HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — From their temporary home in Nigeria, Kristi and Okey Okwuonu watched the election returns and wondered if they will ever be able to come home. “There’s no doubt there’s been a lot of non-sleeping and non-eating so the election has been stressful because the election really determines our future,” said Kristi. Speaking through a crackly Zoom …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A statewide rapid testing program in schools is getting a lot of interest from school systems across the state. The program is voluntary and school systems must apply. As of Monday night, 247 school systems had been accepted into the program, less than a week after the program opened up statewide after a pilot program. Some …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Americans who voted on Election Day may feel uneasy over political divisions and are anxious about what will happen next. Eyewitness News spoke with a Houston-area doctor on Wednesday to learn how to overcome anxiety caused by the election.   Americans voting on Election Day are exhausted from constant crises, uneasy because of volatile political divisions …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man found shot to death at a high-rise apartment in Midtown Houston has been identified as a former member of the UH Cougars and Spring High School football teams. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences identified the victim from a deadly shooting early Wednesday as 22-year-old Ka’Darian Smith. According to police, Smith called his …

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS: The United States formally exited the Paris Agreement on Wednesday, fulfilling an old promise by President Donald Trump to withdraw the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter from the global pact to fight climate change. But the outcome of the tight U.S. election contest will determine for how long. Trump’s Democratic rival, Joe Biden, has promised to rejoin the agreement …

ISLAMABAD: The First-ever fastest 5G video call experiment has been carried out successfully in Pakistan. Federal Minister of IT and Telecommunication Syed Aminul Haque using high-speed internet made a 5G video call to Beijing and enjoyed the best quality of video and audio. The Inauguration ceremony of experimental 5G video call was held here at Zong Headquarter Islamabad. While speaking …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Blind Cricket Council, for the game development and to provide access to sports for female players with visual impairment, is conducting a training camp for blind women cricketers here in Islamabad from Nov 5-10. The camp will last for six days in which almost 30 women players from Peshawar, Abbottabad, Attock, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Gilgit-Baltistan will be provided …

BUENOS AIRES: Argentine football great Diego Maradona was in recovery after successful surgery to treat a subdural hematoma, a blood clot on the brain, the former World Cup winner’s doctor said late on Tuesday. The operation, after Maradona, 60, was admitted to hospital a day earlier, was to address the clot, often caused by a head injury, and which can …

CHRISTCHURCH: New Zealand head coach Gary Stead will be anxiously awaiting the outcome of medical checks over the next week with six of his cricketers nursing injuries as they prepare to face West Indies later this month. Stead’s side face the tourists, who are in isolation in a bio-secure facility in Christchurch for the next 10 days, in three Twenty20 …

KARACHI: The head of high performance coaching, Pakistan Cricket Board, Grant Bradburn has made his methodology clear by saying that coaching is about developing quality relationships, quality environments of learning with two things — winning and developing players. Talking in an interview to a private TV channel, the former Kiwi Test cricketer further said that they were guiding and challenging …