Новости за 04.04.2018

A woman living in the Indian state of Maharashtra was released Tuesday from a local hospital just days after fighting off a tiger with a stick.

The Austrian government announced Wednesday its plan to ban headscarves for girls in kindergartens and primary schools across the country under the “Children Protection Act.”

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States wants its allies in the region to step up their efforts in Syria, while its purpose is to transition to local enforcement in the country, White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a briefing on Wednesday.

A US Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashed outside of Las Vegas on Wednesday after taking off from Nellis Air Force Base.

Humanity has grown accustomed to autonomous cleaning robots since the Roomba’s debut in 2002. Now, we might have an upgrade: scientists have sent a prototype satellite equipped with a net and harpoon to the International Space Station to be tested. If successful, RemoveDEBRIS will lead to technology that will clean up Earth’s space junk for us.

Yemen's Houthi forces said that they launched a missile at Saudi Arabia after Saudi air defence reportedly destroyed missile above Jizan

France flagged more than 78,000 people as national security threats in 2017 in a database that allows European police to share information regarding Europe’s most dangerous locals.

American media mogul Sumner Redstone, who has voting control over CBS and Viacom companies, is now communicating with his subordinates through an iPad which plays audio clips of his voice saying "f*** you" among other short replies.

Physicists from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Crystallography & Phonetics Scientific Research Center have found a solution to the long-standing problem of 3D printers' low resolution and slow operation, creating special nanoparticles which form complex bonds with the help of ultraviolet beams driven by conventional infrared lasers.

If your smartphone slows down or if the battery runs low in too short a time, these may be signs of your mobile device being used by cybercriminals.

The Facebook tech giant stated that the information of about 87mln people, mostly in the United States, might have been improperly shared because of the Cambridge Analytica.

Herve Falcani, an IT expert at HSBC's Swiss bank, got access to customer files in late 2007 and leaked secret bank account documents, which revealed that HSBC's Swiss banking subsidiary helped its clients to dodge millions in taxes, conceal assets and obtain untraceable cash.

British military intervention in Russia in 1918-1919 was unlawful and indefensible, British government papers held by the National Archives reveal. It has turned Russian public attitudes towards Britain from friendly to hostile.

BRUSSELS (Sputnik) - The Estonian government's project to collect and study the DNA of 100,000 of its citizens may help better understand and counter rare diseases, although the ability to predict the onset of certain conditions may pose serious ethical questions, experts told Sputnik.

The emergence of the so-called petro-yuan may benefit both Beijing and Washington, Tom McGregor, a Beijing-based political analyst and CNTV Panview commentator, told Sputnik, adding that newly introduced Chinese oil futures have the potential to turn into a new global benchmark in the long run.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The ability of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to determine what substance was used to attack former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal depends on whether it could get its hands on the original substance rather than chemicals found in Skripal and his daughter, experts told Sputnik.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US Congress should hold hearings on a security threat to NATO and the US from efforts by Poland, Hungary, other Central European allies to weaken Western democratic standards, a group of 60 foreign policy pundits warned in a statement announced in a press release by the advocacy group Human Rights First on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump's pledge to pull US troops out of Syria appears to be hot air, said Dr. Bassam Abu Abdallah, director of the Center for Strategic Studies at Damascus University, adding that the US-led coalition's operation in Syria, and particularly Raqqa, resulted in the destruction of the region’s infrastructure.

The Russian embassy in the United Kingdom stated that the UK Foreign Office had refused to share with Russia the samples of the substance allegedly used for the Skripal's poisoning, along with the failure to respond Moscow's inquiries on his treatment.

A convoy of US military vehicles carrying combat personnel entered the oil-rich province of al-Hasakah in northeastern Syria this afternoon, after withdrawing from their positions in Raqqa province, according to Al Masdar News, citing reports from local activists.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US is fully confident in the United Kingdom's assessment of the poisoning of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, after the announcement by the UK government’s Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, a US Department of State official told Sputnik on Wednesday.

A British man was arrested and sentenced to jail after repeatedly hounding a woman online, bombarding her with dozens of text messages each day and posting videos of her on porn websites.

Rhino females are usually attentive and loving mothers to their calves, who are eager to care for their mothers as well, even despite the fact that a rhino calf is born without a horn.

UK Foreign Secretary has now been called out by Russian officials, British politicians and thousands of social media users on his misleading claim on the origin of the Novichok nerve agent in Sergei Skripal's poisoning. Boris Johnson, however, doesn't seem to mind. The best defense is a good offense - seems to be his thinking.

Uber had to withdraw from Denmark in April 2017 following the introduction of new taxi laws in the country, under which the company was unable to operate.