Daniel Zhang will be promoted to the executive chairman on September 10, 2019, while Ma remains a director on Alibaba's board.

Will it be Rafa versus Djoko in Sunday's final?

IMAGES from Day 7 of the US Open on Sunday

Here are some of the best images clicked across the globe in the month of August.

The world had almost completely forgotten about Partition, and many never learned about it, says Guneeta Singh Bhalla, the woman who founded the 1947 Partition Archive.

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field

We live in a wonderfully weird world and here's the proof!

The model is pregnant with her first child.

The North American bid beat the rival Morocco proposal, winning 134 votes to 65 for Morocco.

What this also does is create a new FAWG (Flipkart, Amazon, Walmart and Google) story for India very much like the FANG quartet (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google) have done for the global tech sector and the US stock markets, says Ganesh Natarajan.

FB gave these companies access to information of users and even their friends.

'If you allow Walmart to operate in India, our manufacturing will finish completely.' 'What will happen to Narendra D Modi's dream then? There will be no Make in India.'

'We must all commit to sharing less nonsense and quarrelling less on social media.' 'We could use that time instead to meeting and speaking to our friends and family instead of 'liking' their posts.' 'Zuckerberg will be the poorer for that, but our lives will be so much richer,' says Rahul Jacob.

50 years ago, on April 1, 1968, Tata Consultancy Services -- now India's leading IT company -- was born. The foundation for TCS was laid by Faqir Chand Kohli whose life touched directly or indirectly many, many, Indians, says Shivanand Kanavi.

The squads of both teams took part in the pre-game show of support for civil rights activists denouncing last Sunday's shooting death of Stephon Clark and the killing of numerous other African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement in recent years.

Zuckerberg, in an interview with The New York Times, referred to the artificial intelligence tools deployed by Facebook to detect fake accounts trying to manipulate news and influence the elections.

British data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica is at the centre of a controversy in India, the United States and Britain after two newspapers reported on Sunday that the company harvested personal data about Facebook users beginning in 2014. How does that matter, what does it entail and should you be worried? All these answers and more, explained right here.

Sujatha Gidla's scathing observations about Mahatma Gandhi and other highlights from Jaipur Literature Festival 2018.

An astute advertising professional, he took Ogilvy & Mather India to the number one position after coming on board as managing director in 1994

When he is not running Amazon, he buys museums to live in, donates mountains, and works on space travel.

Aseem Chhabra gives us the top films that enriched his year.

Russian firms expand their footprint in India. And take bigger steps to do business with India's private sector.

'Why do visas require the intervention of India's Union ministers? Does any civilised nation assure visas like this over Twitter?'

A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday

Kazuo Ishiguro has written eight books, as well as scripts for film and television, the Academy said.

Logan Lucky and It have many chuckle-worthy moments.

A glimpse into the flamboyant life of Hugh Hefner.

Denis Shapovalov may not be old enough to drink in New York but is quickly becoming the toast of the Big Apple and the 18-year-old Canadian will again have a chance to light up the U.S. Open when he takes on Briton Kyle Edmund.

Invests $1.1 billion in 6 months, against $3.7 billion in 20 years

'In India, China's capacities to conduct new types of warfare is critically underestimated,' says Claude Arpi.

'He has given us a history, a heritage that we can share with generations to come,' says Aseem Chhabra.

US fast-food giant McDonald's Corp has ended its 41-year-long Olympic Games sponsorship deal three years early, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday.

Cheetos has opened up the world's very first Cheetos Museum, giving Cheetos devotees a place to check out some unique Cheetos and Cheeto-themed exhibits. Check out this tasty museum!

Pop-art prince Jeff Koons unveiled his latest public art installation, "Seated Ballerina," a 45-foot inflatable sculpture at the busy center and it will preside over the Midtown landmark until June 2.

It's hot and sweltering and all we can do to survive this blistering heat is think of ice cream. And speaking of ice cream, the Museum of Ice Cream, a pop-up institution that fulfills all your childhood dreams, has opened up in Los Angeles and will run till May 29. And if we have to say, you won't learn a ton about ice cream except that it's delicious and a whole lot of fun!

The move by Westinghouse, which is to build six reactors in India under the Indo-US civil nuclear deal inked in 2008, has raised uncertainties over the future of the implementation of the historic pact.

Families of two Americans killed in terror attacks in Brussels and Paris have sued Twitter, accusing the micro-blogging site of being a "tool and weapon of terrorism".

Who will make the most of the disruptions of 2016 this year? Mihir Sharma's list of probables.

'The year in pictures' treks across the globe, looking back on the moments that shaped 2016. From the United States presidential race, to demonetisation in India to the refugee crisis, the news has kept pouring in. Here are our top 50 moments from the world.

Propelled to the position of the Secretary of State to "undo" years of American foreign policy "blunders and disasters", ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson now faces the biggest challenge of his life to translate his business acumen to international diplomacy.