Новости за 16.10.2015

South Carolina will collect donations at its football game with Vanderbilt on Saturday for those affected by the massive flooding in much of the state.

The non-vehicular stretch in the city is reclaimed by residents from motorists at least for once a week for four hours to beat lethargic Sunday mornings

Azealia Banks' Twitter account has made headlines before, but this time, it's her music -- not a controversial statement -- making news: The 24-year-...

The United States and Russia have not reached any common point on the Syrian conflict resolution despite the achieved understanding on deconfliction in the country’s air space, US President Barack Obama stated on Friday.

Dortmund attempt to keep pace with Bayern with at the top of the Bundesliga after goals from Marco Reus and Henrik Mkhitaryan help BVB ease to a comfortable victory

Dow Jones servers were infiltrated by a group of Russian hackers looking for stock tips, according to a Friday report.

Suleiman Abdullah Salim says he listens to Bob Marley to help cope after undergoing what a new American Civil Liberties Lawsuit alleges were unlawful...

Hopes that the world’s tallest roller coaster would come to Orange County, Florida, hit a snag Thursday. The county planning and zoning commission denied a request to build a 500-foot roller coaster, WKMG-TV in Orlando reported.

Underwhelmed this week, we were not. That's because whenever Diane Kruger steps onto a red carpet, a Vogue-worthy look is guaranteed.  And that's exactly what went down at...

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NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Demi Lovato signed with Wilhelmina Models, the same agency that represents Nick Jonas, just one day prior to releasing her new album, "Confident."

NPR's Kelly McEvers and Audie Cornish read some listener comments about our coverage of the escalating violence in Jerusalem.

A man who has lived in the U.S. for three years is returning to Syria because his fiancé of four years has no chance of coming to the U.S.

Jeff Gordon's clean cut style helped NASCAR connect with a new generation of racing fans. Many are reflecting on how Gordon helped change the sport as he finishes his final season.

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Joseph and Kathleen Stafford, two of the Americans former Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor sheltered during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.

The eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is only two years old, and it's already requiring millions of dollars in repairs. The project, 10 years late and $5 billion over budget, is one of California's most expensive public works projects. Commuters are frustrated over cost overruns.

For the first time, Illinois football will have a Mandarin play-by-play and color team calling the game for streaming in China. The University of Illinois has a huge number of Chinese students, and the activity has been getting the community more involved in campus culture.

The Knick returns for its second season on Cinemax Friday night. And with it, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh seems to be making good on his vow to turn his back on the film world and work exclusively in TV. He also has a new show on Amazon called Red Oaks, a comedy set in the 1980s. NPR reviews both and says Soderbergh's success is enabling him to shift power in the TV business from writer/producers to director/producers, and that power shift has a lot of repercussions.

President Obama urged calm amid the recent Israeli-Palestinian violence at a press conference with the South Korean president. He said the U.S. and Russia are at strategic odds on Syria and declined to wade far into the 2016 presidential race.

Musician Patti Smith received a surprising gift Thursday. While at a reading of her new memoir, a fan stood up, holding a bag of items stolen from Smith over 30 years ago.

Possible embarrassment unlikely to take gloss off flurry of Sino-British cultural exchanges

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TIBURON, Calif., Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A numismatics firm confirmed a photo bought for $2 at a California antiques shop features Billy the Kid and could be worth up to $5 million.

WASHINGTON — Most women with low sexual desire won’t rush to get the first prescription drug to boost female libido when it becomes available on Saturday. Kim Wallen, a psychology professor at Emory University, says Addyi represents a milestone that may open the door to more drugs targeting desire in men and women. Where Viagra and other men’s erectile dysfunction drugs work by increasing blood flow to the genitals, Addyi acts on brain chemicals associated with desire. Analysts estimate the market could be worth over $2 billion... Читать дальше...

Since Jets wide receiver Chris Owusu lives on the East Coast and has a job, he didn’t get a chance to see it live. But it didn’t take long upon waking up to realize his little brother made one of the most amazing catches in football, the kind of video that went viral before he…

In May 2013, sandwiched amid anticipated heavyweights like New Yorker “20 Under 40” Philip Meyer’s “The Son,” best-selling Khaled Hosseini’s “And the Mountains Echoed” and Karen Joy Fowler’s Man Booker-shortlisted “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves,” a first novel by a relative newcomer (albeit an Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA graduate and a Wallace Stegner Fellow) appeared on the scene. By the time the year was over, the book — Anthony Marra’s impressive “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena” ... Читать дальше...