2021 3:12 AM IST

General view of the field during a ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks before the game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Washington Nationals at PNC Park on September 11, 2021 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo: AFP)

Newly released FBI memo hints at Saudi involvment with 9/11 hijackers

The memo from April 4, 2016, showed links between Omar Bayoumi and two of the Al-Qaeda operatives

12 Sept 2021 10:42 AM IST

Evacuees from Afghanistan wait for passport checks upon arrival at Hamad International Airport in Qatars capital Doha on September 10, 2021. (KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)

32 more US citizens, permanent residents leave Afghanistan

Twenty-one US citizens or permanent residents were on a first Qatar Airways flight that left Kabul

11 Sept 2021 11:18 AM IST

Smoke billows from one of the towers of the World Trade Center as flames and debris explode from the second tower, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Chao Soi Cheong)

US honors 9/11 dead on 20th anniversary of attacks

At New York's Ground Zero, relatives will read out the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed, in a four-hour-long...

11 Sept 2021 10:47 AM IST

Zydus Cadilas COVID-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D. (Photo:Zyduscadila)

Wealthy nations will have 1.2 billion vaccine doses they don't need

The U.S., Britain, European nations and others could satisfy their own needs and still have large quantities to...

5 Sept 2021 1:35 PM IST

Cars and trucks are stranded by high water Thursday, Sept 2, 2021, on the Major Deegan Expressway in Bronx borough of New York as high water left behind by Hurricane Ida still stands on the highway hours later. (AP/Craig Ruttle)

At least 44 dead as flash floods slam New York area

Ida blazed a trail of destruction north after slamming into Louisiana over the weekend, bringing severe flooding and...

3 Sept 2021 10:23 AM IST

President Joe Biden speaks about the end of the war in Afghanistan from the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Biden defends departure from forever war,' praises airlift from...

Biden has faced tough questions about the way the U.S. went about leaving Afghanistan, a chaotic evacuation with spasms...

1 Sept 2021 11:14 AM IST

People evacuated from Kabul, Afghanistan, walk through the terminal before boarding a bus after they arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va., on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

As US military leaves Kabul, many Americans, Afghans remain

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. will continue to try to get Americans and Afghans out of the country

31 Aug 2021 10:16 AM IST