Новости за 17.04.2018

Four brainy baboons made a desperate bid for freedom from a Texas medical research center, using a 55-gallon barrel to bust out of the joint. The primates outsmarted their human caretakers Saturday by rolling the barrel upright against the wall of their open-air enclosure at Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio, officials said.  They...

A Frenchman who underwent a face transplant in 2010 received a second one after his body rejected the first –making him the only person in the world to undergo the identity-altering surgery, twice. “I feel very well in myself,” Jerome Hamon told reporters last week as he continues to recover from the Jan. 15 and...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor broke a shoulder after taking a spill in her Washington, DC, home Monday – but won’t miss any time on the bench, a court spokeswoman said Tuesday. “She will wear a sling for several weeks and will undergo physical therapy,” spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said in a statement. “Justice Sotomayor plans...

The Jets are getting one last look at two of the top quarterbacks in next week’s draft. Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen is visiting the team’s Florham Park headquarters on Tuesday, according to a source. USC quarterback Sam Darnold will arrive Tuesday night and visit the team’s training center on Wednesday, a source confirmed. Wednesday is...

An asteroid the size of a football field buzzed by Earth Sunday in one of the closest encounters the planet has seen in a while. At its closest point, the asteroid – called 2018 GE3 – was just 119,500 miles away from Earth’s atmosphere, about half the distance between Earth and the moon, according to...

Millennials are taking over your office. More than one in three (35 percent) working Americans are millennials, eclipsing other generations in the labor force, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of US Census Bureau data. The organization defines millennials as the generation aged 21 to 36 in 2017. In 2017, 56 million millennials were...

The South Korean was kidnapped by North Korean agents in the 1970s and forced to make propaganda flicks before a daring escape.

A week-long road trip along China's side of its border with North Korea revealed stark contrasts between the two countries.

Producer Scott Rudin has fired back at the estate of author Harper Lee.

A multistate E. coli outbreak has sent at least 22 people to the hospital prompting health officials to advise consumers across the country to throw out any store-bought chopped romaine lettuce, including prepackaged salads and salad mixes. The outbreak has been traced to the Yuma, Ariz., growing region, but it is not yet pinned to...

A University of Portland tennis player has been kicked off the team after a sexually suggestive, misogynistic speech in which he detailed his collegiate quest to “get white women to sleep with brown men,” according to a report. Goutham Sundaram, a senior from Portland, was hosting the university’s fifth annual Wally Awards — a year-end...

Cheating is as old as time itself if the discovery of a mysterious 600-year-old dodgy dice is anything to go by. The highly unusual wooden dice was found during excavations in the Norwegian city of Bergen. Featuring “two fives” and “two fours,” archaeologists believe that the dice was used to cheat in games. Experts from...

Jurors were also allowed to hear his admissions that he'd used the sedative with at least one woman before sex.

John Amirante, the longtime Rangers singer of the national anthem, died Tuesday morning, the team announced. He was 83. “Our thoughts are with his wife Ann, his children and the entire Amirante family,” the Rangers said in a statement. “We will forever remember and miss John @TheGarden.” Amirante was a fixture at Madison Square Garden...

The “technology of the future” is constantly changing. Remember when Google Glass was the future and venture capitalists launched huge funds dedicated to financial Glass app developers? Remember when chatbots were the future and every tech company on the planet burned time and money developing Facebook Messenger bots? Yeah, most “technologies of the future” end...

Buying “likes” on Facebook was banned this week by Egypt’s top mufti, who said the practice is a form of fraud and deceit. The Islamic leader, Grand Mufti Shawki Allam, regularly issues religious decrees — called fatwas — usually in response to questions by Muslims looking for guidance. In a post on Facebook earlier this...

The actress, 43, is expected to give birth to a boy in the coming weeks.

Rachel Platten said her “mind just went blank” when she began belting out the lyrics to the national anthem over the weekend, causing her to restart “The Star-Spangled Banner” twice before being able to power through the song. In an interview with People, Platten said she felt “really embarrassed” after her flubbed performance at Saturday’s...

The clock is ticking down for Toys “R” Us gift cards. The bankrupt chain will accept the cards only through April 21 — although some shoppers have had their gift cards turned away recently, according to court filings. Customers said they were told of “computer glitches” when visiting soon-to-be-shuttered locations and that they couldn’t use...

After striking out on Peyton Manning for “Monday Night Football,” ESPN has considered big names, like Brett Favre, and not as big, like Booger McFarland, while holding auditions as if it were “American Idol.” Favre recently came in for one of the auditions, according to sources. Though it was unclear if Favre would even want...

Nick Mangold, one of the greatest players in Jets history, announced his retirement Tuesday on Twitter. Mangold spent 11 seasons with the Jets before they released him in February 2017. He made seven Pro Bowls and was twice named first-team All-Pro. Mangold, 34, did not play last season. He will sign a one-day contract with...

Gov. Cuomo’s popularity has taken a hit but he still holds a comfortable lead over Democratic Party rival Cynthia Nixon, according to a poll released Tuesday. Nixon has gained ground since announcing her bid for governor last month, the Siena College survey found. Cuomo’s favorability rating is now 49 percent positive and 44 percent negative...

More than 40 "Star Trek" actors appear in the spoof.

“It was a big stage 2 be on after everything I went thru," Odom shared on Twitter.

Danielle Bregoli, who rose to fame as a problem child-turned-meme on "Dr. Phil," previously turned down a reality show in 2017 to focus on her music.