UVALDE, Texas (KTRK) — As gunfire rang out in her fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary on awards day at school, 11-year-old Miah Cerillo put blood on herself and played dead, according to her aunt. Blanca Rivera lives in Houston but has been in contact with her brother, Miah’s father, since the tragedy in Uvalde. On the day of the shooting, …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston city leaders have been assuring safety and security in advance of the National Rifle Association convention, which got underway Friday at the George R. Brown Convention Center. But none of the leaders ignored the potential for high tension in the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman unleashed a …

HOUSTON, Texas — Street artist Banksy has always been known for his secrecy, and Houston will get a taste of that when the new immersive art exhibition, Banksyland, comes to the city for a brief stint, August 12-14. Taking place in a secret location somewhere in Houston that will be revealed to ticketholders only two weeks before the opening of …

DHAKA: Sri Lankan seamers cut through the Bangladesh top order in the second innings after centuries from Angelo Mathews and Dinesh Chandimal gave the visitors a commanding lead in the second Test here at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Thursday. Bangladesh were a dangerous 34-4 at stumps on the fourth day and still need another 107 runs to ward off …

PARIS: Unstoppable world number one Iga Swiatek racked up her 30th successive victory at the French Open on Thursday as Karolina Pliskova became the sixth top 10 women’s seed to exit Roland Garros when she was knocked out by world number 227 Leolia Jeanjean. Swiatek swept past Alison Riske of the United States 6-0, 6-2 to reach the third round. …

JAKARTA: A heart-breaking 3-2 loss to Japan was made even worse for Pakistan when India put 16 goals past Indonesia on Thursday to not only put the arch-rivals out of the Super 4s stage at the Asia Cup but also crush their hopes of making it to next year’s World Cup. Pakistan went into their final Group ‘A’ match here …

KARACHI: Pakistan needed a middle order counter-attack once again to cross the finish line against Sri Lanka in the second Twenty20 International and secure an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series here at the Southend Club on Thursday. After the top-order failed to give Pakistan a solid start in their chase of a 103-run target set by the visitors, it …

Meta Platforms Inc’s image-sharing platform Instagram was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. More than 6,000 users reported issues with Instagram on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage may be affecting a larger number of users. According to the website, 84 per …

DAVOS: Cryptocurrency firms, many of which lined the main street in Davos this week, were told they will need to clean up their act before gaining complete acceptance from the World Economic Forum’s old guard. “The future of crypto, I’m sorry to say, looks regulated to me,” said Nela Richardson, senior vice president and chief economist for human resources software …