Новости за 05.12.2017

American film star Dustin Hoffman had a tense exchange on Monday night with a prominent male TV host, who accused Hoffman of responding unsatisfactorily to accusations of sexual harassment.

La décision du Comité international olympique (CIO) de suspendre la Russie des Jeux olympiques de Pyeongchang suscite de nombreuses réactions. La directrice du laboratoire de contrôle du dopage sportif à l'INRS-Institut Armand Frappier à Laval, Christiane Ayotte, estime que la décision est complète.

PRETORIA - Mamelodi Sundowns ended Baroka FC's dream stint at the top of the league table as they recorded a 4-0 win over the Limpopo team, in an Absa Premiership match, played at the Lucas Moripe Stadium in Atteridgeville on Tuesday evening.

Hollis Johnson

• Consumer Reports published the results of its iPhone X tests. 
• The phone performed well in almost every category except durability, where it didn't hold up as well as the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus. 
• After tumble tests, two iPhone X devices had "malfunctioning displays" and a third device had a "significantly cracked" back. 

The iPhone X isn't the best iPhone you can buy, according to Consumer Reports. 

On Tuesday, the publication published... Читать дальше...

Facebook/AmazonFashion

• Amazon does not have any kind of socioeconomic stigma around shopping on the website.
• This enables it to attracts customers across the economic spectrum.
• This is an "underappreciated factor" for selling certain goods, especially clothing and fashion items.

Amazon's reputation is one of its strongest attributes — and that could represent trouble for the competition.

According to research by brokerage firm Instinet,... Читать дальше...

Intuit

• QuickBooks and TurboTax owner Intuit announced its plans to acquire a time tracking software company TSheets for $340 million.
• Intuit will keep TSheets' Idaho headquarters as well as its 260-person team.
• Co-founder and CEO Matt Rissell created TSheets after trying to solve time-tracking issues at his previous business. 

It's a rough day for Excel worksheets and calculators. 

QuickBooks owner Intuit announced on Tuesday that it's acquiring... Читать дальше...

And it won’t stop any time soon.

It’s rare that a rookie is able to come in and hold his own against the grown men around the NBA immediately. But it’s almost unprecedented for an NBA rookie to outperform every player in the league as soon as the season tips off.

That’s what Jayson Tatum is doing from the three-point line this season.

Tatum is shooting 51 percent from three-point range for the Celtics. When he got off to a hot start early this year, most people thought he’d cool off. Читать дальше...

To beg for leniency, defense attorneys are producing entire documentaries for an audience of one: the judge.

The 144 returnees from Libya were received by the wife of the Lagos state governor, Bolanle Ambode, who represented the First Lady of Nigeria, Aisha Buhari.

Fail to the chief! The MTA has left a “House of Cards” ad with a giant photo of Kevin Spacey in a major Brooklyn subway station — more than a month after sex abuse allegations against the actor began to emerge, The Post has learned. The “Underwood 2016” sign is displayed in the center of...

And now, on the latest episode of I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant, meet Sylvia the Linnaeus’s Two-Toed Sloth and her newborn! (Okay, we’re just kidding, but Animal Planet should get on that concept STAT.)

The billionaire investor was hit with allegations that he harassed six women in a recent Bloomberg report.

Instructively too, the army chief rummaged the conscience of the civil authority to step up efforts in the collective desire to finally defeat terrorism.

A set of questions from Senator Ron Wyden -- directed at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence -- have finally received answers. The answers [PDF] were actually given to the Senate oversight committee in July but have just now been made public.

Right-hander Miles Mikolas is returning from Japan, agreeing to a $15.5 million, two-year contract with the St. Louis Cardinals.

In the long, tangled history of the Olympics and doping, there has never been a finer moment.

After investigations into doping, Russians won't be allowed to compete under their own flag.

Former Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko has been handed a lifetime ban from involvement in future Olympic Games by the IOC. Mutko, who held the post from 2008 to 2016 and is now deputy prime minister, was sanctioned on Tuesday after the release of the Schmid Report, commissioned by the IOC, confirmed allegations of widespread manipulation of anti-doping procedures during his tenure, chiefly at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Based on the findings of the report, the IOC Executive Board also... Читать дальше...

La juge choisie par Justin Trudeau pour siéger à la Cour suprême du Canada (CSC) semble avoir convaincu les parlementaires de ses compétences de juriste, de son bilinguisme et de sa capacité d'écoute - le tout en faisant étalage de son sens de l'humour et de la répartie.

La juge albertaine choisie par Justin Trudeau pour siéger à la Cour suprême du Canada a brisé la glace mardi, à Ottawa, se prêtant au jeu des questions et des réponses lors d'une séance plénière avec les parlementaires.

Oct. 14 should have marked a special day for Nikki Salgot. It’s the day she was supposed to marry her fiancé Collin Rose.

French President Emmanuel Macron's popularity rose above 50 percent for the first time since he was elected in May with people approving of the way he defends the country's interests abroad, a poll showed on Tuesday. The poll, conducted by Ifop-Fiducial for Paris Match magazine, saw the head of state's popularity jump 6 percent compared to the same survey in November. It comes after Macron undertook a three-day tour to Africa promising a break from the past. During the trip, he was praised... Читать дальше...

AC Milan may be considering a new offer for Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud, according to Newsmondo.it. The Frenchman’s future at the club has been placed back on the agenda once again after France assistant manager Guy Stephan commented that the forward is not getting enough game time with the Gunners to warrant selection for the national team. Stephan believes that Giroud “needs to find a solution” and he suggests that the player look for a loan deal in the January window to get more minutes on the pitch. Читать дальше...

Blues manager Antonio Conte has confirmed Luiz will miss out with an ongoing knee problem while denying reports the Brazil defender’s absence was down to a breakdown in their relationship. 
 The 30-year-old has played only once since criticising his manager’s tactics for Chelsea’s defeat to Roma in October. 
 Striker Michy Batshuayi could feature after being left on the bench for the win over Newcastle and Gary Cahill is in line for a recall at the back with Antonio Rudiger dropping out... Читать дальше...