Новости за 25.09.2015

The Telegram & Gazette (http://bit.ly/1MNpMCi ) reports that the policy was announced just a couple days before the school year began at Burncoat High School and South High Community School. The district's school safety liaison says the ban is part of efforts to prevent youth violence.

Former India paceman Amit Bhandari was on Friday appointed as assistant coach of the Delhi Ranji Trophy team.

How one of the world’s most exclusive regattas owes its existence to a humble roll of tissue paper

MECCA, Saudi Arabia - The latest developments on the crush and trampling to death of hundreds of Muslim pilgrims near a holy site in Saudi Arabia, the worst hajj disaster in a quarter-century (all times local).

It doesn't look like a great time financially to be a young adult. Citizens Advice warned this week that today's 17 to 24-year-olds face becoming a generation mired in problem debt. Anecdotally, I've heard tales of young people slipping into money problems after being handed easy credit – but the charity's report, “Unsecured and insecure?”, provided more evidence.

The stock market is not only be vulnerable to Janet Yellen’s words, but also somewhat vulnerable to her health, if our chart of the day’s depiction of the reaction in the futures market is accurate.

Unlike the families of the 43 students who disappeared a year ago, Julio Cesar Mondragon's loved ones were left with a body to bury. But there is little comfort in that, because Mondragon's corpse bore witness to the horror of his final moments.

John Boehner's tenure as speaker of the House doesn't include any obvious legislative accomplishments. That's because the Ohio congressman, who's resigning from Congress at the end of October, spent his five years as speaker battling the conservatives in his party. Boehner's actual legacy is something that might be more notable in his absence. As often as not, his job was simply to keep the federal government running over the protests of conservatives looking to shut it down or miss key deadlines over one issue or another. Читать дальше...

Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Friday said that Indian sports federations should learn from its overseas counterparts to prepare athletes for the Rio Olympics next year.

Very often things turn out to be not what they seem. And there are cases when it’s not just a coincidence or an optical illusion – it is the result of a cunning disguise. Here are 18 cases when people, animals, plants and usual objects became “friends among foes”, as well as “foes among friends”, […]

Border lift ends a week of trade war that plunged relations between the two Balkan states to their lowest since Yugoslavia broke up in blood in the 1990s

On paper, the hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton should be a joke. On this week's +1 podcast, NPR Music's Timmhotep Aku tells us why it isn't.

Former business leader Carly Fiorina has amassed a group of Minnesota supporters, including state Senate GOP leader David Hann, in her bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

"We believe the complainant's mother has carried out an elaborate hoax."

Wade Sheridan
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Screenwriter Shona Rhimes' television empire took over ABC Thursday with the season premieres of {i:Grey's Anatomy}, {i:Scandal} and {i:How to Get Away with Murder}.

Italy's best known investigative journalist accused of plagiarising other authors' work in new book by American news website

Italy's best known investigative journalist accused of plagiarising other authors' work in new book by American news website

Entering the home stretch, all three parties can take a moment to consider whether their pitch is perfect, or needs a tweak

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota - The NBA Development League's Sioux Falls Skyforce has named its new head coach.

No. 3 TCU visits Texas Tech for what seems the most likely spot for a top-10 team to take a loss this week. The Red Raiders (3-0) are off to a nice start under third-year coach Kliff Kingsbury and coming off a payback victory against Arkansas last week. The Red Raiders offense might be better suited to keep up with Trevone Boykin and the Horned Frogs this time around, but that defense is still very shaky. Tech is allowing 6.17 yards per play, tied for eighth in the 10-team Big 12 and about a yard... Читать дальше...

Fed's Bullard: 'Prudent' policy approach requires interest-rate hike

Warriors, come out to play! It’s been 36 years since the movie The Warriors premiered and inst[...]

HENGELO - Het is misschien wel de meest bijzondere sportaccommodatie die Hengelo rijk is: Indoor Golf Twente. Golfen op de baan van Hawai, maar dan wel vanuit een bedrijfshal op bedrijventerrein Westermaat.

Some of the legendary names in Bridge will be seen in action in the 42nd World Bridge Teams Championships, beginning here on Saturday.