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Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir announced his retirement from international cricket on Saturday. This comes only months after coming out of retirement to play the T20 World Cup. The left-arm bowler had retired from all forms of international cricket in 2020. «After careful consideration, I have taken the difficult decision to retire from international cricket. These decisions are never easy but are inevitable. I feel this is the right time for the next generation to take the baton and elevate Pakistan Cricket to new heights!» he wrote on his social media handles. «Representing my country has been and always will be the greatest honour of my life. I would sincerely like to thank the PCB, my family and friends and, above all, my fans for their continuous love & support,» he added.

OpenAI scholar Suchir Balaji has sent shockwaves throughout the Internet. The 26-year-old was found dead in his San Francisco apartment. “The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) has identified the decedent as Suchir Balaji, 26, of San Francisco. The manner of death has been determined to be suicide,” a spokesperson said in a statement to TechCrunch. “The OCME has notified the next-of-kin and has no further comment or reports for publication at this time.” Billionaire Elon Musk, known for his ongoing rivalry with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, responded to the development with a mysterious «hmm» post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

The owner of a New York thermometer factory has been sentenced to three years of probation for failing to protect workers who were exposed to hazardous levels of mercury

North Carolina's highest court has ruled over some insurance claims filed by businesses that were harmed financially by the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting 2020 government orders limiting commerce and public movement

COVID-19 pandemic and a setback for new finance minister Rachel Reeves. Gross domestic product contracted by 0.1% month-on-month in October, as it did in September, the Office for National Statistics said. It was the first consecutive drop in monthly GDP, which is volatile and prone to revision, since March and April 2020, when Britain enforced its first COVID-19 lockdown. The ONS said there was «mixed» anecdotal evidence from companies that turnover had been affected by companies waiting for the budget statement, which imposed large tax rises on businesses.

Bausch + Lomb said it authorized management and advisers to explore a potential sale of the eye health company after shares dropped over reports of faltering deal talks with a group of private equity firms.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer will attend a meeting of European Union leaders early next year

Bombay High Court has held that not letting a child meet her mother amounts to 'cruelty' under the Indian Penal Code, and refused to quash a First Information Report registered against the in-laws of a Jalna-based woman. A bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Rohit Joshi at Aurangabad noted in its order of December 11 that the woman's daughter, only four years old, is being kept away from her despite a lower court's order. «Keeping a young child of four years away from her mother also amounts to mental harassment, amounting to cruelty in as much as it would certainly cause grave injury to the mental health of the mother,» the HC said. Such behaviour by in-laws amounts to 'cruelty' as defined under section 498-A of the IPC, the court added. «The mental harassment is continuing from day to day till date. It is a continuing wrong,» the bench observed. It would not quash the FIR as this was not a fit case for the court to interfere, it added. The woman's father-in-law, mother-in-law and sister-in-law had sought quashing of the 2022 FIR registered against them in Jalna district of Maharashtra for alleged cruelty, harassment and criminal intimidation.

TikTok and ByteDance on Monday filed the emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia pending a review by the US Supreme Court. They warned that without court action the law will «shut down TikTok — one of the nation's most popular speech platforms — for its more than 170 million domestic monthly users.» The Justice Department said the court should not delay the law's effective date arguing «continued Chinese control of the TikTok application poses a continuing threat to national security.»

The Bank of Canada cut its policy rate by 50 basis points to 3.25 per cent on Wednesday, a move widely expected by economists and markets.

Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), the faecal coliform count reached 79,00,000 most probable number per 100 milliliters (MPN/100ml). This marks a sharp increase from 3,20,000 in 2023 and 6,80,000 in 2021, a TOI report stated. The river’s biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), a measure of organic pollution, also deteriorated in November, indicating a worsening pollution load compared to October.

What really drove Mark David Chapman to kill John Lennon 44 years ago? Confession from 2020 surfaces

President-elect Donald Trump has made another flurry of job announcements

George Soros' philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, will continue to fund human rights movements around the world

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: On 29 June 2020, two weeks after Indian and Chinese troops brutally clashed at the Galwan Valley, India’s ministry of electronics and IT said it was pulling the plug on 58 Chinese apps operational in the country. Among them was TikTok—the short-form video app was hugely popular back then, with over 200 million users in India.

Sym, who is head of equities, has been at River Global since February 2020, joining back when it was called River & Mercantile (R&M) and has run the £124.7m RGI fund since its launch that year. Goodhart Partners bolsters wealth division with double hire People familiar with the matter told IW that clients of RGI were briefed two weeks ago that Sym was leaving the firm to join Goodhart Partners. Indeed, Square Mile Research said in a note last week that it was suspending RGI's rating «following news that Sym is moving to Goodhart Partners, but he will be managing the fund on a sub a...

It's the job of American Airlines' chief operating officer to make sure the carrier's flights take off on time and fly safely during one of the busiest travel periods of the year

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Juan Soto and the New York Mets agreed to a record $765 million, 15-year contract Sunday night, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. One way of gauging how a country is faring is to track the wealth of its people. India, by that measure, is doing well.