Новости за 28.08.2020

Meghan Markle met Prince William alone before being introduced to Kate Middleton, and they enjoyed a cuppa in the Cambridge family's kitchen away from all staff

The failure of some of the Project Birch talks has highlighted the fact that greening the manufacturing industry is anything but straightforward, says RSK’s Warren Percival. Every company now wants to say it’s working towards carbon net zero. But for the manufacturing sector that can seem an almost impossible challenge, despite the fact that private […]

August 28 – Manchester United star Paul Pogba has been left out of France’s squad for the upcoming Nations League games against Sweden and Croatia after testing positive for coronavirus.

The driver of a Land Rover involved in a crash on a busy dual carriageway has died in hospital.

In these unprecedented times for US sports, NBA players and owners found a familiar face as an intermediary: Michael Jordan.

Nineteen childcare services have notified authorities about confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the nine weeks since the sector reopened.

Apple has agreed to pay $9.75 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over charging issues with its Powerbeats2 wireless earphones (via Apple Insider). Launched in 2017, the suit focused on the advertised claims of durability, sweat-resistance and b...

Coronavirus: Sinovac's vaccine candidate approved for emergency use in China

1. Flooding and destruction caused by Hurricane Laura  Reuters
2. Hurricane Laura brings tornado threat after Louisiana landfall, Lake Charles 'severely damaged'  Fox News
3. Tropical Storm Laura batters Louisiana: Live updates  CNN
4. I've covered Louisiana's storms for years. Hurricane Laura makes 2020 almost seem normal.  USA TODAY
5. Hurricane Laura Topples Confederate Statue That Survived Protests  The New York Times
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Dorjan Cera, 20, had no licence when his car sped over a junction and struck a single-decker bus.

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We like to say that American conservatism is a three-legged stool. The “legs” are the three dominant factions in the Republican Party: social traditionalists, economic libertarians, and foreign policy interventionists. Conventional wisdom holds that the Right is only stable if all three legs are balanced. Yet, over the last half-century, the only “leg” that has […]

For all its wild moments, this year’s convention relied on some textbook moves.

The likes of AC Milan and Manchester United were also chasing the England Under-18s star, but Marcelo Bielsa has got his man.

EMMERDALE fans will see Marlon Dingle turn nasty in a bid to get rid of Al Chapman once and for all.

KUALA LUMPUR: Amanah Saham Nasional Bhd (ASNB) has announced a total income distribution payout of RM907.3 million for its fixed price fund Amanah Saham Malaysia 2 - Wawasan (ASM 2 Wawasan).

An American warship sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, the US Navy has said, challenging Beijing's claims on the resource-rich waterway and prompting a warning from the Chinese military. The Thursday operation came a day after China fired ballistic missiles into the sea as part of ongoing live-fire exercises, inflaming already high tensions between Washington and Beijing. The US regularly conduct "freedom of navigation operations" in the area to challenge Chinese territorial claims. Читать дальше...

The market is cancelled, and elsewhere in Aberdeenshire a question mark hangs over the Stonehaven fireballs event.

The airport says it will take four to five years for air traffic to return to pre-pandemic levels.

Kyle Rittenhouse, the demented white teenager affiliated with right-wing militia and thanked for his service by local police, shot two protesters dead in the streets of Kenosha with an AR-15 and then walked right past Kenosha County police with his weapon around his shoulders. The nation is saturated with deadly assault weapons at the behest of the neofascistic National Rifle Association. Psychotics and sociopaths regularly gain access to weapons of mass destruction like AR-15s in the “armed madhouse” that is contemporary America. Читать дальше...

Kazatomprom , the world's No. 1 uranium miner, has started buying the metal on the spot market and may purchase more this year to replenish its stock after the coronavirus pandemic upended the global market, it said on Thursday. Supply disruptions have accelerated the rebalancing of the nuclear fuel market, pushing up the spot price and prompting greater interest in medium- and long-term contracts, Kazatomprom executives said. "The theme of uncertainty in the uranium market persisted through the... Читать дальше...

Popular play areas are due to be given major overhauls - with one set to nearly double in size.

SPOTS plague us all every now and then and they always sneak their way onto our faces right before a big event. Here's how to get rid of spots fast.