Новости за 08.02.2019

First child of the late King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit is a gold medalist in SEA Games and an HIV-awareness advocate.

DEADLY SOCCER COMPLEX FIRE: The fire reportedly started in a dorm where youth soccer players sleep.

The Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers Association (AASA) has hired Megan Gardner as its new director of membership and sponsorship. She will be responsible for membership growth and retention, identifying member needs and potential new association services, and building relationships and relevance…

IT’S the kind of thing that would only happen in a parent’s nightmares. Having one child being diagnosed with a brain tumour is hard enough – let alone both in the course of a fortnight. But that’s what has happened to the Averys. Last May, six-year-old Kalea threw up one morning and her parents simply […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday inaugurated the new, fortress-like Berlin headquarters of Germany's scandal-plagued BND foreign intelligence service.

MUMBAI, India - The international reputation of India took another dive on Friday as news broke of the abduction, rape and murder of a 5-year old girl.

This year's Davis Cup and the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo are targets for 17-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal.

Finland's government today announced the first findings from a two-year basic income trial that ended a month ago, with researchers saying it failed to spur the unemployed to work more and earn more as was hoped.

The Sacramento Kings made another trade just before the NBA trade deadline Thursday, the team announced.

In the post shared on Reddit's ' Am I the A**hole?' forum, the woman explained that her 32-year-old husband used to ward off her sexual advances,

Skechers stock rocketed higher after giving strong profit guidance for the quarter ahead while reporting better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings Thursday evening.

River levels are forecast to peak at 22.1 feet, about 2.5 above the level that floods the wharf parking.

After years of troubling reports of serious human rights violations on the part of Cameroon’s security forces, the U.S. government has finally decided to cut military aid to the country. By all accounts, the violations were egregious: Targeted killings, torture, kidnapping, burning schools and villages, and more. And so it was with “shock” but also […]

From an S Club spin-off to a short-lived dating show...

People want to come to the US for its free enterprise system, he stated

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service reported total revenue of $19.7 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2019 (October 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018), an increase of $553 million, or 2.9 percent, compared to the same quarter last year.

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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2019
USC Dornsife chemists have found a cheaper way to light up smartphone and TV screens, which could save manufacturers and consumers money without affecting visual quality. Copper is the answer, according to their study, published Feb. 8 in the journal Science. "The current technology that is in every Samsung Galaxy phone, high-end Apple iPhone and LG TV relies on iridium compounds for

Washington DC (SPX) Feb 08, 2019
Scientists at the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and Yangzhou University (YZU) in Jiangsu have developed an effective and energy-efficient technique for purifying water by using graphitic carbon nitride sheets. Their prototype, presented February 7 in the journal Chem, purified pathogen-rich water in 30 min, killing over 99.9999% of bac

Atlanta GA (SPX) Feb 08, 2019
As part of their missions, federal agencies generate or collect massive volumes of data from such sources as earth-observing satellites, sensor networks and genomics research. Much of that information is useful to commercial and academic institutions, which now can usually access this publicly-generated data from agency servers at no charge. But as the volume of data continues to expand, m

Boston MA (SPX) Feb 08, 2019
Perovskites - a broad category of compounds that share a certain crystal structure - have attracted a great deal of attention as potential new solar-cell materials because of their low cost, flexibility, and relatively easy manufacturing process. But much remains unknown about the details of their structure and the effects of substituting different metals or other elements within the material.

Sendai, Japan (SPX) Feb 08, 2019
A research team led by Tohoku University in Japan has developed new materials for supercapacitors with higher voltage and better stability than other materials. Their research was recently published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science. Supercapacitors are rechargeable energy storage devices with a broad range of applications, from machinery to smart meters. They offer many ad