Новости за 31.05.2013

Babatunde Osotimehin, HuffPo

Imagine living with a condition which forced you to change your wet, soiled clothes every few hours to try to hide your stench. Or which led to your family...

Editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz on New York City’s new bike-share program. Photo: Associated Press

Mission Provide the youth of Mansfield, MA an opportunity to play soccer and be part of a team in an enjoyable, fair and safe environment...

Caitlin Dewey, WorldViews

Istanbul was rocked by a violent police crackdown Friday when Turkish police moved in on the thousands of demonstrators who have been protesting in a downtown park...

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph Blogs

Another month, another 95,000 people lost their jobs in the eurozone.

Tennis Now’s Ted LePak reports on the results in Paris, John Isner the last American standing at the French Open, Stakhovsky’s $2,000 fine, Dimitrov asked where he is ranked in the top sexiest ATP players. Also the Tennis Channel losses a huge lawsuit with Comcast.

In the gym of the soon-to-be-shuttered Heidelberg High School, students, administrators, teachers and former students of the school with the leonine mascot gathered to hear it roar one more time, and bid it “Auf Wiedersehen.”

Marya Hannun, Passport

When, in 2010, Anamika Veeramani correctly sounded out the letters to "stromuhr" (I...

Why shouldn't your worktops be just as stylish as your wardrobe? From the latest gadgets to drop-dead gorgeous tableware, Trish Lorenz fills your cupboards with the latest culinary kit

In an anonymous corner office on the 7th floor of the Sony Building, M. Night Shyamalan lounges on a large butterscotch leather sofa. Is this really the director of The Sixth Sense, Signs, and The Happening? Shyamalan is a name-brand filmmaker known for his idiosyncratic, high-concept plots. The man sitting in front of me, dressed in a faded Iron Man T-shirt and jeans, looks cheery, relaxed, and decidedly modest. Then he starts discussing how housecats would survive the coming apocalypse

On the day its first Dreamliner touched down in the UK, TUI Travel today agreed a multi-billion-pound deal to buy more Boeing jets.

June 3 will mark 18 months since a 52-year-old trucker from Delaware rear-ended the family’s car, killing 21/2-year-old Aidan Curry. It also marks the statute of limitations to file misdemeano…

A Lincoln man believed to have fractured his 13-week-old son’s skull, collarbone and ribs, as well as lacerated his liver, has been sentenced to four to six years in prison.

The horror genre has been an especially fertile ground for memorable immersive marketing. Here are 12 examples of campaigns that successfully used horror to get lots of, um, eyeballs.

Congress may pass a major farm bill re- authorization this year for the first time since 2008. Farm bill supporters claim that draft bills in the House and Senate would save taxpayers billions of dollars, but that isn't the case. The bills would eliminate so-called direct payments to farmers, but the savings would be plowed into new subsidy programs and higher guaranteed prices for certain crops. What can be done to reform costly farm subsidies that harm agricultural markets and damage the environment? Читать дальше...