Новости за 19.02.2016

Ben Hooper
MELBOURNE, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A man testing out his body camera at a Victoria, Australia, beach captured video of a suspected meteor falling to earth nearby.

Sepsis. Agonizing pain. Emotional trauma. Unnecessary surgery. This is what can happen to pregnant women who are having a miscarriage and get sent to a Catholic hospital that refuses to induce labor because of strict anti-abortion directives from the church.

Experts are wondering what's behind the burgeoning military relationship between Turkey and Qatar following the announcement on the construction of two military bases in each other’s territories. Some suggest that for Turkey, it is a pretext to justify the future deployment of its troops in the Persian Gulf, but what does Qatar get in return?

Tens of thousands of European passports that were reported as either lost or stolen often end up in the hands of terrorists or criminals, according to the Danish newspaper Berlingske.

The 10 largest U.S. hedge funds have made the most of the slide in the oil price, snapping up $1.5 billion in cheap energy stocks.

The Cleveland Fed chief said she expects the U.S. central bank to continue on a "gradual" pace of rate increases.

LEAD, S.D. (AP) — The Lead-Deadwood School District is taking a close look at the future of its busing program. The Black Hills Pioneer reports (http://bit.ly/1WvMxLR ) that the district has an aging group of bus drivers and a shrinking pool of qualified candidates to replace them. Superintendent Dan Leikvold says the district likely will consider contracting out for drivers, buses, or both. A task force that is being formed also will study bus routes. About 300 students in the district ride buses. Читать дальше...

A Pennsylvania family is mourning the loss of their daughter after she died of a genetic syndrome that also took the lives of her brother and sister.

Oil and gas producer Saratoga Resources wants to avoid a "calamitous" end to its restructuring, investors are clamoring for energy shares, and Kmart plans to sell merchandise of bankrupt retailers.

Need to catch up on what happened this week before that big dinner party? From the State of the Nation debat, student protests and a mystery body on plane, we round up some of the big stories - local and international - that made the news...

Delhi health minister Satyendra Jain on Friday said that the government will add 10,000 beds in its hospitals by 2017, among a slew of other facilities including free insurance for people.

Susanne Schmeidl

Security,

Afghanistan is not well, and perhaps what Iraq tells us is that things could get worse.

Those of us watching Afghanistan were not surprised at the findings of the most recent annual report by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in cooperation with the UN Human Rights Office on the "Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict."

Overshadowed by the violence in Syria, news from Afghanistan rarely makes headlines unless it is a reminder of the dire situation there. Читать дальше...

Clandestine meetings promoting regime change in SA are being held regularly at the United States embassy, the ANC's Gwede Mantashe said.

A Cameroon governor says two suicide bombers hit a market in the north Cameroon village of Meme, killing at least 20 people, and two others targeted a school in a nearby town.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister said that opposition forces as well as Syrian President Bashar Assad should follow advice on how to settle the Syrian conflict.

According to intelligence agencies, JeM has a plan to recruit retired Pakistani army officers to conduct lethal attacks in India.

(AP) — A school bus driver has been placed on administrative leave after a 70-year-old woman was struck and killed in south-central Pennsylvania. Shawn McGlinchey, a safety official for the Krapf Bus Co., says the driver has a "very clean driving record" and is being counseled to deal with the crash.

Why does Deadpool work when the super hero genre is littered with more undigestible matter than your cat's litter box? Is it an exercise in bad taste as some critics have complained? Is it the unfathomable attraction of the car wreck that others would have us detour? Or is it a clever re-framing of comic action to appeal to a wider, perhaps even more discerning audience?

Despite the naysayers, Deadpool is neither confusing, nor basically much different from the more milled product crowding multiplexes. Читать дальше...