Donald Trump taps Nikki Haley as US ambassador to UN

WASHINGTON: A daughter of Sikh immigrants to the United States has become President-elect Donald Trump’s first female cabinet-level nominee. South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, born Nimrata Randhawa, will be the Trump administration pick for ambassador to the United Nations, his transition team announced Wednesday morning.

Toyota plans to sell more hybrid cars in India

NEW DELHI: Toyota Motor Corp expects hybrid cars to make up 20 percent of its total vehicle sales in India by 2020 from less than 2 percent today, a senior company official told Reuters.

How the Iranian-Saudi proxy struggle tore apart the Middle East

RIYADH: Behind much of the Middle East’s chaos – the wars in Syria and Yemen, the political upheaval in Iraq and Lebanon and Bahrain – there is another conflict.

Facebook said to create censorship tool to get back into China

SAN FRANCISCO: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, has cultivated relationships with China’s leaders, including President Xi Jinping. He has paid multiple visits to the country to meet its top internet executives. He has made an effort to learn Mandarin.

Barack Obama’s not-so-secret admirer: Donald Trump

NEW YORK: President Barack Obama has a new fan: Donald Trump.

After lambasting Obama for months as a failed leader unfit to be president, the Republican president-elect found kinder words on Tuesday for the man he will succeed in the White House on January 20.