Новости за 08.04.2017

Democrats join Republicans in backing military action, but many demand the president spell out a broader strategy.

The United States appears to be raising the stakes in Syria, suggesting Russia may have helped the Assad regime carry out a deadly chemical weapons attack that killed more than 80 people in Idlib province. A day after firing 59 Tomahawk missiles at Syria’s Shayrat Airfield, the launching point for the chemical weapons strike, senior American military officials said they were looking at evidence that the Syrian regime did not act alone. “We think we have a good picture of who supported them,”... Читать дальше...

A Melbourne man is behind bars over allegations he deliberately hit a woman with his car outside a shopping centre.

For the first time in a while, Mama June wasn't the only stealing the scenes on her hit reality show. During tonight's finale of Mama June: From Not to Hot, the 37-year-old made...

NEW YORK (AP) - Zack Wheeler lasted just four innings in his return from Tommy John surgery, giving up Derek Dietrich's go-ahead, two-run triple and Christian Yelich's two-run homer in the New York Mets' 7-2 loss to the Miami Marlins on Friday night.

US investigators have accused Google of short-changing female employees who do similar work to men.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has cast doubt on whether Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad can be part of a peaceful solution to the six-year civil war.

A team of astronomers says they’ve caught wind of an atmosphere around a super-Earth known as GJ 1132b, just 39 light-years away. The findings, described in the Astronomical Journal, mark another step on the road to determining whether alien worlds near and far might be capable of hosting life.

Bee stings injured three people and killed a dog Friday evening in the south valley ...

TORONTO (AP) — DeMar DeRozan scored 38 points and the Toronto Raptors beat the Miami Heat 96-94 on Friday night in their final home game of the regular season.

TORONTO (AP) — DeMar DeRozan scored 38 points and the Toronto Raptors beat the Miami Heat 96-94 on Friday night in their final home game of the regular season.

TORONTO (AP) — DeMar DeRozan scored 38 points and the Toronto Raptors beat the Miami Heat 96-94 on Friday night in their final home game of the regular season.

GARY Ablett’s manager Liam Pickering has slammed the media scrutiny surrounding his star client, labelling the coverage “disgusting”.

A black employee of the United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund says her boss promoted less-qualified white men over her. Stephanie D. Howell was “treated less favorably than similarly situated employees because of her African-American race,” according to her Manhattan Supreme Court suit. Howell, a $70,000-a-year executive assistant, was passed over for multiple promotions in...

Now they have to scoreboard watch on Saturday.

Jackson Browne made his speech inducting Joan Baez into the Rock Hall of Fame deeply personal.

"Elected representatives should provide reasonably regular opportunities for their constituents to rip the piss out of the way they eat."

De historische droogte in Californië, die vijf jaar duurde, is voorbij. Dat heeft de gouverneur van de staat, Jerry Brown, gisteren officieel

HONOLULU (AP) — A couple whose child was seriously injured while attending a home day care is asking state Attorney General Doug Chin to investigate the case, saying the initial investigation by the Honolulu Police Department was poorly done. Honolulu Police Department spokeswoman Michelle Yu said Friday that police turned the case over to the state attorney general.

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APRIL 7, 2017 —Just weeks after a high court in the Indian state of Uttarakhand granted legal personhood to the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, the same court recently extended that same standing to the Gangotri and Yamunotri glaciers that feed them. 

The finding follows New Zealand’s mid-March passage of a law recognizing the Whanganui River – a feature that the Maori people consider an ancestor – as a living entity. And the Indian court’s effort to protect... Читать дальше...

Mark E. Green, shown in 2013, is President Trump’s nominee to become secretary of the Army.

Chinese President Xi Jinping made his invitation at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Shocked residents of Sweden are wondering 'how things like this could this happen in a peaceful country?' after a truck attack in Stockholm that killed four people. Yet security experts point to radicalized Swedes linked to terror elsewhere.

TORONTO — DeMar DeRozan scored 38 points and the Toronto Raptors beat the Miami Heat 96-94 on Friday night in their final home game of the regular season. DeRozan broke Vince Carter’s franchise record with his 31st 30-point game of the season, shooting 14 of 32 from the floor. Carter set the mark in 2000-01.