Новости за 04.03.2016

Do you hate it when friends call you and leave a voicemail when what they have to say could be easily sent as a text? Thanks to a new app, now you can force them to text you instead. Aptly named No More Voicemail, the iOS and Android app doesn’t really get rid of your

MOSCOW — A nanny accused of decapitating a 4-year-old girl and brandishing her head outside a Moscow subway station said during an apparent interrogation captured on video that the killing was an act of revenge against President Vladimir Putin for Russian air strikes in Syria. Asked about the video, which was released Thursday, Putin’s spokesman said it was difficult to judge the testimony of a woman he called “clearly deranged.” Russia has been carrying out air strikes in Syria for five months... Читать дальше...

Christopher Barber served nearly five years in a Pennsylvania prison in the 1990s for shaking his fussy baby boy and flinging him onto a couch so hard that he suffered catastrophic brain damage. [...] Barber is behind bars again, charged with homicide, following his son's death at age 23 after he lingered in a vegetative state the rest of his life, hooked to a breathing machine and fed through a tube. Prosecutors had him arrested after a pathologist ruled Christopher Kostenbader's death last May a homicide... Читать дальше...

The newly redesigned SAT college entrance exam that debuts nationally Saturday is getting good reviews from some of the students who took it early this week. The new exam focuses less on arcane vocabulary words and more on real-world learning and analysis by students. The College Board says more than 463,000 test-takers signed up to take the new SAT in March, up slightly from a year ago. Because the exam is new, the College Board, the nonprofit organization that owns the SAT, has restricted the... Читать дальше...

(AP) — The federal government is proposing to lift threatened-species protections for hundreds of Yellowstone-area grizzlies, opening the door to future hunts for the fearsome bears across parts of three states for the first time since the 1970s. Grizzlies are not protected in Alaska, where hunting has long been allowed. Since grizzlies in the Lower 48 were added to the endangered and threatened species list in 1975, the number in the Yellowstone region increased from 136 animals to an estimated 700 to 1,000 today... Читать дальше...

The state-run Anadolu Agency, without citing a source, said the women were identified as members of the banned far-left group, the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army-Front, or DHKP-C. Security camera footage showed the women firing at a police bus outside a riot police station in Istanbul’s Bayrampasa neighborhood and also hurling a hand grenade, before apparently taking aim at the police station. Special forces police quickly surrounded the building and launched an operation after the pair... Читать дальше...

Warriors point guard Stephen Curry probably could have won the award with a single indelible shot, but he was named the Western Conference Player of the Month on Thursday because he completely dominated in February. In leading the Warriors to a 9-1 record, Curry also averaged 7.3 assists and 5.6 rebounds while shooting 53.6 percent from three-point range.

DETROIT (AP) — Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio head into the 11th debate of the Republican presidential race Thursday in an ever-more urgent scramble to take down Donald Trump — with an ever-more nervous GOP establishment wishing them luck. [...] any number of predictions that GOP voters would coalesce around one anti-Trump as the field narrowed have come and gone without a change in the overall dynamic. Mitt Romney, the party's 2012 nominee, on Thursday made a rare public appearance to denounce Trump... Читать дальше...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Anyone worried that Republican Gov. Chris Christie was being held hostage by Donald Trump as he stood, seemingly shell-shocked, behind the GOP presidential front-runner on Super Tuesday can rest easy. Christie also said he won't heed calls from a handful of newspapers to resign and will continue helping Trump's campaign. Christie, who ended his own Republican presidential campaign last month, said he will continue helping Trump's campaign but doesn't have any more appearances scheduled. Читать дальше...

Upper Darby native Fey told "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon the scholarship is targeted toward veterans who attend Temple's media and communication school. Fey was on Fallon's show promoting "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot," a comic drama about war reporting starring Fey as a rookie correspondent finding her way.

Staffan de Mistura spoke as he convened a group monitoring the truce amid hopes of a breakthrough that could pave the way for regular humanitarian aid deliveries to remote and besieged areas that have been cut off by the fighting. The cease-fire is shaping up as the most promising initiative in years to help end a five-war that has killed at least 250,000 people, driven millions of Syrians to flee the country, and given an opening to militants such as the extremist Islamic State group and the Al-Nusra Front... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers and tourists got their first look inside a $3.9 billion transportation hub at the World Trade Center site on Thursday as officials opened one entrance to the cathedral-like pavilion. Rising costs have been blamed on factors including architect Santiago Calatrava's demands and the logistical complexity of building it while the Sept. 11 memorial and office towers were also under construction. Calatrava and his supporters say the facility will justify its price tag by taking... Читать дальше...