NASA’s InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, marking the first time a seismometer had ever been placed onto the surface of another planet…reports Asian…
US stocks closed lower as investors digested the central bank’s latest rate hike decision…reports Asian Lite News The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Thursday was down 464.06 points, or 1.99…
US President Donald Trump has said Defence Secretary Jim Mattis is to retire at the end of February…reports Asian Lite News Mattis will “be retiring, with distinction”, after having served…
The Donald Trump administration is planning to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan…reports Asian Lite News Reports, citing unnamed officials, said about 7,000 troops — roughly half the remaining US…
The Donald Trump administration has imposed a new set of sanctions on Russian entities and individuals including two men who allegedly carried out an assassination attempt on former spy Sergei…
Astronomers have discovered the most distant object in the solar system, a dwarf planet about 120 astronomical units from the sun…reports Asian Lite News Its distance is 120 times the…
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena unveiled a new Cabinet, days after Ranil Wickremesinghe was reinstated as Prime Minister in a move that ended a nearly two-month-long political impasse that erupted…
The European Commission (EC) published a set of measures that would limit the negative effects on Europe of the UK leaving the EU without an exit deal…reports Asian Lite News…
The Donald Trump-led US administration announced that it has started returning US troops home from Syria after claiming a victory in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) without revealing…
The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates again, defying warnings from President Donald Trump against the move…reports Asian Lite News Officials at the US central bank on Wednesday voted…