Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has won the first presidential debate, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. The poll of debate watchers put Clinton at 62 per cent while Republican rival Donald Trump lost by 27 per cent in Monday night’s debate held at the Hofstra University, New York.
As Google celebrated its 18th birthday with an animated, festive-balloon Doodle on Tuesday, there were some confusion regarding the date as the search engine giant has celebrated its birthday on other days in the month of September in the past. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. The company’s own […]
In a surprise find, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have spotted water vapour plumes erupting off the surface on Jupiter’s moon Europa, suggesting that life may exist in our solar system. The observation increases the possibility that missions to Europa may be able to sample Europa’s ocean without having to drill through miles of […]
US presidential contenders, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, sparred for 90 minutes at the Hofstra University auditorium in New York state in the first of their three presidential debates with pollsters giving an edge to the former first lady. The debate covered American prosperity and security, and in each of these issues Trump […]
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s advisor on Hispanic issues, Jose Fuentes, hopes that Monday night’s debate helps get across the mogul’s image of “change” compared to his “stiff” Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, who – he says – speaks more to people’s heads than to their hearts. In an interview with EFE news at the debate […]
The US dollar slipped against most major currencies on Monday ahead of the country’s first presidential debate between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton. Analysts said the debate has cast huge amount of uncertainties over the country and thus hurt the currency, Xinhua news agency reported. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against […]
The US Senate will vote on Wednesday to override President Barack Obamas veto of legislation that would allow the families of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks to sue the Saudi Arabian government. The revelation was made by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday, Politico reported. The Congress is expected to easily […]
The US dollar increased against most major currencies amid a Fed official’ s hawkish comments. Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren said in a statement on Friday that the US short-term interest rates should be raised now, Xinhua news agency reported. “I am arguing for modest, gradual tightening now, out of concern that not doing so […]
Between January and June this year, the Indian government made 139 account information requests and requested for 42 accounts to be removed from the micro-blogging website, Twitter’s biannual transparency report revealed on Thursday. Twitter is, however, yet to remove any account requested by the Indian government or court order. According to the report, the US […]
A British consumer watchdog has told technology giant Microsoft to compensate customers whose computers have been adversely affected by the Windows 10 upgrade. Last year Microsoft rolled out a free Windows 10 update to all its customers. However, the widely accepted new operating system did not come out as good as people hoped it would. […]