Новости за 28.02.2016

Melissa Harris-Perry will not be back on MSNBC. On Sunday morning, two days after the host's private fight with management went public, an MSNBC spokesman confirmed that the channel is "parting ways" with her.

Gunmen killed a pro-government Sunni Salafist cleric on Sunday in Yemen's main southern city of Aden, home to a growing jihadist presence, a security official said. Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Adani was shot dead as he was heading to a mosque near his home, the official said.

Gunmen killed a pro-government Sunni Salafist cleric on Sunday in Yemen's main southern city of Aden, home to a growing jihadist presence, a security official said. Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Adani was shot dead as he was heading to a mosque near his home, the official said.

Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict will sit out the first three games of the 2016 season while serving a suspension for repeated violations of the league’s player safety rules, but that hasn’t soured the team on the linebacker. Despite the damage done by penalties for those violations, director of player personnel Duke Tobin said that the…

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There's money to be made selling an Uber decal or Lyft mustache, as long as you don't need them to make money on as a driver for either company.

The insignia are a sort of trade dress for the burgeoning ride-hailing industry.

Uber has a glowing "U" that its drivers affix to their windshields, while Lyft cars sport "glowstaches." When Lyft started, it distinguished itself from all of the other cars on the road with a giant pink mustache. 

As more drivers join the ride-hailing services and subsequently leave... Читать дальше...

The crowd noise was deafening at times at the Clay Kaserne Fitness Center on Saturday as 19 cheer squads faced off at DODEA-Europe’s 21st Annual Cheer Tournament of Champions.

Though voters may speak piously and rather vaguely about Christian values and ideals, polls and election results communicate clearly that this is a nation consumed by fear, anger and suspicion, none of which are Christian virtues.

Three times on Sunday morning, Donald Trump was given the chance to disavow the support his campaign is getting from white supremacist groups. And three times, he balked.

The flurry of recent legislative activity represents a sea change for the industry, which for years was content to operate largely …

A total of 32 cyclists participated in Karavali Brevet 2016, a 200 km event organised by Mangalore Cycling Club (MACC) on Sunday.

Daesh claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack on the Shiite district in the suburbs of Baghdad, the Iraqi News Agency said Sunday.

What will academics 1,500 years from now draw on as evidence of life in 2016?

LONDEN (ANP) - Beleggingsfondsen hebben in januari ruim 60 miljard dollar (55 miljard euro) aan middelen zien wegstromen. Daarmee liepen de onttrekkingen uit fondsen op tot het hoogste peil sinds het dieptepunt van de financiële crisis, stelde de Britse krant Financial Times zondag.

Sunday’s NFL Scouting Combine workout started with really big men — defensive linemen — running really fast 40-yard dashes. Ohio State’s Joey Bosa, one of the draft’s top players and a candidate to go No. 1 overall, posted unofficial 40 times of 4.87 and 4.89. That’s pretty fast for a player who measured 6-foot-5, 269…

Students from all parts of the Nigeria sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) organised by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Saturday, February 28, 2016. This was in anticipation of an offer of admission to tertiary institutions of their choices. But photos obtained by Naij.com show some of these students sleeping […]

Newly released emails from Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder reveal some of his top aides advocated switching Flint’s drinking water away from the highly corrosive Flint River a year before the seriousness of the crisis became clear. The emails, released after public pressure for transparency, provide insight into what happened behind the scenes as the crisis unfolded. In one, dated October 14, 2014, Valerie Brader, the governor’s deputy legal counsel and ...

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George Friedman founded Strategic Forecasting in 1996. Stratfor's existence is based on the controversial but now influential premise that geopolitical events can be anticipated and even predicted in ways that can benefit private-sector actors.

Friedman stayed at the pioneering political-risk firm until May 2015, when he left to found a new company called Geopolitical Futures.

Friedman is a commentator on international affairs and author of the book "The Next... Читать дальше...

BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) — The cruise ship that was battered by a major storm earlier this month has turned around midtrip to avoid another squall in the Atlantic Ocean.

Sawyer DeVuyst is a 30-year-old transgender artist, model, and furniture maker based in New York.

Texas senator accuses Trump of having a "bombshell" in his tax returns.

China isn't just contending with falling stocks, a plunging currency and a slowing economy.

China isn't just contending with falling stocks, a plunging currency and a slowing economy.

China isn't just contending with falling stocks, a plunging currency and a slowing economy.

On Friday, as finance ministers and central bankers of the Group of 20 major economies began meeting in Shanghai, Zhou Xiaochuan, head of China's central bank, insisted that Chinese authorities closely monitor debt loads. China's total debts — everything owed by corporations, households, government and financial firms — climbed from $6.6 trillion in mid-2007 to $31.9 trillion by mid-2015. [...] local governments piled up debt to finance the construction of low-income apartments, roads and other projects meant to juice growth. Читать дальше...