Новости за 09.09.2016

The U.S. government is moving to halt work on the controversial Dakota Access pipeline on some U.S. army land by asking the pipeline company to "voluntarily pause" construction in an area that the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe says holds sacred sites and artifacts.

BMW's board is skipping the Paris Motor Show, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

I need more Gaga Spice in my life.

Baby Spice, AKA Emma Bunton, shared a snippet of herself and Lady Gaga singing ten seconds of the Spice Girls penetration ballad "2 Become 1" on her Instagram account on Friday:

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AND NO, THIS ISN'T A PERFECT ILLUSION...

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...THIS IS A REAL, PERFECT MOMENT IN POP HISTORY:

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Diane Kruger and Mary J. Blige step out to celebrate at the Jimmy Choo 20th Anniversary Event during New York Fashion Week on Thursday night (September 8) in New York City. The 40-year-old actress and 45-year-old singer partied it up at the bash along with Kaia Gerber, Chanel Iman, Olivia Culpo, Jasmine Tookes, Jamie Chung [...]

 Drug addicts need our help, not our disdain.

The opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic has produced another grisly image: photos of a couple passed out in a car on heroin, with a 4-year-old child watching in the back of the vehicle.

The image — posted on Facebook by the local government in East Liverpool, Ohio — quickly took off on social media and Google.

“We feel it necessary to show the other side of this horrible drug,” the city wrote. “We feel we need to be a voice for the children caught up in this horrible mess.

Ford is accused of grabbing a woman on E. 161st St., throwing her to the ground and lifting her skirt.

A Bothell High School shop teacher who lied about being attacked at school was charged Friday with two gross misdemeanors.

The 24-year-old Catalan has featured in seven different positions for the Blaugrana - but he is making the right-back role his own under Luis Enrique

DETROIT (ANP/RTR) - De Amerikaanse autofabrikant General Motors (GM) roept wereldwijd bijna 4,3 miljoen auto's terug in verband met een mogelijke softwarefout waardoor de airbags bij een botsing dienst kunnen weigeren. Zeker één dodelijk ongeluk wordt met dat mankement in verband gebracht, meldde GM vrijdag.

The head of the government's fight against the Zika virus said that "we are now essentially out of money" and warned that the country is "about to see a bunch of kids born with microcephaly" in the coming months.

Two incumbent Democratic Massachusetts lawmakers will not be returning to Beacon Hill after losing their primary races, and Thursday's voting also set the stage for several other contests in November.

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Lacey Chabert, who played Gretchen Weiners in "Mean Girls," and husband David Nehdar welcomed their first child, daughter Julia Mimi Bella, on Sept. 1.

Volkswagen employees attempted to cover up cheating as investigators closed in

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A writer is in hot water for writing that he’ll never date a feminist — and then gives some ridiculous reasons why. Dave Hon, a columnist for Josephine magazine in St. Joseph, Missouri, wrote a baffling essay called “Why I’ll Never Date a Feminist”? “If you look for a reason to hate men, chances are you’re going to find it,” Hon began his column, citing a common — and incorrect — assumption that all feminists hate men and that feminism about something other than equality.

Facebook on Friday reversed its decision to censor an iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl escaping a napalm bombing, after the move set off a wave of outrage, including from Norway`s prime minister.

Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomhole has alleged that some governors in the south-south registered about 8,000 militants from their states with the intent to use them to rig the governorship election now shifted to September 28. The Governor, who spoke while playing host to the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Idris Ibrahim, at the Government House, […]

We’re totally here for Katie Holmes, who seems like the chillest of chill celebrities and is raising a daughter who promises to be just as adorable/badass as she is. AND, on a related note (we promise), we’re totally here for girl bands because HELLO, what’s better than girl power being channeled into music?

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Warsaw (AFP) - A porcelain Mickey Mouse figurine that once belonged to a child the Nazis deported to the Auschwitz death camp has been rediscovered after more than 70 years, a local foundation told AFP on Friday. 

"It's a sad object because it reminds us of a child who was probably gassed to death in the camp," Agnieszka Molenda, who runs the Foundation of Memory Sites near Auschwitz-Birkenau (FPMP,) told AFP.

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SpaceX founder and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk said on Friday morning that the company's launchpad rocket explosion is proving to be "the most difficult and complex failure" it has ever encountered.

On September 1, something turned a 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket — and Facebook's $200 million Amos-6 satellite — into a giant fireball, utterly destroying the rocket stack.

No one was hurt, but a team of investigators is trying to get to the bottom... Читать дальше...

At least seven people have been killed in a collision between a car and a bakkie on the road between St Faiths and Highflats.

CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) — A county prosecutor says she has asked a judge to review a sentence given to a former band teacher who may have inappropriately been given probation.