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From school ball boy to Asian Games medallist: Jay Meena makes soft tennis history

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- Jay Meena had always dreamed of becoming a cricketer. But a stint asa school ball boy introduced him to soft tennis and changed the course of his life. Growing up in Dewas, Mad... Read More


Chinese Worker Pulled Alive From Nepal Flood Tunnel After Ten Days as Death Toll Tops 1,300

KATHMANDU, Sept. 23 -- Ten days after a glacial collapse on the Nepal-China border buried entire hydropower plants under tonnes of rock and ice water, a Chinese worker named Lu Haitao was pulled alive... Read More


A Million People, No Higher Ground: Bangladesh's Rohingya Camps and the Monsoon That Will Not End

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- The flood arrived, as it almost always does in Cox's Bazar, before the warning reached the camps. In a settlement of a million people built on degraded hillsides with no legal r... Read More


Meta Patches Muse Zero-Day That Let Malware Hijack Its AI Agent on Mac

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- Fourteen days after Meta invited millions of Mac users to hand an AI assistant reach over their email, calendar, payment accounts, and health data, a security researcher showed ... Read More


Xbox Hands Halo to Activision and Proposes Closing Ninja Theory in Latest Reset

REDMOND, Sept. 23 -- Ninja Theory has made two of the most artistically ambitious games in Microsoft's catalog. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice won awards, earned a sequel, and produced exactly the kind ... Read More


Taylor Swift Gets a VMA Award Nobody Has Ever Won Before

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23 -- Taylor Swift directed her first solo music video in 2020 while also serving as its writer and lead performer, a production arrangement that most of her peers would have avoide... Read More


McDonald's Targets 50,000 Restaurants by 2028 but Its US Traffic Has Yet to Follow

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- 50,000 restaurants worldwide by 2028, a new building template, and a cost-reduction target the company said would largely fund itself. The two-day Chicago presentation was the ... Read More


Eli Lilly Bets $100M on Oura as Smart Ring Maker Files $15.6B IPO

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 -- The most revealing line in Oura's IPO filing was not the revenue figure, the subscriber count, or the $15.62 billion valuation. It was Eli Lilly's name. The pharmaceutical compan... Read More


Fewer Teens Are Sad. Among Girls, Nearly Half Still Are.

ATLANTA, Sept. 23 -- For three years running, the question hung over pediatric clinics, school counselors, and emergency departments: whether what happened to American teenagers during the pandemic ha... Read More


Bungie Reverses Course on Destiny: Vaulted Content Returns, New Games Planned

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- Three months ago, Bungie closed the door on Destiny 2. The studio shipped Monuments of Triumph, the final major content update, on June 9, and within weeks had laid off roughly ... Read More