Новости за 17.08.2016

Opposition parties are poised to unseat the African National Congress in Rustenburg at the first council sitting on Friday.

A hardhat working on an Astoria building was in grave condition Wednesday after he was found dangling from the fifth floor, officials said.

DETROIT (AP) — With all the attention paid to Tesla Motors' Autopilot system, you'd think the company was the only one making cars that can almost drive themselves. Automakers are feeling pressure to make sure tech companies like Google and Apple don't leapfrog them with driverless cars of their own. [...] if they aren't cautious enough, and driverless cars are deemed unsafe by consumers or regulators, a potentially life-saving technology might not make it to market. Critics have accused Tesla... Читать дальше...

DETROIT (AP) — With all the attention paid to Tesla Motors' Autopilot system, you'd think the company was the only one making cars that can almost drive themselves. Automakers are feeling pressure to make sure tech companies like Google and Apple don't leapfrog them with driverless cars of their own. [...] if they aren't cautious enough, and driverless cars are deemed unsafe by consumers or regulators, a potentially life-saving technology might not make it to market. Critics have accused Tesla... Читать дальше...

The second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an American-built, Canadian-owned sloop that sank in Lake Ontario more than 200 years ago, has been found, a team of underwater explorers said Wednesday. The three-member western New York-based team said it discovered ...

Gov. Pete Ricketts and Speaker of the Legislature Galen Hadley appealed again Wednesday for Sen. Bill Kintner to resign now so District 2 voters can have their say.

“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” is growing in Season 4. The ABC drama will add several new characters when it returns, but it still isn’t clear if any of these newbies are friends or foes. From professional competitors to new superheroes, there are plenty of new faces to meet.

SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Yonhap) -- A high-ranking North Korean diplomat in Britain has defected, local and foreign media reported on Wednesday, in the latest in a series of the North's elites abandoning their home country facing toughened international sanctio

The French photographer Charles Fréger has travelled the world in pursuit of people in costume. He has devoted projects to both imagined characters and real-life figures—road sweepers, water-polo players, practitioners of Mardi Gras rituals in New Orleans and pagan traditions in Europe—interested, always, in how people “look the part.” In his latest series, “YOKAINOSHIMA,” Fréger catalogues the monsters, or Yokai, of Japanese folklore. Made between 2013 and 2015, and collected in a book published this month by Thames & Hudson... Читать дальше...

The prolific striker returns to the Bundesliga after a brilliant season with Besiktas, and his new coach Dieter Hecking believes Die Wolfe have captured Germany's best forward

We hold huge amounts of repressed or denied grief, anger, trauma, memories, or emotional pain deep in the cells of our body, and every so often they make themselves known, as in an aching lower back or migraine headache.

"I try to just notice myself, without judgment," says Christine Evans in Your Body Speaks Your Mind: "I notice that I feel sick when my ex-lover rings, or sad when my lower back is massaged. I notice the area between my shoulder blades that aches when I'm tired or feeling tense. Читать дальше...

Obama has a two-week window in the first half of January when he's still president but the new Congress will have convened. He must take it if this blot on the US reputation is to end

Speciale politie-eenheden die vandaag in het oosten van Duitsland een 27-jarige man oppakten op verdenking van het plannen van een aanslag hebben daar geen aanwijzingen voor gevonden. Wel trof de politie in de flat van de arrestant IS-propaganda aan. De politie sluit daarom niet uit toch een IS-aanhanger te pakken te hebben.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Sue Bird and the U.S. women’s basketball team received some good news Wednesday when an MRI revealed that the team captain and point guard just had a knee capsule sprain. Bird had initially feared the injury would be much worse. “Obviously I felt a huge relief.” Bird said in a statement

Blinding white salt stretches across the earth to distant purple mountain ranges, an otherworldly landscape famous for providing a natural track for racers seeking breakneck speeds but fragile enough that rain can easily break it down.

A great offense, but they ranked 19th in goals-against last season.

Olympic steeplechase medalist Emma Coburn credits her U.S. track teammate with lending a hand with her hair.