AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals court Friday night allowed Texas to temporarily resume banning most abortions, just one day after clinics across the state began rushing to serve patients again for the first time since early September. Abortion providers in Texas had been bracing for the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals to act quickly, even as they booked new …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Investigation is underway after a man was shot to death inside his car while attempting to leave a motel in north Harris County, authorities say. @HCSOTexas units are investigating a shooting at a motel located at 1425 Cypress Creek Pkwy. An unk suspect fired shots at a vehicle exiting the motel, striking an occupant in the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Saturday’s weather will be a lot like Friday’s. Expect a sunny day with fairly low humidity. Ground level Ozone will develop once again so plan your outdoor work and play for the morning or late evening hours, especially if you are an allergy sufferer. Sunday will be a lot stickier as middle summer humidity levels will …

ts KARACHI: While Toyota India has recently announced the move to discontinue Toyota Yaris, the same car in Pakistan has been shining since its launch in May 2020. In India, Yaris was launched in 2018 to compete with Honda City, Maruti Suzuki Ciaz and Hyundai Verna. In Pakistan, the launch of Toyota Yaris initially hit the sales of in-house product …

ISLAMABAD: Highlighting certain downside risks, the World Bank on Thursday said Pakistan’s economic growth rate slightly came down to 3.4 per cent during the current fiscal year against 3.9pc of last fiscal year. However, it pointed out, the growth rate can hit the 4pc mark in the next fiscal year (2023) if the government implemented key structural reforms. “In Pakistan, …

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Committee on Agriculture (FCA) on Thursday fixed wheat target at 28.9 million tonnes from a sowing area of 9.2 million hectares for the rabi season 2021-22, an increase of 1.4 million tonnes over last year’s production. Punjab will be producing 21.94 million tonnes, almost 75 per cent of the total wheat target, followed by 4,200,000 tonnes by …

PARIS: Images from Mars reveal how water helped shape the Red Planet’s landscape billions of years ago, and provide clues that will guide the search for evidence of ancient life, a study said on Thursday. In February, Nasa’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, where scientists suspected a long-gone river once fed a lake, depositing sediment in a fan-shaped delta …

STOCKHOLM: Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize for his writings on post-colonialism and the trauma of the refugee experience. Gurnah, who grew up on the island of Zanzibar but arrived in England as a refugee at the end of the 1960s, is the fifth African to win the Nobel Literature Prize. The Swedish Academy said …

LONDON: English Premier League club Newcastle United was sold to Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund on Thursday after a protracted takeover and legal fight involving concerns about piracy and rights abuses in the kingdom. The 300-million-pound ($409 million) takeover by the Saudi Public Investment Fund initially collapsed last year over concerns about how much control the kingdoms leadership would have …