Новости за 21.12.2017

“The team was good and it was doing quite well, but the owner wanted to improve the quality of the game. We were called for that and that was what we tried to do, but you need time.

“We did well in some matches, but we lost a lot so I think some players were afraid about the table and then things become more and more difficult.

“But I think that the main problem was that we couldn’t start the season. That’s why now we (him and Zola) have decided to wait for a project we can... Читать дальше...

Bayern München hat den deutschen Fußball-Nationalstürmer Sandro Wagner verpflichtet. Der 30-Jährige erhält beim deutschen Serienmeister einen Vertrag bis Juni 2020, gab dieser am Donnerstag bekannt. Wagner kommt vom Bundesliga-Rivalen 1899 Hoffenheim und soll bei den Münchnern als Ersatzmann für Stürmerstar Robert Lewandowski fungieren.

Der kubanische Staatschef Raul Castro wird im April kommenden Jahres sein Amt abgeben. Die kubanische Nationalversammlung beschloss am Donnerstag laut Berichten der offiziellen Staatsmedien, am 19. April den Staatsrat zu wählen, der wiederum den Nachfolger für Castro bestimmen wird. Ursprünglich war dieses Prozedere für Februar geplant gewesen.

Jesse James is trying to catch, if nothing else, his breath. The Steelers tight end, thrust into the spotlight after the catch that wasn’t on Sunday, just wanted his phone to shut up in the aftermath. And so the third-year player out of Penn State, with 28,000 and counting Twitter followers, shut it off. “Hearing...

Magic Leap's first mixed reality headset, the Leap One, is coming in early 2018. It looks pretty damn neat, assuming it delivers on everything it's promising — and as long as you can get over its weird design.

Laolu Osinbajo in this piece talks about the importance of the role of young people in actualising and developing the vision for a thriving continent.

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin is rejecting allegations that a prominent Russian theater and film director under investigation for embezzlement is being pursued for his iconoclast views. Kirill Serebrennikov's productions were reviled by conservative circles, which saw them as decadent and unpatriotic. Serebrennikov has been under house arrest in August on charges of scheming to embezzle about $1.1 million in government funds allocated for some of his productions. He rejected the charges... Читать дальше...

The poor reptile was found trapped among some bales of cocaine worth more than $53 million, with significant chaffing from the ropes on his neck and flippers.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Humane Society of Missouri says about 100 dogs and cats have been removed from a property in the western part of the state where they were living in "squalid conditions." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the 84 dogs and 17 cats were confiscated Wednesday from Bates County and brought to St. Louis. Vets were examining the animals on Thursday. The Human Society said in a news release that many of the animals were living in filthy crates and had no room to stand up. Читать дальше...

Alex Donnachie, Bruno Hoffman, and the lens work of Rich Forne...Need I say more? This latest piece to the Vans 'Unfiltered' series BANGS!

Im derzeit wohl spektakulärsten Salzburger Kriminalfall - jenem des tot in einem Schweinestall entdeckten Stadt-Salzburgers Roland Krenn (63) - ist jetzt ein neuropsychiatrisches Gutachten zur Frage der Zurechnungsfähigkeit und des Geisteszustands des 24-jährigen mordverdächtigen Musikers eingelangt.

NEW YORK (AP) — Arguably the biggest thing that came from Hollywood this year wasn't a movie or a TV show. It had heroines and villains, but no script. And it went viral despite having no big publicity machinery behind it. The women who initially spoke out against sexual misconduct in Hollywood this fall — inspiring millions to tell their own stories of harassment and illegality on social media — have been named The Associated Press Entertainer of the Year, voted by members of the news cooperative and AP entertainment reporters.

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North Carolina Speaker of the House Representative Tim Moore, center, flanked by fellow Republicans, speaks at a press conference in Raleigh

This fall, in a dispute over gerrymandering, federal judges stripped North Carolina lawmakers of the power to draw their own state district lines. The decision was just the latest setback for the state’s Republican legislative leaders: Federal courts have overturned restrictions on abortion and same-sex marriage... Читать дальше...

A right-wing artist claims to be the person behind the posters that popped up around Los Angeles this week featuring Meryl Streep next to Harvey Weinstein with the phrase “She Knew” written across the actress’s eyes.

Ezra exhorted Palestinians to "negotiate directly with the Israelis," but they did indeed do precisely that during the Oslo Accord talks.

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Week 15 of the NFL season, at long last, gave us some big answers to the playoff race.

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Technology that allows mammals to breathe underwater, something that Russian researchers have been working on for years, has been vividly proved in an admittedly disturbing demonstration involving a dog. The scientific breakthrough will help save lives of preterm infants and prevent disasters on submarines.

For Brooklyn, Harper, Romeo and Cruz Beckham, having Victoria Beckham has a mother comes with a few perks. They’ve got unlimited access to expert fashion advice, on-demand Spice Up Your Life singalongs, and front-row access to one of the chicest fashion shows during every fashion week. But for Brooklyn, being the son of VB also means taking beauty advice — and criticism — whenever it’s offered.

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Apple won praise earlier this year when it revealed that apps that had used Touch ID — the company’s well-established fingerprint-based authentication system — would automatically support Face ID, the new facial recognition system launched for the latest iPhone.

Replacing an entire user interface (UI) paradigm while requiring no action from app developers is a neat trick, and it’s one Apple accomplished via application programming interface, or API, design. Though the... Читать дальше...

This is no joke — the winner of a closely-watched race in a Virginia House election will be randomly selected by plucking a name out of a glass bowl. The drawing in the tied race for a House of Delegates seat will take place next Wednesday, Virginia Board of Elections Chairman James Alcorn announced Thursday...