Новости за 10.12.2015

By now, you've no doubt heard of the term "bitcoin." If you understand what bitcoins are and how they work, you're probably a very smart person and also a dirty liar because no, you don't. No one does.

Even as scathing 'Amma sticker' memes and messages of volunteers being waylaid by AIADMK workers swell in social media, lack of strong action seems to have emboldened the goons.

Een groep Amerikaanse moslims heeft bijna 180.000 dollar ingezameld voor de nabestaanden van de slachtoffers van de schietpartij in San Bernardino. Het campagnedoel van 175.000 dollar (160.000 euro) is daarmee gehaald.

It has been a sensational start to a much anticipated career for 23-year-old Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant. The Las Vegas native earned National League Rookie of the Year honors after amassing a .275 batting average to go along with 26 home runs and 99 RBI, both tops among all rookies. The Cubs meanwhile, made a trip to the NLCS for the first time since 2003.

Warsaw officials say British PM gave up on centrepiece of his EU renegotiation

BEIJING -- Li Xue owes her existence to a potato-peeling accident. Her mother was skinning spuds 22 years ago when the knife slipped and opened a deep cut on her thigh. The resulting infection got so bad that Li's mother says doctors told her she'd be risking her life if she went through with the abortion she had planned. 

Retail sales are expected to rise 0.2% in November, another so-so report that shows consumers are being conservative in face of economic and political pressures.

The striker reiterated that he has a great relationship with both his team-mates and his manager, and backs the latter to turn the Blues' season around

AICTE is likely to be releasing the mock test by December 12.

The Force won't be the only thing awakened when the new "Star Wars" movie opens next Thursday evening. Bleary-eyed movie theater employees will be ripping tickets through the night, as cinema chains add around-the-clock showtimes to cash in on the unprecedented demand.

From an enchanted forest cinema, to Ai Weiwei's art, Christmas fairs and lantern parades

From an enchanted forest cinema, to Ai Weiwei's art, Christmas fairs and lantern parades

These, dear friends, are the highlights of the last week's superhero movie news.

These, dear friends, are the highlights of the last week's superhero movie news.

Here's a friendly reminder for anyone who finds themselves gaping at someone who may be physically different from what's considered the "societal norm": Don't.

Sofiya Cheyenne knows something about getting stares. She was born with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a type of dwarfism that affects the cartilage in between her joints. At an inch over four feet, Cheyenne says she gets many invasive looks from strangers as she goes about her day. One super rude... Читать дальше...

It is the anxiety of not being able to preserve one's own being which underlies every fear and is the frightening element in it. In the moment, therefore, in which 'naked anxiety' lays hold of the mind, the previous objects of fear cease to be definite objects. They appear as what they always were in part, symptoms of man's basic anxiety. As such they are beyond the reach of even the most courageous attack upon them.
-Paul Tillich, 1952

Over the last week (and really for much longer)... Читать дальше...

Ben Affleck was seen on the set of his new movie Live by Night earlier this week and his costume, a hospital robe, flew open to reveal a gigantic back tattoo! The 43-year-old actor and director’s new tat appears to be a huge colorful phoenix, and sources tell Us Weekly that the ink is real [...]

A Syrian scientist who shared his devastating personal story on the popular blog Humans of New York received a note of encouragement from one enthusiastic reader: President Barack Obama.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says the world is living with the “pain” of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that occurred during his time in office. But we must not become “incapacitated by it,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. Amanpour challenged him on the point. “Do you feel a sense of responsibility,” she […]

Donald Trump’s supporters are pissed off, fiercely loyal, and as surprising as the candidate himself. For almost five months, thousands of voters across the country — many of them disenchanted with the political establishment, fearful that their country is under attack, and desperate to find inspiration in the 2016 campaign — have fueled the Trump […]

A small airplane crashed along Interstate 29 near Council Bluffs, briefly forcing the freeway to close.

Nearly 20 years after his death, the famed mathematician Paul Erdős keeps on publishing, thanks to the conjectures he left behind and the friends who strive to prove them

It's not easy having the person you love do something that tells you they don't trust you anymore. Equally difficult is letting go of your denial of the problem, which in my case was that I was not trustworthy. This is where my history with PrEP begins.

We met in the spring of 2011, and it was love at first sight. I was in the darkest place in my life, and he was the brightest light I had ever seen. It only took a month to share "I love yous" and it was suddenly us against the world. I rode... Читать дальше...

I think we all know that no matter what you get the teen dream in your life, she's going to either bitch that you didn't get her the whole collection or pretend she cares more about what her boyfriend just posted on Snapchat. At least if you buy her one of the gifts below, you may have 10 minutes free of eye rolls and snarky comments...

Honest Beauty Everything Makeup Palette

If applying a smoky eye is part of your teenager's morning ritual, make things easy by giving her the Honest Beauty Everything Makeup Palette. Читать дальше...