Новости за 21.07.2016

HMP Reading is to open to the public for the first time for a major arts project celebrating the work of former inmate Oscar Wilde.

To make the Samsung SERIF TV look more at home in your home, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec smartly bucked the industry trend toward ever slimmer displays.

A man arrested over the double murder of a couple is to be charged after being extradited from Luxembourg.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. government is suing to stop two major health insurance mergers, a move regulators say is needed to protect Americans from potential cost hikes and lower quality care. The Department of Justice said Thursday that the combinations of Aetna and Humana and Anthem and Cigna would hurt competition that restrains the

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De Europese aandelenmarkten zijn donderdag zonder grote koersuitslagen de handel uitgegaan. De ogen waren vooral gericht op het rentebesluit van de Europese Centrale Bank (ECB) en de toelichting daarop van president Mario Draghi. Die slaagde er met zijn boodschap evenwel niet in beleggers te inspireren.

For 50 years, Gene Roddenberry’s “Star Trek” has been doing two things: enthralling audiences around the world with a vision of a future in which humanity has put aside its petty differences, and taking to the cosmos to show how that future is possible only through diversity.

SEOUL, July 21 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean civic group on Thursday said it has kicked off a new campaign to promote the global awareness of the country's easternmost islets of Dokdo, which lie in the East Sea. The nongovernmental organization Volunt

An All Party Meeting called to discuss the unrest in Kashmir Valley on Thursday favoured "inclusive engagement of all the stakeholders" to carry forward the process of peace and reconciliation in Jammu and Kashmir.

I spent a day and a half walking from one end of Manhattan to the other on what I've termed a Hamil-thon. I was trying to catch a glimpse of perhaps the world's first consummate New Yorker: the real Alexander Hamilton, the one who didn't sing in a musical.

How cruel they were, forcing the poor woman against her will to participate in a government that cut the top tax rate, and trebled tuition fees, and introduced the bedroom tax, all while deciding not to fund jobs for unemployed young people using some of the money from bankers' bonuses

A girl must visit the Hall of Faces when at San Diego Comic-Con.

Percentage of single people among England’s first-time homebuyers has halved in the past 20 years

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island is buying 590 new electronic voting machines that will be used for the fall elections.

Ted Cruz refused to endorse GOP nominee Donald Trump during his convention speech

If anyone's going to make a Hawaiian shirt look cool, it's Diane Kruger. The trendsetter's known for making unexpected style moves—clearly, this moment is no...

An important Buddhist rite, the Kalachakra, began in TIbet on Thursday, for the first time since it happened 50 years ago.

The European Parliament is set to take on the Commission over plans to impose penalties on Spain and Portugal over their failure to bring down their deficits, in a move that challenges Brussels' right to impose penalties on sovereign states.

More Trump backers feel like they are falling behind financially than Clinton supporters, according to a recent Pew survey.

The Spain international returns to the club having spent the past two years at Juventus, following Real's decision to trigger his buy-back clause

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish basketball federation says that center Marc Gasol will miss the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after failing to recover from a broken foot in time.

The question I find interesting, in the wake of Ted Cruz's headline-making refusal to endorse Trump as a major speaker at "Trump's Convention," is just what Cruz's strategy here is. Here are the elements with which I'd begin in the search for an answer:

1) Cruz is a very smart guy, easily the smartest (it would seem) among the Republican face-cards;

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