World Press Photo 2019: The nominees

After going through more than 78,000 photographs from over 4,700 photographers, the expert judges of the World Press Photo contest have announced the finalists of the 2019 competition. The......

A life in photos: George H W Bush

With a rich political and personal legacy, former United States President George Herbert Walker Bush left no shortage of memorable images from his time in and out of office.'Pappy' Bush passed into......

Rescue ops intensify as Hurricane Harvey kills 50

Rescue workers are desperately searching flooded neighbourhoods across Texas for survivors stranded by Hurricane Harvey, one of the most destructive storms in American history that......

Stunning images of the month: May

We present some of the best photographs clicked across the globe in the month of May.   An amateur sumo wrestler holds a baby during a baby crying contest at Sensoji......

Apple ordered to pay nearly $533 mn for patent infringement

Tech giant Apple has been ordered to pay $532.9 million in damages after a federal jury found it guilty of wilful patent infringement. The jury, sitting in the US District Court for the Eastern......

US prosecutor awarded for probing visa case against Infosys

A US prosecutor who successfully investigated a precedent-setting work visa fraud case against Infosys, resulting in the Indian IT giant paying a whopping $34 million in settlement, has been......

Whistleblower to get $8 mn for blowing the lid off Infosys

A former American employee of Infosys, who had brought a whistleblower lawsuit against the IT giant, could receive between $5-8 million of the total $34 million that the Indian company will......

Infosys settles visa row with US for $34 mn

Infosys, the nation's second largest software exporter, on Wednesday paid a record $34 million fine to settle a visa row in the US. Infosys allegedly sent employees to the US with B-1 visitor visas......

FIFA's Blatter, Valcke hire top US lawyers for corruption probe

FIFA president Sepp Blatter and its secretary general Jerome Valcke have both hired high-powered US lawyers to represent them as a corruption probe roils soccer's global governing body.Blatter......