Новости за 13.10.2015

King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, the king of the Thembu people, says his prosecution for terrorising his subjects was a political ploy cooked up by Nelson Mandela who had designs on his throne

The capital reported the second death due to swine flu this year with a 60-year-old woman succumbing to the H1N1 virus at a hospital while undergoing treatment.

According to one marketing expert, Playboy's rebranding strategy will require it to "spin straw into gold."

Some of the world's top players gathered for the most lucrative ever chess competition as organisers seek to make the game into a popular television spectacle

Since visitors were already stopping at farms to select pumpkins for Halloween, the group decided to tap into that bounty. Events at the festival include a costume contest, the Great Pumpkin Parade — complete with tractors, floats and classic cars — and a pumpkin pie eating contest. Strolling along Main Street, visitors can watch farmer and pumpkin carver Mike Valladao sculpt pumpkins into whimsical characters, and listen to live music on four stages by a variety of bands, including folk group Jim Stevens & Friends. Читать дальше...

In a move to make a deeper connect with the rural youth ahead of UP assembly polls due in 2017, the Akhilesh Yadav government has decided to set up sports stadiums in villages of Uttar Pradesh.

Donald Trump draws support from voters who see him as a "straight talking guy". But only a fraction of what he says is actually true, a study finds

Wolves have been hunted to extinction across much of Europe but it seems where they have been thriving, their growing numbers may be causing problems.

Harrison Burton will drive for Jeff Burton Autosports.

Tell Us all of your pregnancy confessions, Chrissy Teigen! The supermodel, who announced on Monday, [...]

A day after Supreme Court asked Centre to clear its stand on Uniform Civil Code, Gorakhpur MP Mahant Yogi Adityanath said time had come for the Union government to initiate a process.

Delhi Development Authority has launched a mobile application to keep a check on encroachment.

Anheuser-Busch InBev's pending takeover of SABMiller creates a continent-spanning beer kingdom on which the sun will never set. But the corporate pairing of the beer world's No. 1 and No. 2 takes place at a time when established brewing companies face serious challenges.

Ben Hooper
PARIS, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Lodging website Airbnb announced a contest to win a spooky Halloween stay with six million deceased roomies in the Catacombs of Paris.

Choreographer Risa Jaroslow’s 2006 “Resist/Surrender,” which has its West Coast premiere at the ODC Theater this weekend, examines maleness and male power in a kaleidoscope of ways. The cast includes a handful of dancers — Patrick Barnes, Kelly Del Rosario, Elise Knudson and Scott Marlowe — as well as 10 men from other professions, including an architect, a psychiatrist, a high school teacher, an IT specialist. Other voices — firefighters, corporate lawyers, gay teens, counselors — also emerge in Scott Johnson’s score... Читать дальше...

Wade Sheridan
GLENDALE, Calif., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Undefeated UFC superstar Ronda Rousey has confirmed that she is dating fellow UFC fighter Travis Browne.

Pakistan on Tuesday executed nine convicts, including four brothers, in the latest hangings since it lifted a moratorium on death penalty last year following the Peshawar carnage.

The state government may have moved Centre to impose ban on China-made kite strings, but city kids prefer only those. A case in point is of 14-year-old Mohammad Sahil who buys bundles of colorful string for flying kites. Known for its distinct quality he chose Chinese manjha (string) that can easily cut strings of other kites in sky, yet remain strong. He is a successful flyer but whenever the string touches electricity wires, the kid gets a shock.

NEW YORK, Oct. 13 (Yonhap) -- A Korean-American Harvard University student said Tuesday he challenged Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump because he wanted to make it known that Trump has made wrong accusations about defense relations bet

Politicians’ fundraising appeals can become the same old song and dance. For former Maryland governor and Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley, his latest fundraising appeal was just that: a song, hold the dance.

Vine superstars Chris Melberger and Shan Dude love trolling and making fun of society's more ridiculous trends. They also perhaps might be in love with each other?

Annie Martin
NEW YORK, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" will air an upcoming episode inspired by the Duggar family and eldest son Josh Duggar's controversies.

Earlier, Naidu launched ‘Mana Matti, Mana Neeru’ (our soil, our water) campaign in his native Naravaripalle in Chandragiri mandal of Chittoor district.

A 25-year-old female ended her life at Ashok Vihar colony in Alamnagar area on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday. Daughter of a grocery store owner, Shipra had dinner on Monday night with family members and left to retire in her room. In the morning her body was found suspended from an iron grill. A suicide note in which Shipra claimed responsibility for her act was recovered from the room.