Новости за 23.09.2015

John Howe, a former Republican state senator and mayor of Red Wing, is joining the race for the open seat in Congressional District 2.

Shanta Basak had no worries when her husband was transferred to Chennai. Their house was in a peaceful neighbourhood in Garia.

Sean Combs tops Forbes magazine's annual list of "The World's Highest-Paid Rap Acts."

Visitors from across the globe are flocking to Philadelphia's Center City district as workers race to prepare for the arrival of Pope Francis later this week. The preparations, which include erecting miles of barriers to cordon off the downtown cathedral and other areas where Francis is scheduled...

CONCORD, New Hampshire - A New Hampshire man recovering at home from serious burns suffered in a water park explosion in Taiwan says support from his family and friends have kept him going as he thinks about that June day the flammable powder blew up over a stage.

WASHINGTON — Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus apologized to Congress on Tuesday for sharing classified information with his biographer and mistress, Paula Broadwell. Petraeus appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee, offering his recommendations for how the U.S. should address what he called a “revolutionary upheaval that is unparalleled in its modern history.” In Syria, he recommended the U.S. take a harder stance against President Bashar Assad. Petraeus began his testimony, however... Читать дальше...

It seemed like Ariana Grande didn't skip a beat when it came to moving on with her life following her surprising split with rapper Big Sean, something Scream Queens creator Ryan Murphy...

And they were all once friends who had jumped into the realty business together in the lure of quick money.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota agency commissioner will have a voice on a new advisory council of the powerful Federal Reserve Board.

Otoe County has earned a designation as a state Enterprise Zone, the Nebraska Department of Economic Development announced Tuesday.

A Saudi detainee and a longtime hunger striker at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was once deemed too dangerous to release, has been repatriated, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

A 20-year-old college student’s body was found floating in a pond near Sodepur on Tuesday morning after he had gone missing since Monday evening.

EU leaders will convene Wednesday to discuss an overall approach to resolving the refugee crisis.

One of the most surreal moments of Pope Francis’s visit to Cuba came yesterday, when, during his second stop in the desultory eastern city of Holguín, the heavens opened up and a tropical downpour ensued, inundating the countryside and causing the region’s rivers to flood. It was the end, seemingly, of a long sequía (dry spell) that had the Cubans fretting and complaining about the unseasonably high temperatures, and about the lack of water in the country’s reservoirs. In Holguín, a man looked as me as the rains came and waggishly said... Читать дальше...

Now you can play an even higher-definion version of Looking Glass and Origin's formative 1994 first-person masterpiece.

An Air India flight from New Delhi to Osaka via Hong Kong was diverted to Kolkata on early Tuesday morning due to a technical snag.

Pathogens love humans---and their cats.

The post Stunning Map Shows Pathogens Hopping Between Species appeared first on WIRED.

Pathogens love humans---and their cats.

The post Stunning Map Shows Pathogens Hopping Between Species appeared first on WIRED.

Greece's foreign, defense and finance ministers remained in office in the new coalition government of the country.

The Kolkata Police on Tuesday finally made a breakthrough in the robbery that took place at Jodhpur Garden in the Lake area in August, even as it faced criticism from different quarters for failing to stop four such crimes in the past two weeks.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's newly re-elected left-wing government has retained Euclid Tsakalotos as finance minister to continue tough negotiations with other eurozone countries on the term…

BEIRUT — Russia has flown military jets and artillery to Syria, according to a U.S. official, raising concerns among Syrian opposition groups that the move would derail United Nations efforts to end the conflict. The U.S. is not sure whether the Russian equipment sent to the Syrian air base in Latakia in the past three or four days is meant to support the government of President Bashar Assad or fight Islamic State militants, said the official, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive information. Читать дальше...

MBBS students at Calcutta National Medical College (CNMC) re-launched their agitation on Tuesday, demanding punishment for two post-graduate trainee (PGT) doctors as their “negligence” led to the death of final-year student, Ritesh Jaiswal.