Новости за 21.06.2019

Religious scholar Emily Johnson spoke to Observer about women’s contributions to the anti-feminist movement.

With a weight-to-power ratio superior to that of the Bugatti Chiron, Honda has built the world's most terrifying machine on four wheels.

NASA will launch two new missions to advance our understanding of the Sun and its dynamic effects on space weather, the US space agency said. One of the selected missions will study how the Sun drives particles and energy into the solar system and a second will study Earth's response, NASA said. The Sun generates a vast outpouring of solar particles known as the solar wind, which can create a dynamic system of radiation in space called space weather. Near Earth, where such particles interact with our planet's magnetic field... Читать дальше...

The post European Games Preview: British Judo stars set to shine in Minsk appeared first on British Judo.

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Southwest Airlines is introducing a credit card for small business owners aimed at enhanced travel rewards. Business Insider reported Thursday (June 20) that Southwest announced the Southwest Rapid Rewards Performance Business Card, offering small business users 80,000 Rapid Rewards points when they spend $5,000 in the first three months. The publication noted that those points […]

“Fact checkers need to move from ‘publish and pray’ to ‘publish and act.'” “The idea that fact checking can work by correcting the public’s inaccurate beliefs on a mass scale alone doesn’t stack up,” write representatives from Full Fact (U.K.), Africa Check (Africa), and Chequeado (Argentina), in a manifesto of sorts published Thursday to all...

It's unsettling to think an erratic amateur president, with a tenuous relationship with reality, has to play the role of restrained adult in the West Wing.

Iran gave two warnings before downing a US reconnaissance drone over the Gulf of Oman, the commander of the aerospace arm of the country's elite Revolutionary Guards said Friday. "Twice we... sent warnings," Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh told state television. Hajizadeh said that even pilotless drones, like the one shot down on Thursday, had systems to relay warnings and other communications to their operators thousands of kilometres (miles) away in the United States. "This aircraft possesses... Читать дальше...

While there were no mega-deals in the B2B startup funding realm this week, it was still a busy time for companies and investors, with many funders targeting companies operating in less common markets. In India, where investors have shied away from alternative nonbank financial companies as of late, one small business (SMB) lender managed to […]

Holding a Canadian passport means you can travel quite freely around the world, hopping from one country to the next without having to go through extensive visa processes or waiting periods. But just because our citizenship makes it easy to […]

Europe has a range of EU and state-wide initiatives to develop electronic invoicing standards in both the private and public sectors, with a few goals in mind. Standardizing the way companies issue electronic invoices further reduces reliance on paper, while, at the same time, more closely integrating vendor systems with buyer platforms to streamline the […]

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Protesters entered Hong Kong's Immigration Tower in Wan Chai on Friday afternoon (June 21). Video shows protesters staging a sit-in in the lobby of the government office, demanding Chief Executive Carrie Lam fully withdraw a contentious bill to allow extraditions to mainland China. Protesters can be heard shouting, "Withdraw! Withdraw!" in the video.

Only the Chinese now to OK $34.5bn slurp

With the EU tipped to approve IBM's $34bn slurp of Red Hat next week, the open-source software house started Q1 of fiscal '20 with double-digit hikes in sales and profit, though its top line fell short of analyst estimates.…

Biases are ever-present in consumer research. However, there are several of steps to take to remove obvious biases and end up with objective takeaways that yield tangible value in your marketing endeavors.

Police, firefighters and a veterinary clinic had to join forces this week to rescue a red squirrel that got its head stuck in a manhole cover in western Germany.

For the inaugural Swipe Right column, we explore just how the hell you're supposed to strike up a conversation with a complete stranger on Tinder.

The doors on a lift in a residential community in Southern China crashed open after a kung fu lover punched them. The CCTV footage, filmed in Changsha City in Hunan Province on June 1, shows a man performing some kung fu moves on one of his friends in an elevator. Then he can be seen stretching his arm toward and performing the one-inch punch on the elevator doors. According to reports, the doors were pushed out a bit after being punched by the man and hit the wall inside the shaft, causing the malfunction. Читать дальше...

Two Brits came to blows in a go-go bar in Thailand's 'sin city' Pattaya. The two men appeared to have been drinking, with one of them visibly unsteady as a male member of the bar staff put his arms around him and moved him away from the bar. The other combatant was also pulled away from the fight by onlookers. Onlooker Lewis Smith, also from the UK, said: ''They were both grown men and should have been acting better than that while they're in public. It's an embarrassment.'' Pattaya is well-known... Читать дальше...

A 40-year-old man was arrested in Goa Thursday for allegedly raping a minor girl. Imtiaz Hakim, the accused, allegedly raped the14- year-old girl in his car after offering her lift when she was on her way to tuition two months ago. Deputy Superintendent of Police (Porvorim) Edwin Colaco said the girl did not disclose the incident to anyone for a long time. "The accused tried to rape her again on Wednesday after which she told her mother about it. Her mother filed the complaint with Porvorim police," Colaco said. Читать дальше...

Editor’s note: The annual Mosaic Journalism Workshop for Bay Area high school students is a two-week intensive course in journalism. Based at San Jose State University’s Spartan Daily newsroom, Mosaic students report and photograph real stories under the guidance of professional journalists. Two days before the school year ended, teacher Aaron Calvert took his Summit […]

There was a nasty moment early on in my relationship with HMS when I thought me and Johan Nagel’s latest weren’t going to get on. In my first hour with the beta of this highly original turnless Hornblower-em-up I experienced five game-curtailing mutinies. Even on the lowest difficulty setting I couldn’t make progress. Baffled disbelief was […]

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The 37-year-old had announced his retirement from professional football as his club Arsenal lost the Europa League final against Chelsea.