Новости за 13.08.2016

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Lack of fire suppression is one problem with the M109A7 Paladin.

The U.S. Army in the coming years will build hundreds of new mobile howitzers, and largely, the project has been a success. Except there will be a problem if the self-propelled howitzers catch on fire.

The Paladin M109A7 PIM — the latest in America’s line of tracked artillery pieces — has an automated fire-suppression system known as an AFES. But during survivability tests... Читать дальше...

Pressure is on party to move up official start of leadership campaign to level the playing field

A petition to make a Harambe Pokémon has gone viral that it got almost 35,000 signatures just two days after it was launched. If the pace keeps up for this petition, can “Pokémon Sun and Moom” fans expect to see Harambe when the two RPGs arrive on the Nintendo 3DS this November?

Nationwide, 22 veterans commit suicide every day, according to a 2012 Department of Veterans Affairs Study. An additional active-duty service member takes his life daily, says Stop Soldier Suicide, the Raleigh-based organization the Army National Guard staff sergeant volunteers for.

"Wow. That's calamitous".

DETROIT (AP) — A classical pianist is performing as part of an effort to revitalize a park near the long-shuttered Michigan Central train depot that's one of Detroit's best-known eyesores.

Athleisure before athleisure even existed.

Los Angeles 1984 Games. Athleisure look by Levis.

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My personal thoughts on this look: I FUCKING LOVE IT. I want to live in it for the rest of my life. And are those suits…velour?? It was Juicy before Juicy. The only thing that could make this outfit any better is if the pants were jogger-style and not boot cut. But I guess you can’t get everything. Читать дальше...

Solo earned the wrath of Brazilians before she arrived for the Olympics. She didn't help her cause by calling Sweden's team 'cowards' after they knocked the Americans out of the tournament.

The team behind Netflix's docu-series Making a Murder is speaking out just hours after a massive update in Brendan Dassey's case was revealed. "Today was a major development...

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Megan Ellison, the 30-year-old daughter of billionaire Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison, has cut a distinctive path in the film industry since she founded Annapurna Pictures, an independent production company, in 2011. 

By financing hit films like "Zero Dark Thirty" and works by lauded directors like David O. Russell, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Spike Jonze, Ellison has earned a reputation as a producer who takes on the potentially great films that major studios won't touch. Читать дальше...

WOODBRIDGE, Va. (AP) — Francisco Mejia stepped out of the clubhouse and into the dugout with little fanfare. He did his usual turns in the batting cage, and the 5-foot-10, 175-pound catcher looked like just another 20-year-old in the minors.

WOODBRIDGE, Va. (AP) — Francisco Mejia stepped out of the clubhouse and into the dugout with little fanfare. He did his usual turns in the batting cage, and the 5-foot-10, 175-pound catcher looked like just another 20-year-old in the minors.

Residents of Gem Garden in Idikarai town panchayat were in for a bad surprise on Friday morning.

A German Olympic canoe coach is fighting for his life after a car accident left him with serious head injuries. Stefan Henze underwent emergency surgery in a Rio de Janeiro hospital. Another team official was slightly injured. Organizers say the Germans were heading back to the athletes village in a taxi.

A 41-year-old man was arrested on Thursday evening in connection with the death of a three-year-old female elephant calf, which on July 29 succumbed to injuries after a crude explosive went off in its mouth.

Donald Trump said he's going to "watch" voting in Pennsylvania.

A 36-year-old woman visiting a San Francisco park with her children suffered life-threatening injuries Friday afternoon when a large tree branch fell and hit her on the head in the North Beach neighborhood, fire officials said. The woman was inside Washington Square with her 5- and 6-year-old children at the time of the incident, said Lt. Jonathan Baxter, a San Francisco Fire Department spokesman. Crews estimate the tree limb weighed approximately 100 pounds and fell on the woman from a distance of about 50 feet, Baxter said.

NYPD Officer Kenneth Healey returned to where his life was saved, to honor everyone who treated him.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Mercury News of San Jose, California, apologized Friday for an insensitive headline about U.S. swimmer Simone Manuel.

A camp outside of Milwaukee aims to be a safe haven for children who have lost a parent because of war

HELOTES, Texas — A 7-month-old boy died Friday after being left all day in a hot sport utility vehicle in a San Antonio-area Wal-Mart parking lot. The child’s father is employed at the store in Helotes, a San Antonio suburb, and told officers that he forgot to drop the child off at day care before

The world is divided into those who would bone old-timey boxers, and those who would not.

Follow all the action as the Matildas take on the host nation in the quarter-finals.