Новости за 18.08.2015

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Jim Harbaugh greeted the start of fall camp with his usual zest.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Jim Harbaugh greeted the start of fall camp with his usual zest.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Jim Harbaugh greeted the start of fall camp with his usual zest.

North Yorkshire Police says it has found no evidence to link former prime minister Sir Edward Heath to a crime in its area.

Ahead of the assembly polls, the Centre has notified 21 districts of Bihar, including capital Patna, as “backward” areas for conferring income-tax rebate of 15 per cent on setting up of new manufacturing plants and buildings.

At the risk of facing charges of sexism, I’ll say that of two new streaming kids series, Netflix’sDinotrux is aimed at boys, while Amazon’s Wishenpoof will find its biggest audience among girls.  Dinotrux, based on a book series by Chris Gall, features big metal versions of ancient creatures: dinosaurs as trucks, with lots of clanking and crashing and banging around.

PM Narendra Modi (NaMo)’s promise “to change the face of Bihar” with bountiful offers has sparked a debate on whether the election-bound state is still on the BIMARU list.

Nutmeg attempts to win over customers from rival

If you love Labour, you need to vote for Yvette Cooper to lead the party to power. If winning elections and forming governments don’t matter to you, by all means vote for Jeremy Corbyn. If you hadn’t heard of him before the contest, it was probably because he never sat in a Cabinet meeting, he never informed policy, he never authored change on a national scale and he lacked the charisma of backbenchers like Tony Benn to become a known entity in his own right. He seems like a decent enough bloke... Читать дальше...

Ed Adamczyk
JACKSONVILLE, N.C., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Marine Corps is investigating the deaths of two Marines at its Camp Lejeune, N.C., training base.

Blind actress who played the unruly Lizzie Lakely in Emmerdale

Police are searching for Rosie O'Donnell's 17-year-old daughter Chelsea, who has been reported missing after leaving the family's home north of New York City last Tuesday.

A prisoner escaped from Australia’s toughest maximum-security jail after tying bed sheets together to climb over a wall, a report said.

Andrew V. Pestano
OKSIBIL, Indonesia, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Authorities have found the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the Trigana Air Service ATR 42-300 plane that crashed in Indonesia's Papua province.

The White House has appointed its first openly transgender staff member. Raffi Freedman-Gurspan has been hired as an outreach and recruitment director for presidential personnel in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, LGBT groups and the White House said Tuesday.Read full article >>

Activists from the Black Lives Matter movement challenged Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton to answer for criminal justice policies pursued by her husband’s administration and for the legacy of white privilege -- but Clinton told them to look for ways to change policies rather than trying to "change hearts."Read full article >>

Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday termed the “special” central assistance worth Rs 1.25 lakh crore as a bundle of “repackaged old projects” meant to mislead the people of poll-bound Bihar.

Mark Burnett's latest show sounds right in line with the reality TV impresario's well-worn strategy: a cast of aspiring inventors will battle to create the next big thing in wearable technology. There's a catch: "America's Greatest Makers," which will air on TBS, is brought to you by Intel.

Shares of Etsy Inc. fell nearly 7% in midday trade Tuesday, snapping a six-day winning streak, the longest in the company's brief history as a public company. Its shares traded around $16.18 in afternoon trade on relatively normal volume, pushing them down more than 22% on the month, versus flat performance for the broader S&P 500. The craft-goods e-commerce company went public on May 20 at $16 a share. On Aug. 4, it reported weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings, triggering a greater-than... Читать дальше...

Average price per tooth falls for the 2nd year in a row, from 3.70 in 2013 to 3.19 in 2015

Fred Lambert
BAGHDAD, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refuted a report alleging he and other officials were to blame for last year's fall of Mosul to the Islamic State.

M. Night Shyamalan’s star has been on the steady decline since “The Sixth Sense” set his bar almost unattainably high in 1999. There are some adamant “Signs” fans, and you might even find an apologist or two for “The Village” if you ask around. But “The Happening,” “Lady in the Water” (did anyone see that?), “The Last Airbender,” “After Earth” —none of these are good movies. The director's freshman film was 1992's “Praying with Anger” and concerns the journey of an East Indian teen  to India from the States to revisit his roots. Читать дальше...

“Fantastic Four” is the biggest trainwreck in theaters right now, which is surprising because there’s literally a movie called “Trainwreck” in theaters right now. With everyone scrambling to figure out what exactly went wrong with the comic-book-based flick, we learn that one of the scenes that could have helped it was left on the cutting room floor.

To give you a sense of just how fast Mexico is becoming a major automotive manufacturing hub, consider this: For its first three decades of sending its Mexican-made cars abroad, Nissan exported roughly 33,000 cars and trucks every year. But since 2002, that number has topped 307,000 units annually, a nearly tenfold average annual increase.

Karen Butler and Danielle Haynes
NYACK, N.Y., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Comedian and television personality Rosie O'Donnell said Tuesday her daughter Chelsea has been safe a week after the 17-year-old went missing.