Новости за 15.07.2015

The creation of artificial human hearts has never been closer to reality, after researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, together with their colleagues at the Gladstone Institutes, invented a system similar to that which keeps our blood flowing, which can make pregnancies much safer in future. Scientists have successfully grown beating cardiac tissue from […]

By Parisa Hafezi, Louis Charbonneau, John Irish and Arshad Mohammed

By Parisa Hafezi, Louis Charbonneau, John Irish and Arshad Mohammed

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got humanity's first up-close look at Pluto on Tuesday, sending word of its triumph across 3 billion miles to scientists waiting breathlessly back home.

With her step-grandparents dead or dying in the burning wreckage of their small plane, 16-year-old Autumn Veatch needed to somehow find her way off the remote, thickly forested Washington state mountainside where they...

Shanghai stocks lost ground on Wednesday despite China's better-than-expected economic growth in the second quarter, with investors still wary after a big slide in Chinese markets. Other Asian benchmarks gained.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faced a revolt in his left-wing party and workers' calls for strikes ahead of Wednesday's Parliament vote on a bailout deal meant to prevent the country's economy from...

A New Jersey man convicted of drug charges in May will spend years in prison.

Hearings involving lawsuits between Centre County government and courthouse officials originally set for Tuesday have been rescheduled for September.

The Bryce Jordan Center will be getting a new person at the helm.

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Lifting of UN sanctions against Iran, as stipulated in the nuclear deal between Tehran and international mediators, will result in global oil prices drop due to increased supply, Igor Hernandez from Institute of Higher Management Studies of Caracas told Sputnik. On Tuesday, Iran and the P5+1 group of countries — China, France, Russia, the United […]

Jesse Eisenberg said that he was using hyperbole when he compared the Comic-Con experience to "genocide" late Tuesday afternoon.

Mike Trout flashed the skill that puts him at the front of baseball's new generation, just moments after four of the all-time greats had just walked off the field.

A dilapidated food processing plant built in the 19th century on the banks of the Uruguay River to process and export meat to Europe may seem an unlikely candidate for status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

An Australian woman was deported from the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday after being arrested and fined for “insulting” social media posts, according to a judicial source in Abu Dhabi. Jodi Magi, 39, appeared in an Abu Dhabi court and was taken into custody on July 12 before being placed on a flight to Bangkok […]

BEIJING, July 15 (Reuters) - China's implied oil demand grew 3.5 percent in June, as rising air travel and vehicle usage boosted fuel consumption, but a drop in passenger car sales amid a recent stock market rout could limit demand growth over the next few months.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Legislation for a dramatic change in Japan's defence policy that could allow troops to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two was approved by a lower house panel on Wednesday, despite opposition from a majority of ordinary voters.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Venture-backed lender ZestFinance is raising its standards: its latest product targets subprime borrowers.

Here are the latest developments from the MLB All-Star Game on Tuesday, the summer showcase where stars from the American League and National League compete for home-field advantage in the World Series (all times local):

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the most wanted of Mexico's drug lords, would have breezed along the mile-long tunnel dug just for him on a specially modified motorcycle or one of the two carts it pushed on two steel rails.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 15 (Reuters) - Venture-backed lender ZestFinance is raising its standards: its latest product targets subprime borrowers.

President Benigno Aquino III delivered a speech during the Army Change of Command Ceremony, which he said was the last change of command ceremony he would be attending to before he steps down as president in 2016. He delivered his speech today, July 15, at the Fort Bonifacio in Taguig. During the ceremony, Maj. Gen.  Eduardo […]

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

On Jan. 25, 1984, some six weeks after the Chesapeake Bay Agreement was signed, President Ronald Reagan drew a standing ovation in his State of the Union address with these…

A little more than a year ago, President Obama asked Congress for $500 million to train and equip some 15,000 opposition fighters in Syria, arguing that the best way to…