Новости за 27.07.2018

Democrat Haley Stevens is running for Michigan’s 11th Congressional District touting her experience as chief of staff in former President Barack Obama’s Auto Task Force, even though her official position was mid-level.

Seagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman wept in court Friday as family members signed on to pay her whopping $100 million bond, so she can stay out of jail while awaiting trial for her role in an upstate sex-slave cult. Dressed in a black long-sleeved shirt and baggy slacks, a blubbering Bronfman, 39, wiped tears from...

By Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Opposition lawmaker and oncologist Jose Manuel Olivares, who led protests over Venezuela's crumbling health sector, has fled for neighbouring Colombia after being told that his relatives could be arrested unless he quit politics.

Any reference to Test No. 752 will flood memories of that  classy knock of Gundappa Viswanath -  great bowling of Andy Roberts and the defeat (100 runs at that) suffered by Clive Lloyd against Pataudi led Indians in 1975.  Those days Pongal tests were great festivities and tension would build up couple of days before the match – India opening with Eknath Solkar and FArokh Engineer – lost both and were 24/2; Gaekwad went cheaply, so did ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia blocked the websites of some independent media on Friday, a human rights group said, just two days before a general election in which Prime Minister Hun Sen faces almost no challenge to his 33-year-old rule. Reuters could not reach a government spokesman for comment. Cambodia's independent media has come under increasing pressure from Hun Sen and his allies ahead of the vote

The longest total lunar eclipse of the century will be today. While the full eclipse will be over 6 hours, the total lunar eclipse 2018 - when the moon will be in the middle of Earth's shadow - will last for 1 hour and 43 minutes. The total lunar eclipse today will be the longest such eclipse for the next century, until June 9 2123. Moreover, today's eclipse is also the Blood Moon  ~ remember we enjoyed seeing this on 31st Jan 2018. 
A lunar eclipse is a celestial event which happens when Earth... Читать дальше...

By James Davey and David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Britons sweltered on what was dubbed "furnace Friday", though temperatures appeared not to have set new records after overnight storms, according to figures from government weather forecasters at the Met Office. On Thursday, temperatures reached 35.3 degrees Celsius at Faversham in Kent, southeast England, officially making it the hottest day of the year so far. "Today's provisional top temperature looks set to be 34.7C, recorded at Tibenham... Читать дальше...

Petchem along with refining to continue driving earnings

A closer look at some key metrics will tell us if this cybersecurity stock is one for the long haul.

Petchem along with refining to continue driving earnings

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has not instituted a policy of regime change or collapse in Iran, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday, saying the goal was still to curb what Washington sees as Iran's threatening behavior in the Middle East

For the fifth straight year, at least 1,500 people have died crossing the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe, the United Nations' migration agency said.

(Corrects par 13 to "Russia's annexation of Crimea") By Denis Pinchuk JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he had invited Donald Trump to Moscow and that both he and the U.S. president want further summits, despite the uproar in Washington after the two leaders met in Helsinki last week.

Coming up Monday, July 30th, 2018 at 8 PM Eastern on DragList LIVE, Bill Pratt will host an interview with one of Drag Racing’s legendary track announcers, Jim Senkewitz! From his days as a teenager calling the races at Pittsburgh International Dragway to his current gig at Keystone Raceway, Jim has seen it all! We’re […]

Pretty much the entire Pac-12 – maybe all of college football – is watching the experiment Arizona State launched in December when it hired Herm Edwards.

By Ola Lanre MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria has named its fourth commander in 14 months to lead the fight against the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency, a move sources say comes after a series of embarrassing military defeats. The reverses could hurt President Muhammadu Buhari's chances of re-election in Feb. 2019.

Eweka introduced himself to his victims as Sean Jackson and claimed to know employers across New York City, prosecutors said. After being told they were hired, the applicants paid fees ranging from $289 to $600

MoviePass will roll out new features to its program in the coming months.

…of things that are not supposed to be what they actually were. Anyone who sees a photo of Prudhomme’s Carefree ‘Cuda would say it was from 1973, and ninety-nine point nine percent of the time they’d be right. However, I believe the first photo I’m sending is from the final round of the New Year’s […]

Hattori Racing driver Brett Moffitt was made available to the media at Pocono Raceway: BRETT MOFFITT, No. 16 Toyota Tsusho Toyota Tundra, Hattori Racing - Would you be open to the Truck Series running more marquee events at local, short tracks? “More local short tracks, yes. I mean, the crowd there (Eldora Speedway) was amazing. I think everyone saw that and going to those markets like that is huge for this series – it’s where it came from – and we don’t need to run every Cup track I don’t feel.”

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities have identified a second victim of this week's flooding in Pennsylvania. The coroner said Friday a woman found by a civilian in Conewago Creek near Elizabethtown is 19-year-old Laura Olweiler. He says she died of accidental drowning. Her body was recovered Thursday less than a mile downstream from where police said she was swept into the swollen creek on Monday as she tried to cross it. An 18-year-old man also drowned, apparently when he was swept away by floodwaters... Читать дальше...

Though net bookings declined for mobile titles year-over-year, EA says that fall was offset by a strong debut from FIFA Mobile. ...

MANCHESTER UNITED will do some transfer business in the next few days, according to Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp.