Новости за 19.02.2016

Electro-convulsive therapy, otherwise known as ECT is used to treat people with severe depression by sending an electric current through the brain to trigger an epileptic fit.

Marilyn Manson has long used David Bowie’s “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)” to warm up his vocals before he hits the stage. So when...

A swiftly drafted North Korean sanctions measure passed by members of both the US House and Senate was signed into law Thursday by President Barack...

Doug G. Ware
MIAMI, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A suspected 'hacktivist' aligned with Anonymous, who's been wanted by the FBI, was captured this week after he was rescued at sea near Cuba, authorities said.

Privacy advocates are planning rallies at Apple Inc. stores across the U.S., hoping to convert a social media outcry over a battle for security and individual rights into actual action.

 – President Robert Mugabe will turn 92-year-old on Sunday – There is conflict in the ruling party over Mugabe’s continued stay in office Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, who will be turning 92-year-old on Sunday, had continued to cling to power, Straits Times reports. The president who is Africa’s oldest leader and the only president Zimbabweans […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo hopes to ramp up Tumblr's revenue by rolling out new ad products for the social network later this year, the company said Thursday. The new ad products will be sold by a revamped Tumblr sales team that will be shared with Polyvore, another social media company purchased by Yahoo in 2015.

Montreal Board of Trade says it’s in the interest of all of Canada to ensure the company brings to term its C Series jetliner

Halle Berry stops by Crystalarium to check out the selection on Wednesday (February 17) in West Hollywood, Calif. The 49-year-old entertainer checkout of the crystal & quartz jewelry, a specialty of the shop! PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Halle Berry Halle has one movie coming up called Kidnap, and that is scheduled to [...]

For the past eight years, Sony Pictures Classics has enjoyed a comfortable relationship with Woody Allen, releasing all of the director's films since 2009's "Whatever Works." But with some surprising news coming today, it seems the filmmaker is ready to shake things up and go with some new blood. Amazon has picked up the North American rights to Allen's next film, shot last summer, starring Jeannie Berlin, Steve Carell, Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Parker Posey, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, and Ken Stott. Читать дальше...

The lawyer for Philadelphia 76ers rookie center Jahlil Okafor says his client will pay a $439 fine for driving his white Mercedes-Maybach 108 mph across the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in October.

New DNA analysis suggests that interbreeding began 100,000 years ago.

Two seats are up for election, but the April 5 ballot will list only one Onalaska School Board candidate after a ruling released this afternoon by Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board.

Arizona gets a bad rap when it comes to immigration reform, but a bill making its way through the state legislature is geared toward helping vulnerable undocumented people, not deporting them.

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin - Green Bay Packers running back Eddie Lacy has a new position coach, Ben Sirmans.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers running back Eddie Lacy has a new position coach, Ben Sirmans.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Head coach Steve Hansen has confirmed backrower Kieran Read will take over as All Blacks captain after the retirement of Richie McCaw.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Assembly began a push Thursday to get tougher on rogue drone use, passing a bill that would prohibit flying the machines over prisons and preparing to vote o…

The “ziki fly” mentioned was an incorrect reference to Zika, a mosquito-borne virus maybe linked to abnormally small heads in newborns.

CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel's promise to release videos of police shootings in no more than three months was touted as a way to bring more transparency to Chicago after the city took mor…

CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel's promise to release videos of police shootings in no more than three months was touted as a way to bring more transparency to Chicago after the city took more than a year to make public the footage of a teenager's death. Though most of the attention will be on dashcam videos, the policy also calls for the release of any video — public or private — collected by authorities during investigations, as well as audio recordings and police reports. "The 60 days is so the administration can get ahead of the story... Читать дальше...

Brazil's health authorities are using guppy fish, which eat mosquito larvae, to slow the spread of the Zika virus that is suspected of causing birth defects in thousands of babies. Ashraf Fahim reports.

Amy R. Connolly
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A new report said for-profit colleges will keep wasting taxpayer dollars if the U.S. Department of Education continues to treat them as "too big to fail."

The Assembly passed a bill 61-33 that requires state agencies to supplement their biennial budgets requests with proposals to maintain the previous year's budget levels and cut its budget by 5…