Новости за 06.12.2017

Guillermo Rigondeaux fires back at those critical of his style ahead of his big fight against Vasyl Lomachenko, which looms this weekend.

Penn State’s Saquon Barkley is the offensive player of the year for the second straight season and Iowa linebacker Josey Jewell is defensive player of the year on The Associated Press All-Big Ten Conference team released Wednesday. Wisconsin took the other two top honors. Freshman running back Jonathan Taylor was voted newcomer of the year […]

An appeal court in southern France ordered billionaire Russian businessman and senator Suleyman Kerimov to post bail of 40 million euros ($47 million) on Wednesday pending a tax fraud investigation.

American President Donald Trump’s recent statements recognizing a unified Jerusalem as the capital of Israel caused uproar across Palestinian areas of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip on December 5. Fatah, Hamas, and other Palestinian political entities have all refuted the claim, which goes against all prior roadmaps for peace laid out by American and international negotiators since the signing of the Oslo Accords in the 1990s. The territorial status of Jerusalem has always been... Читать дальше...

Defending Louisiana Champions Day Classic winner Mobile Bay leads a field of eight Louisiana-breds in the 27th running of the $150,000 event on Saturday, Dec. 9 where he will break from post three, but the 5-year old son of Lone Star Special will have to overcome a 10-month layoff if he wants to protect his title. Trained by Victor Arceneaux and ridden by Diego Saenz, the state-bred millionaire was last seen winning the Louisiana Bred Premier Night Championship Stakes at Delta Downs in February, his lone start of the year. Читать дальше...

“This was not just folks losing their mind on one day; this was a series of events.”

Anyone who saw Pelosi's "icon" defense of Rep. Conyers won't be surprised.

The parliamentary secretary responsible for local councils, Silvio Parnis, was unable to say in parliament this evening whether the new Roads Authority would take over responsibility for residential roads from local councils. The minister was asked to clarify the point in repeated questions by Nationalist MPs Chris Said and Robert Cutajar in reaction to recent comments by Roads Minister Ian Borg. Mr Parnis said it was best to ask Dr Borg, but he could promise that the government would not burden the local councils with new debts. Читать дальше...

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• Disney is reportedly in talks to buy 21st Century Fox's TV assets.
• RBC analyst Steven Cahall breaks down the potential details of the deal and thinks 21st Century Fox will spin off the assets Disney isn't interested in.
• 21st Century Fox could grind higher as the details of the deal are worked out and announced, Cahall said.
• Watch 21st Century Fox's stock price change in real time here.

It's looking like Disney could... Читать дальше...

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• Congressional negotiations on legislation to avoid a government shutdown have hit stumbling blocks in recent days.
• The conservative House Freedom Caucus has grown frustrated with GOP leadership's plan for the negotiations.
• Congress is facing a Friday deadline to avoid a shutdown.

Congressional negotiations on averting a partial shutdown of the federal government are starting to look a lot more difficult.

The conservative House Freedom... Читать дальше...

Over the last three decades, the Nigerian creative sector, specifically tourism, culture and arts, has not been considered a key contributor to the economy. The creative sector contributes generously to the foreign exchange earnings of many countries including South-Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Tanzania and the UAE. Unfortunately in Nigeria, the sector contributes less than 1.5 percent […]

Der vorzeitige Abgang von Gerald Pichowetz als Mörbisch-Intendant könnte noch ein gerichtliches Nachspiel haben. Pichowetz habe gegen die Seefestspiele eine Klage eingebracht, bestätigte Seefestspiele-Geschäftsführer Dietmar Posteiner am Mittwoch einen Bericht des ORF Burgenland. Details zum Inhalt der Klage wollte er nicht nennen.

Processed with VSCOcam with c1 preset Here we are party people, the next round of the Champions Europa League is nearly upon us. The CL comp is like a shite New Years party at Vodka Revs. Top talent has turned up, surveyed the crappy clientele, and decided they want out. They want the hipper party that’s serving quinoa and marmite cocktails, they want to hang with a lucid crowd still chasing indie rock n roll dreams in their late twenties, they want to chat over a bag of mystery about the... Читать дальше...

HIALEAH, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities say a man was found in a car with the body of a dead woman and that both were covered in blood. Hialeah Fire Capt. Cesar Espinosa said a passerby spotted the two in the car parked outside Hialeah City Hall on Wednesday morning. The Miami Herald reports the woman was dead. The man was taken to the hospital for what Espinosa called "his altered mental status." Authorities said it's unclear whether the two had a relationship and were still investigating how the woman was killed... Читать дальше...

US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr.

• The US responded to North Korea's latest missile launch with a simulated bomb run from a B-1B Lancer bomber and an F-22, a marked escalation in military signaling.
• North Korea hates the B-1 bomb runs, and have threatened to shoot the plane down.
• But the US's F-22 is fully stealth, and North Korea likely can't hope to down it.
• With the US's most lethal planes doing the signaling, it's unclear how much higher tensions can rise. Читать дальше...

The Hamilton Port Authority has created a tuition-support fund to help students who enrol in a new post-graduate certificate program in supply chain management at Hamilton's Mohawk College.

Apple’s iOS 11 is now on almost six in 10 of the company’s mobile devices, according to new data shared by the company.

Scotty of Strange Parts took a train across India to try to make a manhole cover at a cast iron foundry. His goal was to replace an existing manhole cover on Mission Street in San Francisco with his homemade manhole cover. Even though he failed, because everyone at the foundries thought he was an industrial spy, it's fascinating to get an inside look at a small foundry in India and to meet the very nice foundry owner. Scotty also started to have second thoughts about putting a manhole of his own design on a city street. Читать дальше...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The youngest son of a black motorist who was shot to death by a white former police officer asked a judge Wednesday to hand down the stiffest sentence possible: life in prison. Clutching a framed photograph of his father, Miles Scott said he has had trouble sleeping since his father, Walter Scott, was shot in the back while running from then-officer Michael Slager after a traffic stop in 2015. He said he misses watching football games with his dad and is upset he would never see him play the game himself. Читать дальше...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The youngest son of a black motorist who was shot to death by a white former police officer asked a judge Wednesday to hand down the stiffest sentence possible: life in prison. Clutching a framed photograph of his father, Miles Scott said he has had trouble sleeping since his father, Walter Scott, was shot in the back while running from then-officer Michael Slager after a traffic stop in 2015. He said he misses watching football games with his dad and is upset he would never see him play the game himself. Читать дальше...

Gargantuan Black Hole Discovered in the Young Universe

The giant black hole is one of the biggest ever observed from this far back in time.

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Artist’s conception of the most-distant supermassive black hole ever discovered, which is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang.

Robin Dienel, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science.

Space

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• Six women filed a lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday alleging that Harvey Weinstein and his associates' efforts to cover up sexual misconduct allegations amounted to racketeering.
• The women are seeking class-action status to represent "dozens, if not hundreds" of other victims.
• The suit alleges that Weinstein and the companies he worked with conspired to cover up sexual assault and harassment.

Six women filed... Читать дальше...

The US Syrian strategy has yet to be clearly articulated, Parwez Rahim Kader, a lecturer with the Erbil-based Salahaddin University, told Sputnik, commenting on the US-Turkish controversy over American military aid to the Syrian Kurds. According to Kader, if the US halts supplying arms to the Kurds, the latter may seek closer ties with Damascus.

ICM Partners has vowed to reach 50-50 gender parity on its staff and in leadership roles by the year 2020. The talent agency intends to hire and promote women over the next two years so they make up at least half of its partners, department heads and board of directors. “It’s not enough to have 50 percent [female] employees,” ICM managing director Chris Silbermann told The Hollywood Reporter, which first reported the news. “Women have to be equally represented in true positions of leadership and influence throughout the company.