Author: GlobalNewsAdmin

Sunday’s Canadian Football League Grey Cup pits the Montreal Alouettes against the Saskatchewan Roughriders. While the NFL has played the Super Bowl since 1966, the CFL championship has been played since 1909. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Today in Winnipeg, they’re playing the championship of the Canadian Football League – the Montreal Alouettes against the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the 112th edition of the Grey Cup. And while the event has similarities to the Super Bowl, there are a lot of differences, as Steve Futterman reports.STEVE FUTTERMAN, BYLINE: From all across Canada this week, Canadian Football League fans have been gathering here in…

Technology can make big rigs more comfortable and easier to drive. But will new tech improve drivers’ jobs, or eliminate them?

Web-infrastructure firm Cloudflare was hit by a global outage on Tuesday (November 18, 2025), leaving major internet platforms inaccessible globally. This is the second major internet disruption this year since the malfunction of Amazon’s cloud services unit AWS in October. Here are some of the biggest tech outages in recent years, in chronological order: BRITISH AIRWAYS IAG-owned British Airways was hit by a major computer system failure in May 2017 that stranded 75,000 passengers over a holiday weekend, sparking a public relations disaster and pledges from the carrier that it would do better in future. According to media reports, the…

India suffered their first defeat against Bangladesh in 22 years, going down 0-1 to the home side in an inconsequential Group C match of the Asian Cup qualifying round match here on Tuesday.Sheikh Morsalin scored the all-important goal for Bangladesh in the 11th minute to the wild cheer of the capacity crowd at the National Stadium here. The match, though, had been rendered inconsequential as both the sides were out of contention of the 2027 continental showpiece.India got a golden scoring chance in the 31st minute but Lallianzuala Chhangte’s right-footed shot from the top of the box after Bangladesh goalkeeper…

On Tuesday, November 18, the daily lives of millions of people around the world were disrupted after the internet went kaput. Everything from ChatGPT to X (formerly Twitter) to a wide range of apps simply refused to open. While X displayed internal server errors, productivity tools such as Canva would simply not load.Reportedly, some major online games went offline. AI tools were not spared either, as several attempts to query ChatGPT or Claude returned access-denied messages. However, it was learned later that this was not an issue related to individual apps or servers. It was not an individual’s Wi-Fi, nor…

For Travel + Leisure’s column Traveling As, we’re talking to travelers about what it’s like to explore the world through their unique perspectives. We chatted with U.S. army veterans and married couple Michael and Beth Richardson. After they both retired as lieutenant colonels, they decided to give up their comfortable Florida lifestyle to travel the world full-time. Here’s their story… Michael Richardson: I joined the army three weeks out of high school in Massachusetts, when I was 17 years old. We grew up pretty poor, so we didn’t travel. My first flight was when I joined the army. I started…

Already out contention for a spot in the 2027 Asian Cup, India suffered another embarrassing defeat, losing 0-1 to Bangladesh in their penultimate Group C match of qualifying round in Dhaka on Tuesday. Sheikh Morsalin scored the all-important goal for Bangladesh in the 11th minute to the wild cheer of the capacity crowd at the National Stadium in Dhaka. The match, though, had been rendered inconsequential as both the sides were out of contention of the 2027 continental showpiece. India got a golden scoring chance in the 31st minute but Lallianzuala Chhangte’s right-footed shot from the top of the box…

Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Milan in February, curling superfans turn out in Sioux Falls, S.D., for trials to determine which U.S. team will compete in “chess on ice” against the world. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: You may not even know that the Winter Olympics are just 10 weeks away, but for athletes, now is crunch time. They are battling to secure spots on the U.S. team, and there are superfans following every step on the journey. NPR’s Pien Huang met some at the U.S. curling Olympic team trials in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.PIEN HUANG, BYLINE: It’s very cold in…

Facebook employee take a photo in front of new Meta Platforms Inc. sign outside the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. Tony Avelar/AP hide caption toggle caption Tony Avelar/AP A federal judge on Tuesday handed Meta a victory, ruling against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in an antitrust suit that claimed the social media giant stifled competition and bolstered a monopoly by buying upstart rivals. The FTC sued Meta five years ago alleging anti-competitive behavior in what has amounted to the biggest legal challenge yet to one of the world’s most influential social media companies. The…

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to revoke the Centre’s decision of appointing an interlocutor to discuss on the issues relating to Gorkhas in north Bengal while labelling the decision as arbitrary and unconstitutional. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. (PTI) This is the second letter that Banerjee has written to Modi on this issue. She had sent the first letter on October 18. “I once again look forward to your intervention and request you to revoke this unconstitutional and arbitrary order,” she wrote on Monday. In October this year,…